Art Out-of-Doors 



nioiisly together, and disengaged from encum- 

 bering details, were she able to make pleasure- 

 grounds instead of wild landscapes merely. 

 He w^ould respect, preserve, heighten, accen- 

 tuate, civilize, and yet poetize the natural 

 character of the special site he had chosen, 

 and thus would produce, not only a good 

 w^ork of art but one with a special, local, 

 personal charm, inimitable anywhere else. 



And this is just what has been done, by 

 an artist-in-private, vv^ith the place I know 

 on the shores of Buzzard's Bay. It lies very 

 beautifully at the head of the bay, and its 

 water-front, measured in and out along its 

 little headlands and coves, is some six miles 

 in length. When it came into its present 

 owner's hands it was partly farm-land and 

 partly thick second-growth forest, the woods 

 fringing almost all the little beaches, and, 

 after the lovely local manner, coming down 

 to the very sand with a tangle of shrubs and 

 vines. The house was already built. It is 

 very ugly, and no attempt has been made to 

 mitigate its ughness by planting. But it 

 fortunately stands on just the right spot, and 

 when a better one replaces it, a few native 



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