with misty spring moonlight upon the wilderness of roofs
and the gleaming course of the river. Holmboe is a very
prolific artist. He has also been active as an illustrator. In
sketches for covers and title pages, for book-bindings and
tapestries he has demonstrated an inexhaustible and fluent
gift for decorative composition.

Lars Jorde, too, who was born in 1865, is most properly
to be placed in this transitional period. His Christmas
Festival, with the brilliantly illuminated farmhouse and the
sleighs waiting in the moonlight, now hangs in the National
Gallery. He associated himself with the group which went
to Denmark and Italy, and there he received lasting im-
pressions from foreign and from ancient art. Since that
time he has lived at Lillehammer, and has dedicated his
brush to the portrayal of nature in the Uplands of Norway,
winter and spring, now in the spirit of Collett and now in
the vein of younger contemporaries.

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