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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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even say in a spirit ofsolemnity. This greatcanvas is truly lyricalin its implications of the gathering shadows ofthe day that draws to its close and of the lifethat also approaches its term; and this peculiarvein of lyricism has perhaps never been sobeautifully wrought in pictorial art by anyother American painter. The picture was re-cently purchased byMessrs. R. C. & N. M.Vose, of Boston, whohave for many yearsspecialized in Fullersworks, and have boughtand sold many of hisfinest things; and bythem sold to a Chicagocollector for a price thatranks among the high-est ever obtained foran American picture.It will be recalledthat the Voses soldFedalma from one oftheir recent exhibitions;and it is of interest toknow that it has sincethen changed hands at$40,000. They alsosold Old Age to theCity Art Museum of two seventy JULY 1922 inceRi
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St. Louis; The Trial of the SalemWitches to the Art Institute ofChicago; the Girl Driving Turkeys to theWorcester Art Museum, and Gold and OldLace to the Butler Art Institute, Youngstown,Ohio. Ideal Head was sold in Pittsburgh bythe Voses. It is not often that a firm of picturedealers has the privilege of placing so many GIRL DRIVING TURKEYSBY GEORGE FULLER picture was a gift to the Museum ofFine Arts from a group of contribu-tors, in i88-\ The museum also owns TheDandelion Girl, painted in 18—; it shows in ameadow a barefoot girl standing in profile, at theright, blowing the seeds from a dandelion in herlelt hand. In her other hand she holds a switch.A cow is grazing near her, at the right, and admirable examples of a great painters work in other cattle are seen farther away at the left the public galleries of his country. background. This canvas was a gift from Dr. The last work fin- and Mrs. George Faulk- ished by Fuller, and the ner, through the trus- only nude figure by tees of

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