The International Studio Volume 62 (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. 1917 Excerpt: ...of Spanish blood. He began to use his pencils and brushes almost as soon as he was able to hold them, and when in 1902 he went abroad to study, his individuality as a painter was already marked. After an academic year at Munich he went to Paris; there his pictures were exhibited at the Salon; there he received recognition, and there, too, he would probably have remained had not the waves of war sent him back to his native land. Since his return he has done some of his finest work in painting American, particularly New York and Chicago, scenes. His pictures have been exhibited at Indianapolis, where the discerning ones were quick to recognize his genius. He has chosen a studio on Twenty-third Street, where he satisfies the great passion of his life--which is work. HE WEIRDEST SCULPTURED LION IN CAPTIVITY BY FRANK OWEN PAYNE As onE enters the grand loggia of the Metropolitan Museum of Art a vast array of fragments of classic sculpture is revealed to the eye. Some of these fragments are of archaic Greek, Roman or Etruscan workmanship. Others represent periods of Hellenic and Graeco-Roman art dating from the Sixth Century B.C. to the Fourth Century A.D. Gods and goddesses, demi-gods and heroes, all in various degrees of dilapidation, may be seen, some of which, in spite of their fragmentary state, betray in curve of line and delicacy of proportion a beauty which not all the havoc of time has been able to eflace. Indeed, one is constrained to marvel at the beauty which must have been theirs when they were fresh from the sculptor's hand, since after all these centuries they still retain so much that is worthy of our admiration. Not all these sculptures are things of beauty, however. Many of them are not and never were beautiful. Moreover, they sadly lack th...