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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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the close of the season, comesthe Thomas Sully memorial exhibition at thePennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The scopeof the exhibition is shown by the fact that fullytwo hundred and thirty-five of his most famouspaintings have been assembled. Sully was before all else a portrait painter. Inhis recent biography by Edward Biddle andMantel Fielding, the great majority of the 2,63) Thomas Sullys beauti-ful art seen in mem-orial exhibition oj 235o/ his paintings ■ ■ by EDITH W POWELL can ises listed arc found tii beportraits. In thi enl ex- lnbil inn, the only work w Inch isnut a pm t rail or a heai 11 >l someill . npt ion is Musidora, lentby the Metropolitan \1 useum,which was not original withSully, but a copj ol a painting by Benjamin Wethaving a nude figure as Us subject. At the time that Sully was starting on hiscareer, Gilbert Stuart was the greatest figure inAmerican art. An interesting anecdote is relatedof the first meeting of the two in (807, when the \ 011 n ger pa inter
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si I 1 PORTRAITBY THOMAS SCLL1 was given an oppor-tunity to bringsome of his can-\ ases tn the masterfor c r i t1c 1 s m .Sully was filled withapprehension, un-til, finally, Stuartsaid, Keep whatyou have and getwhat you can.Keeping this criti-cism in mind, it isinteresting to lookover the great arrayof portraits thatgaze from theirframes on wall alterwall of the Penn-s\ (vania Academy.It will be seen thateven his earliestpaintings were dis-tinguished by pene-tration into char-acter and skillfultechnique, so that Stuart was morethan instilled in telling the \artist to keep what he had. At every turn oneis arrested by the compelling quality ol Ins pr<tation of personality. I le gives us a glimpse intothe very heart of his subject in countless instaLook at the twinkle in that mischievous neye. Heres a spirited and imperiousdame of high degree, that. There is tininstant action. What a line, km. Ifnoted physicians! How appraising is the glanceof that elderlj Quakeress! And Im all his we

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