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"description": "As a young artist, Richards was influenced by John Ruskin\u2019s Modern Painters. Richards\u2019s interest in Ruskin was particularly reflected in the younger artist\u2019s meticulous geological studies made directly from nature. Richards strove for the fidelity to nature that he saw in the Pre-Raphaelite paintings exhibited in a show of British art at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1858. He is best known for his seascapes. Like the Impressionists, he was interested in capturing natural light and reflections on water and wet beaches, but his handling was tighter and his palette more tonal.",
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"citation": "\u201cA Check List. American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 1 (January 1973): 21\u201335.",
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