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

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Text Appearing Before Image: marked is that influence canbe noted again in the OldMan Sitting by a Hill whomight never have moved out ofsight of a mountain village inSpain. The immobility of peas-ant age, the keen eyes of moun-tain folk, the decent tidiness ofhis attire, the grip of the handson top of his stick, all thesepersonal attributes are notedand set down in terms thatshow how thoroughly the artistfelt and understood what hewas painting. But still higher flights in hisrising power are reached in theportrait of Christine Hughes.It is one of the mysteries of therecurrence of marked nationaltypes that this American girl ofIrish descent should so stronglyresemble the faces we see in theportraits of Diirer and Holbein.But it is much more interestingto note how the artist, whosework in the past has been toocommonly associated with quitea n othertradition, SENORA GARCIABY RANDALL DAVEY Jijty- eight MARCH 9 2 2 mm

Text Appearing After Image: my house precision of their gradations, the dis- B1 R WDALl. DAVEY should have risen to the unformed sim-plicity of his subjects character and similar tactile qualities so firmly feltrepresented it with the equally direct simplicity of all these make for a work that is in the front rankthe early German school to which he never was of flower painting. Sheer simplicity was armed atreputed to be devoted. To that form of realism he in another of these canvases, garden flowers in ahas added the sophistication of a later day in his lustrous black potterj bowl, and it is arrived attreatment of the fabrics of his subjects blouse by a means as direct as the intention,and the old Spanish chair in which she sits. In Of the world he lived in during the last threethis portrait Mr. Daveys color reaches a height of years the visitor has notations in the canvasesbrilliancy that is only equalled by the ringing entitled Mj House and Bulls. Interest in thenotes he achieves in his resplendent flower piec

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