The International Studio Volume 53 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ... for the long French windows in front are balanced by the same openings opposite. The book room is next the drawing-room and as many-windowed as if built in the time of Louis XIV. From this library the sun room opens--all glass, with doors on the garden side opening, too, onto the immense porch. The garden is entirely in keeping with the chateau. There is a stretch of green in the centre space, with a latticed tea house at the end. and on either side of the green masses of flowers with high trees behind the tea house. The rear of the house is covered with green lattice work, to which clings Japanese ivy, spattering with green the white that shows between. A' 'ERICAN SOCIETY OF MINIATURE PAINTERS The Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently given official recognition to the serious standing of the American Society of Miniature Painters by purchasing five works by prominent members for its permanent collection. It is the first time in the history of the Central Park institution that such a purchase has been made, and all the more satisfactory in view of the higher standards the Museum is setting for itself, and, further, in view of its recent important acquisitions. The five miniatures include the delightful portrait of a child by Lucia Fairchild Fuller, president of the Miniature Society; Laura Coombs Hills' portrait of Persis Blair; Helen M. Turner's portrait of a young woman; Alice Beckington's portrait of her mother, and Margaret Foote Hawley's likeness of Alexander Petrunkevitch, all performances of the highest order, representing the last word in American miniature achievement. Having made this start, it is fair to presume additions will be made from time to time, but these five ivories form the nucleus of what should in time become a noteworthy represen...