Word: colored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wonderful pictorial memory and there was scarce a tree or bush or rambling brook in the neighborhood that he could not sketch while in his studio. His work was not the result of observation alone, but modelled much after the Dutch school. His early landscapes are of a reddish color, usually contain a gnarled oak, a girl and a boy, or some cattle, and are carefully worked out in detail...
Reynolds's greatness lies in the way he observed the colors of nature and imparted them to canvas. Somewhat deficient in draughtsmanship, often excelled by Romney in rendering the beauty of a woman's face, but combining the color of Titian, the grace of Corregio, the depth of Rembrandt, Sir Joshua Reynolds stands unrivalled and alone...
...Noyes Bros., Cor. Washington and Summer streets, Boston, have made special for Harvard men, for the Harvard and Yale game, "of which Harvard are sure winners this year," a very attractive flag or banner, 3-4 of a yard long, 1-2 a yard wide, in the Harvard crimson color, with the letter "H" mounted on a four-foot staff, which is also in the Harvard color, the whole thing being most attractive and serviceable, which they shall retail at 25 cents each...
...tickets this year are in a number of respects different from those of last year. They have the same steel plate engraving on the back as last year, but the color has been changed and the workmanship is better. The object of this engraving is to prevent counterfeiting, yet even this safeguard has not prevented some counterfeiting in the past. The face of the tickets is quite different. For one thing, the letters and numbers of the sections, rows and seats are made much more prominent. Applications are now beginning to come in fast...
...sides of continents. In just the same way, as the range of our study of literature widens, and the terra incognita diminishes to a few obscure points here and there, we are enabled to construct a tolerably perfect map of the globe of intellectual achievement and adventure and to color its boundaries, if only theoretically, yet with some approach to accuracy in the distinction of certain primary characteristics. In these lectures, it has been my desire, however inadequately in the nature of things I have been able to fulfil it, to keep these lines of psychical and aesthetic distinction more...