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the light skies; beginning with blueish grey and yellowish green in the early morning, in which the Sun, appeared over the pale greyblue mountain mass, beyond a fiery yellow cloud (the sky though pale having considerable tone); the general whiteblue hues and somber light tones of dawn, before sunrise, over grey houses, hills, canals, railroads, chimneys, trees: the white dew on roofs and grass; the brilliant yellow light on red walls, factory windows, waterfalls of the Rockaway River; the [[underlined]] pictorial combinations, in proportioned masses of houses, trees and mountains, in contrasts of tone and colors of rose, yellow, and dark blues. A portrait, comparable to a landscape [[/underlined]] brings in a logical-unity the masses of each feature of face, dress, hands. It is best not surrounded with too many things of room or scene, its large proportion in the frame being the more powerful impression. Similarly: large features in the foreground, and a near background, as here, make [[underlined]] impressive scenes by proportion [[/underlined]], and strong contrast of tone; at a greater distance the hills and villages are usually uninteresting. Later on the most brilliant blues on the water from palest greenishblue to pure strong blue, to the deepest indigo. Looking [[underlined]] South [[/underlined]] over the Canal at 4.PM the yellowwhite Sun going down slowly, the water is at my feet intensely black, then green, then wonderful deep blue at the other bank, where yellowwhite ducks play on the canal. The brilliant yellow light, with this

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