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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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asured.Among these homes are the H. C. Frick residenceon Fifth Avenue, New York; the house of PayneWhitney in New York; the Robert Goelet houseat Goshen, N. Y.; and the home of R. D. Merrillin Seattle, Washington. His one public decora-tion, a series of twenty-seven panels in the res-taurant of the Hotel Washington, Washington,D. G, suffered a like lack of publicity owing toovershadowing political events at the time thehotel was opened to the public. One of the most conspicuous elements in thework of American mural painters is their man-nered style. Their wall or ceiling paintings can beidentified at a glance, so resolutely has each oneof them clung to his convention. It is one of Mr.Twachtmans outstanding qualities that he knowsno conventions in his decorative schemes, as thereproductions of some of them appearing in thesepages show. His murals are conceived either toharmonize with the architectural features of theinterior in which they are emplaced or to suggest ninetv-livti 1922 SB
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some exterior theme linkingitself either with the personali-ties of the home or else with its situation. The three panels for the interior court of thecountry residence of Mr. Robert Goelet atGoshen, N. Y., perfectly illustrate a mural har-monizing with the dominating architectural char-acter of the building. Since it is Italianate inmanner, Mr. Twachtman held to the most ornateperiod of Renaissance in his general scheme, whichrepresents the visit of a distinguished personage tothe palazzo of a noble bordering on the sea. Theold marble walls of the water-gate, at which thevisitor has disembarked, furnish one of the domi-nating notes in the color scheme, the others beingfound in the red sail of the ship, the great bannerof deep red embroidered with the coat-of-arms ofthe host, the gorgeous Renaissance costumes ofthe nobleman, his wife and the people of his suite. From such glowing and varied hues Mr.Twachtman has departed completely in the twopanels in the home of Mr. R. D. Merrill in

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