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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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t of both she has distinguishedherself as a true artist. Later, when Mrs. Ripley went abroad, study-ing the work of the worlds greatest sculptors,from the Greek primitives down through the ages,with an open mind and sincere admiration, shenevertheless found nothing that changed her viewsone whit with regard to her own expression. Theprimitives had always appealed to her and themore opportunity she had to study them, the morewas she enthralled by their purity, sentiment,depth of feeling and directness. The Byzantine,early Italian, Greek, Gothic, Assyrian, Etruscan,Persian and Egyptian artists all have had theirplace in her development, yet while one is thrilledand puzzled by the atmosphere her work exhales,the student must at length, in summing up her art,declare that its poignant feature lies in the factthat beyond all influence of her studies of greatmen, there is such a personal note, such rareindividuality, intensity offeeling and creative force MEDITATION MARCH I O 2 2 inceRDAr i.
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that it is to Lucy Perkins STUDY n- I > Kipley s own artistic genius,her perseverance and her keen intelligence andgreat emotional being that he must pay homage. While in Paris Mrs. Ripley exhibited herSeated Woman at the Societe des Beaux Arts.It was this work that so interested Rodin that herecommended it for exhibition, and which alsomade her eligible to him to become his pupil.When she returned to America she held an exhibi-tion at her studio, which when brought to theattention of Stanford White immediately claimedhis interest. He recommended her garden sculp-ture for various fine estates and soon Mrs. E. H.Harriman, Mrs. Charles Cary Rumsey, Mrs.Payne Whitney, Mr. Clarence Hay, Mrs. ArthurCurtis James and Mrs. Walter Bliss became herpatrons. Mr. White purchased one of her wellheads, conceived in Venice, for his country homeat St. James, Long Island. Mrs. Ripleys advancement to the place ot dis-tinction she now holds has been therefore a slowand natural growth from simple begin

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