File:Whistler's pastels - and other modern profiles - by A. E. Gallatin. (1913) (14784315792).jpg

Identifier: whipast00gall (find matches)
Title: Whistler's pastels : and other modern profiles / by A. E. Gallatin.
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Gallatin, A. E.
Subjects: Pastel Drawing
Publisher: John Lane Company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
his subjeft have been seized uponand emphasized: with the fewest possiblestrokes of his pencil, every line countingand every line being essential. Althoughthe final drawing has probably been exe-cuted in a very short time, it is, never-theless, the outcome of much delibera-tion, the subje6l having been carefullystudied beforehand and many preliminarysketches made. Of the portrait charge of the Earl ofChesterfield, standing by the side of abust of his famous ancestor, here repro-duced, the artist writes that he drewthe cravette and the buttonhole first ofall, and the rest was exhaled corollarilyfrom themM This pencil drawing, withits delegable touches of water-colour,illustrates very well the points made by C 48 )L. Raven-Hill in a preface to a collec-tion ofMaxs caricatures: His instinilfor style and character is wonderful. Hegives you a savage epitome of a mansexterior, and through that, the quintes-sence of the man himself. He is a psycho-logist in drawing if ever there was one. nl
Text Appearing After Image:
L^ **MAX Lord Chesteijield Conserving the Family Traditions THE PAINTINGS OFFREDERICK C. FRIESEKE THE PAINTINGS OFFREDERICK C. FRIESEKE FREDERICK Carl Frieseke is anAmerican,—he was born in Michi-gan in 1874, and studied at the Art Insti-tute of Chicago,—but not until January,1912, did New York get an opportunityto view an individual exhibition of hispaintings. In Europe the work of Frieseke isfamiliar to visitors of the Salon des BeauxArts, the biennial exhibitions of modernart at Venice, and of other exhibitions,while the Luxembourg has purchasedone of his paintings, as have galleries atVienna, Odessa and Venice. Since he reached his twenty-fifth yearthe artist has ele6led to live in France,spending his summers at a delightful littleplace in the country, with brilliant and c 52: luxuriant gardens. This is where the ma-jority of his paintings have been produced. The colle6lion of Friesekes canvasesshown in New York, which compriseda group of seventeen pi6lures, was quiterepresent

Note About Images