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| | Art/Museums: Louis Michel Eilshemius at the National Academy of Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The nudes are amusing but slight and the best of these predominantly green and yellow paintings often have them floating in air, an image first employed by Arthur B. Davies a few years before Eilshemius started painting them. |
 | | While the catalogue, entitled "Louis Michel Eilshemius, An Independent Spirit," correctly emphasizes the influence of Corot, the Barbizon painter, on Eilshemius as witnessed by some of his very lyrical and impressive landscapes, it is really with Ryder that he should be compared. |
 | | "Village Near Delaware Water Gap," by Louis Michel Eilshemius, oil on canvas, 25 by 29 7/8 inches, 1896, collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. |
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