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Identifier: internationalstu75newy (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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here to his inborn leadership. No one a better chemist has prayed with glory. Anything is cause for him in the mixture of paints, no one a better technician to paint a picture, said one artist as he looked at in the preparation of canvas than he. Recall Carl- May Beechwoods, where, from a matted golden sens preparing six canvases for Weir, and, later red and green ground, rose high branchless trunks calling on him, finding them all hung up un- of ancient trees to vaulted tops and sunlit spaces, touched, and Weirs Old Carlsen, they were too Just as his marines are blue and creamy white beautiful. No one a better draughtsman with at times, so his woodlands are green and creamy the power to see the thing as it really was, and lay brown. They are beautifully drawn. Weirs its spirit in color before you in his own peculiarly favorite criticism of Carlsen was Old Carlsen, emphasized manner, with a refinement that you draw too much. He was well advanced in three hundred s i X JULY 1922 IOHAL
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PORTRAITBV EMIL years before painting supported him. How could he help drawing beautifully when all his life he had spent in drawing, and teaching young folks to draw? I do not think you will object to the drawing—he has sensed the tree formations rather than entangled his design. A little white sea, that washed like a flood ofpearls upon the sand under a creamy gray sky—yes, a little white sea! They tell me that we musthave gaudy red and apple greens and the strife ofpure color, but in his case they would not haveserved. The beauty of Carlsens little gray boat onthe sand will send us out, patient and strong. Asfine as Whistler and more fine in spirit are his littlesketches of the sea. Carlsen is a great admirer of Woodbury andcherishes a little study that Woodbury gave him.He calls it a masterly drawing of wave formation.But Woodbury says to Carlsen, I do not like yourwater, and Carlsen answers, Thats nothing, Ido not like your water. Carlsens marines aredone with a true love. Ca

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