Identifier: internationalstu10newy08 (find matches)
Title: International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York. John Lane Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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re is as well a smallbiographical notice of each artist. There have beenseveral exhibitions at these galleries this winter of the work of menfamous for their etch-ing, engraving or mez-zotinting, and in manyinstances rare printshave been show^n, ar-ranged in a chrono-logical order, so thatthe displays were ofthe highest educationalinterest and value. Thework of the earlv mas-ters received consider-able attention while, ofcourse, the modernswere not neglected. Itis proposed to issue, asa supplement to thiscatalogue, what will becalled The Print Col-lectors Bulletin, a workthat again will be of theutmost value to the col-lector, in which will be Hsted the etchings of .suchmasters as Bracquemond, Buhot, Haden, Jacque, LaLanne, Legros, Meryon, Pennell, Whistler and Zorn,with others, and there will be a record of authenticprices, information worth preserving. A collectionof Mr. Pennells work is hung in these galleries, hisFrench cathedrals particularly attracting attention. BY DOUGLAS VOLK
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Courtesy oj Frederick Keppel &- Co. WEST FRONT ROUEN CATHEDRAL BY JOSEPH PENNELL CXIV In the Galleries After a busy seasonand a public sale, withmany special exhibitionsin the interval, theOehme Galleries, No.384 Fifth Avenue, cornerof Thirty-second Street,have settled down to therepose of the springtime,and a really beautifulexample of the work ofCorot may be seen onan easel. It is calledThe Bathers and is amodest-sized canvas, ofa stream by the side ofsome trees, in the waterbeing some nude figuresof women. It is an ex-quisite harmony of tone,of the famous Corot grayquality, the whole en-veloped in an opalescent scheme of color so characteristic of the great master.While not all the Corots that come to this countryare pure gold, this particular picture is a gem inits way and worthy the most careful examina-tion. And there is the art wonder of the age, thevenerable Frenchman Harpignies, working awayas he nears four score and ten! He is representedwith one of his be.st efforts, call

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