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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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st work fin- and Mrs. George Faulk- ished by Fuller, and the ner, through the trus- only nude figure by tees of Faulkner Hos- him, is the Arethusa, pital, in 1911. The in the permanent col- third Fuller possessed lection of the Museum by the museum is a of Fine Arts, Boston. portrait of a boy, given The nymph reclines on * by Edward W. Hooper, the ground, her head to in 1885. the left, leaning on her I The more we at- right arm; beside her is Bfc^l tempt to compare Ful- a spring, into which she ■- 1 ■ Iers paintings with is dipping her left hand. S those of other American Behind her arc large figure painters, not only trees. Arethusa was the iL those who were hi nereid who changed temporaries, bul herself into a fountain k those of earlier in a vain effort to es- JL of latei cape the importunities W larger his fif of her lover Alpheus, Wfl jj \- who forthwith became Jf* \ ;hl a river, as related in W\ ^^fu, Shelleys poem. The 1 * 7J^^™1 - JULY 1922 (no (tffiin -one inceRnAcionAL
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wrong place to ascribe his superi-ority to his virtuosity as a crafts-man. Tlic most that can honestlybe said for him as a technician issheer will power and the intensityto express himself, hewas, in perhaps a half-dozen iiF his chief figurepieces, able to accom-plish his purpose. Butit would be beyond thejustifiable limits ofcriticism to assume thathe would have been agreater artist had hebeen more thoroughlytrained and disciplinedin the practice of hisera It. That is some-thing one has no righteven to guess at There was never apainter, I suppose, morecloselj identified withhis work than Fuller.He was the wmk. andthe work was him, in avery exceptional de-gree. It is idle to find HOEING TOliA coBY GEORGE FCI I III THE TRIAL OF THE SALEM WITCHESBY GEORGE FULLER (Copyright, Art Institute ol Chicago) fault with a man who was soevidently born to do a thing ina given way. Perhaps it is butthat, through little more and little else than this to be whatof his desire we call inspired. Fuller,

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