Excerpt from Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Important Works by George Inness, Alexander Wyant, Ralph Blakelock: Held at the Chicago Galleries of Moulton and Ricketts, March Tenth to March Twenty-Second, 1913Freedom! Was ever man more free than he? Can we look, unmoved, with this great doctrine in our hearts, at a storm swept canvas of his? Does he not bend the trees to his will and ¿ing vast curtains of cloud across a scene which but a moment later he makes to glow with the warmth and glory of sunshine?A Spiritualist? Yes, and sometimes a Spiritist, because he was always an investigator. Why else did he spend long days and destroy picture upon picture to verify for himself the theory he had adduced, that the greatness of color must be found in the middle tone?That he could not for long conform to any particular creed or method of religion was because of his impatience with restraint. Nor was he always con sistent. What emotional artist ever is?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.