Identifier: internationalstu38newy (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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true style, at once full of taste and logical.But his interest was centred, I should say exclusively,in the l)eauty of his interpretation The subjectas such had no real claim ujx)n him. Thus ithap;)ens that his etchings are essentially thesame, whether he works in Venice, or in Brussels,or in London. Mr. Pennells convention of black-and-white for architecture is, to my taste, just asl>eautiful as that of Whistler. But over and abovethat, he jxjssesses an extraordinary power ofgnisping the ;)ossibilities of subject. How intensely.Spanish are his Toledo plates, and how clearly dothey bring to light the very essence of theircharacter,—if we may sjxak of a building or of aview as ;K)sse.ssing character! That he has therefined sense of the poet to see l)eauty, where•mlinary mortals cxinnot jK-netrate l)eyond thecommonpKice, is a gift by itself. I fcvl xs if we were wonderfully indebted to Mr.Pennell for our capabilities of seeing, of enjoying,with these new plates. Hans W. Singer. J
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PALISADES AND PALACES, NEWYORK. BY JOSEPH PENNELL.

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