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
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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Pholugraph by Cur/is Veil PORTRAIT: SISTP:RS HY JOHN W. ALEXANDKR
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Plw/itgraph hy Curlis fiell PORTRAIT OF MRS. R. BY JOHN W. ALEXANDER.R John IV. Alexander or woman, so the personage approximates his Mr. Alexanders work, ^o one seems to treat aidea of the composition, and who shall complain ? gown just as he does, no one seems to get quite theBut your portrait painter may not vary perceptibly postures he evolves for h.s women, without affecta-from his theme without grave complications. He tion and without strammg. Take his Pot o) BasU.must satisfy sitter, familv, friends, even acquaint- It isaharmonyof line, a poem of chiaroscuro, athmgances, and do one work after another whether the of rare invention. No one had previously conceivedsitter be congenial or no, whether the sitter be a Pandora such as that of Mr. Alexander s, with itspaintable or the reverse, and he must draw and mysterious effect of light and shade its superbconstruct, construct and draw, and be sure of his womanhood, the physical combined with theresult-of a certain result at anv rate

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