Identifier: internationalstu70newy (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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ieut.-Col.Phillippe B. Varilla, by Miss MalvinaHoffmann; of General George W. Goethals,by Mr. Sigurd Neandross; and of Mrs.Nicholas Biddle, by Dr. R. Tait McKenzie;good nudes in Miss Nancy Coonsmans fountain group. Frogs and Girls, and The Pigeon Girl, by Mr. Brenda Putnam; anda capital bit of animal work in Miss Laura Gardin Frasers Snuff. 000 Eugene Castello TORONTO.—The forty-first exhibi-tion of the Royal Canadian Academy at the Art Gallery was distinctly richerthan its predecessor here some two yearsago. It contained four large canvasespainted for the Canadian War Memorials,and had also a greater variety of portraitand figure work than usual. The work ofyounger contributors was fairly progres-sive in character, and held its own wellwith the older and more conventional pic-tures. 0 0 0 0 0The four war canvases are by J. W.Beatty, Maurice CuUen, k. Y. Jackson,and F. H. Varley. In his Huy, on theMeuse, Belgium, Maurice Cullen hasfrankly abandoned the strict theme of war 77 STUDIO-TALK
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FROGS AND GIRLS (FOUNTAIN GROUP) BY NANCY COONSMAN (Pennsylvania Academy) for a spacious wintry perspective of sun and snow across leagues of air ; A. Y.Jacksons Olympic in Halifax Harbour is an interesting experiment in explicit de-sign and detail on the part of one who has78 wellnigh perfected himself in the art of reticent interpretation, as in his deeply satisfying Ships entering Halifax Harbour ;here is shown a day of thawing snow among mean shacks by the waterside with the quiet procession of ships beyond, the realJackson. F. H. Varleys Prisoners is quiteworthy of being ranked with the two greatwar pictures that he has already painted.The bedraggled prisoners are seen stum-bling listlessly past a row of broken androtting tree-stumps ; one cannot but thinkit unlikely that the tragic, mutilated treesof the Flanders front have been turnedto such account by any other artist.Varleys extraordinary gain in ower is themost striking single fact in Canadian artat the present moment. a a 0 Portra

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