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Identifier: internationalstu60newy (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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cts,such as one finds in the productions of the youngerand more aggressive landscapists of to-day, he isessentially a modern who, though ready to learnfrom the past, is continually looking forward. Asincere love of and reverence for Nature arerevealed in his drawings, conveying the impressionthat he is in complete sympathy with his subject;and it is this spirit which pervades and beautifieshis work. In his endeavours to interpret thevarious manifestations of Nature he realises whatConstable meant when he said that the landscape-painter who does not make his skies a verymaterial part of his composition neglects to availhimself of one of his greatest aids. Indeed, histreatment of cloud effects is the dominatingfeature of many of his most successful drawings,as will be seen from those examples which arereproduced here, and in devoting himself soassiduously to the study of this important phaseof landscape-painting he increases the artisticsignificance of his work. \l. (;. IIALTON. = ■Si
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Tlie ILtellings of Robert Spciice, R.Il. T 111-: KICIIINGSSrENCli. R.E. OF ROBERT TiiK seventeenth century was a stirringand picturesciue age in English history- ; it was ai>criod that has touched the imagination of severalof her modern artists, and amongst others it hasappjaled very closely to Robert Spence, one ofth-.- I>est of living English etchers of genre. A(Joak-jr by ancestry and birth, he not unnaturallyhis been keenly interested in the sect which sprangup in thL- middle of the seventeenth century inEngland. And it is Cieorge Fox as the founderof Quakerism, and his doings as related in hisJournal, that have attracted Mr. Spence stronglyand furnished him with many motives for hisplates. Though other subjects have appealed tohim from lime to time, namely scenes from earlyNorthumbrian history, the \Vagnerian musicaldramas, and occasionally the modern life of to-day, he has more often returned to his favouriteperiod, the seventeenth-century life of Englandor Holland. But th

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