She also contributed over 450 separate illustrations in periodicals, including a color cover for Good Housekeeping on every issue for fifteen consecutive years. ... (29) In 1905, Smith made twelve full-page color illustrations for Robert Louis Stevenson's classic book of poems. ... Hedid contained: "ten full-page colorplates, a color pictoral wrapper, a color insert on the cover, pictoral end papers, and colored line drawings throughout the book. Smith's paintings for Heidi are quite unique in their use of coloration, with many shades of purple, green, and orange, giving an ...

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With its delicate veils of color, the sea and shore are conveyed through subdued horizontal bands of thinly applied paint and are seen through an obscuring screen of rain and mist. ... Its pale shades of blue, white, green and purple were perfectly juxtaposed to the ocean's muted blues, greens, and browns. ...

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From the colonial period in North America to the peculiar American painting, the visual arts in the United States experienced several phases, inspired by the European sense of art. In search of fulfillment of need for a history, many artists managed to create their own sense of art although inspired...

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