semipagoda-like

Updated: May 11, 2025

Bierstadt is a noble painter, and so is Thomas Moran. There are half a hundred men who are fine painters, but half a thousand men and women who think they are artistic but who are not. Americans have developed no individual architecture. You see semipagoda-like effects in the East, and old English houses in the South. They steal the latter and call them Colonial.

- As A Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home