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Alternately realistic and semiabstract, the paintings dance with color, darken or eliminate it, culminating in the all-white “Line and Curve” of 1927, whose veillike layers might be a close-up of a dress.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2017

The sun had ripped away the mists that, in the mountains, always hang damp and veillike between gray dawning and colorful day.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh