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ied realism" in details. Adopting techniques he learned as a photographer, he says, “I keep my center of interest in sharp focus with a shallow depth of field but I paint the background in soft focus.”
The view of Old Rag Landscape, for instance, clearly is impressionistic in its “soft focus" treatment of the subject matter, vet it also is clearly sharp in its details such as in the house in the foreground. His palette is not unlike the artists of the well-known Barbizon school of impressionists at the
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