Excerpt from Catalogue of an Exhibition of Landscape Etchings: With an Introduction by Carl Zigrosser; December 7th to 30th, 1916
Windmill Hill, No. I. (h. No. 163) Signed in pencil Seymour Haden. Fine impres sion, from the Evans collection.
Windmill Hill is a high common, near Swanage, which has long served as a landmark for vessels at sea.
What, then, is the amount and kind of previous know ledge and skill required by the etcher It is an innate artistic spirit without which all the study in the world is useless. It is the knowledge which is acquired by a life of devotion to what is true and beautiful - by the daily and hourly habit of weighing of what we see in nature, and the thinking of how it should be represented in art; the habit, in a word, of constant observation, and the experience that springs from that habit. It is the skill of the analyst and the synthesist - the skill to combine and the skill to separate - to compound and to simplify - to detach plane from plane - to fuse detail into mass to subordinate definition to space, distance, light, and air. Finally, it is the acumen to perceive the near relation ship that expression bears to form, and the skill to draw them - not separately, but together.
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