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Identifier: internationalstu38newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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improvement if thetotal number of works includedwere reduced by lowering the quotaof each member from three to two,or perhaps a better arrangementstill would be to give the committeepower to reject one or even two outof any three works sent in—a planwhich would enable them to elim-inate a large proportion of thefeeble achievements whose presenceis very prejudicial to the reallymeritorious work. HEPTU BIDDING FAREWELI, TO THE CITY OF OBB, BY JOHN DUNCAN (See Edinburgh Studio- Talk) At the Baillie Gallery the water-colour drawings by Mr. T. L.Shoosmith, whose work we haveoften admired, while marking furtherdevelopment in his interestingtalent, showed him lapsing into anexaggeration of colour, which, gayand at first sight sometimes effec-tive, was there at the expense of thetruer observation through whichnature yields to the landscapepainter qualities newer than anyto be made by ingenuity of palette—qualities based upon the indivi-dual vision, ensuring individuality. 221 studio- Talk
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highland cattle drinking BY ANDREW DOUGLAS EDINBURGH.—The Society of ScottishArtists Exhibition, which was opened inthe Royal Scottish Academy Galleries atthe end of June, is one of the mostinteresting collections that has been brought to-gether by this association of the younger painters.In respect of the loan work, the contributions bythose who are now more identified with theAcademy than with the Society in whose originand development they took a leading part, or thepictures by the younger men to whom the associa-tion means everything in corporate life, the exhi-bition has reached a higher artistic level than hasprobably been attained at any of the fourteenprevious shows. Of the loan work exceptional interest attachesto the portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn of littleWilliam Sinclair, lent by the Archdeacon ofLondon. It is the nude figure of a boy with curlygolden hair, set against a crimson curtain back-ground, the rich colour of which is reflected in thewarm flesh-tones of the figur

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