House and Garden 
GENERAL VIEW SHOWING FRONT ENTRANCE 
azalea, the primula, the rhododendron, the lilac or 
some of the vegetables, the cahhage, the egg-plant, 
the melon, also take hshes, mackerel and mullets. 
Sumptuous color lurks in all of these tor the artist to 
discover and apply. 
Speaking of landscape painters, my host says: 
“A picture is a 
memorandum of a 
conception of a 
thought or ot an 
idea. Art being a 
matter ot fine teel- 
ins — as Tolstoi 
^ , ,,, 
heautitully puts^it 
—and that is per¬ 
haps the most suc¬ 
cessful painting 
which IS, it possi¬ 
ble, completed in 
one day. Let the 
painter begin early, 
work fast, and thus 
preserve his first 
conception. ” 
Speaking of the 
o;i‘eat colorists; 
O 
“I'he older the 
man gets the 
greater his ditficulty to maintain his color balance, 
the values being hard to hold. Look at Corot and 
his dream pictures. At Turner and his wonderful 
landscapes. At Inness and his pastoral scenes. 
Yes—and that clever La Large, he added the pen 
to the brush. His writing is fine. I enjoy it 
immensely. ” 
As I look at this 
beautiful place 1 
feel that here is a 
valuable note to 
craftsmen, — be 
they painters, poets 
or writers — that of 
being frankly per¬ 
sonal. This home 
on Long I sland 
grew out of the 
needs of the case, 
adjusted repeat¬ 
edly to meet chang¬ 
ing c o n d i t ions. 
The house was not 
built at one time 
and the garden was 
not laid out at one 
time, but that it 
hangs together so 
A SECOND VIEW OF UPPER PERGOLA 
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