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No doubt that in the common use of the word it was a more piduresque prospect they looked upon. Yet, in another sense, it was far less so. Certainly it had nothing of the unique flavor the present prosped possesses, nothing of the jumbled outlines, the rich and shifting play of light and shade, the strongly contrasted planes of perspeftive, the suggestiveness which comes from any con- c 8 : ^ T)EFINITIO^ OF TICTU1{ESQU8 templation of the piled-up evidences of man's energy. Here is a composition... as casual and chaotic as anything on Lower Manhattan Island; no less surely did this city as we see it here "just grow. " It is smooched with the smoke of modern in- dustrialism, and does not tell in quite the hard sea light which so often beats pitilessly on New York. It is not nearly so im- mense, and obviously no architeds concerned themselves with the effort to make these factories beautiful, or even dignified. Yet the hand of the etcher twitches for his needle, the artist sees the sun smite the tall buildings in the middle distance into towers of high light and he rejoices, even the layman pauses to watch the dark smoke plume cast a shadow over the oily river or blur the outline of a factory roof, and to let his eyes wander to the distant line of dreaming hills.
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