Identifier: catpaint00worc (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of paintings and drawings.
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Art Museum
Subjects: Art Catalogs
Publisher: Worchester, Massachusetts
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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either of these men, it isone of the best examples of his work. The portrait is decorative and imposing. The glisteninggrey silk dress with black lacing over the iichu finds an echo inthe ribbon of the white cap tied in a bow under the chin. TheCountess holds a book with a red cover. In the backgroundis a red curtain partly in shadow and similar in tone to the book. Oil on canvas. 50 inches by 40 inches 8s
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MOTHER AND CHILDSIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P. R. A. 86 SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P. R. A. Enelish, 1723-1792MOTHER AND CHILD The art of Sir Joshua Reynolds can neither be called sugges-tive nor subjective. This is not due to any lack of imagination.It is due chiefly to the fact that his practical nature gave littleopportunity for any temperamental adventures, without whichthe subtle and unique in art do not happen. An intellect richlyimbued with the principles of Italian and Dutch art is somewhatof an obstacle to free expression. Furthermore, sublety is oftenerthe result of a close study of nature than of an extensive researchinto methods of painting. The idea of this picture is conveyed in a suggestive way.Although it is evidently an unfinished sketch, it has a senseof completeness. The grouping is graceful and enhanced bysubtlety of line. \ery little pigment has been used, and withthe exception of the heads and the folds of drapery, the canvashas been painted, or rather tinted, with oil slight

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