International studio . BELGIUM—FRONT VIEW BY ROBERT P. BAKER drawn and modelled. When but a boy of tenhe studied at the Lambeth School of Art (Lon-don), continuing at the City and Guilds TechnicalInstitute. Later he expended five years at theRoyal Academy Schools. His art training nevercost him a penm—prizes, medals and scholarshipshaving deluged him from the start. At the ageof twenty-one he assisted Adrian Jones of Chelsea,London, on the huge Quadriga which now sur-mounts the famous arch at Hyde Park Corner, The principal figures in the composition are wellover life-size and with Michelangel
International studio . BELGIUM—FRONT VIEW BY ROBERT P. BAKER drawn and modelled. When but a boy of tenhe studied at the Lambeth School of Art (Lon-don), continuing at the City and Guilds TechnicalInstitute. Later he expended five years at theRoyal Academy Schools. His art training nevercost him a penm—prizes, medals and scholarshipshaving deluged him from the start. At the ageof twenty-one he assisted Adrian Jones of Chelsea,London, on the huge Quadriga which now sur-mounts the famous arch at Hyde Park Corner, The principal figures in the composition are wellover life-size and with Michelangelesque prece-dent are part and parcel of the earth, whilsta feeling of distance is cleverly evoked by manyauxiliary forms in low relief. We see, in fact,high and low relief and much that is three partsin the round. It is an epitome of the age-longstruggle to emerge from the beast and attain theheights. The figures unfold in the earth likethe petals of a bursting bud. The flow of line. -- <r m TWO DRAWINGS FROM SKETCHES IN POETRY, PROSE, PAINT AND PENCIL,BY JAMES H. WORTHINGTON AND ROBERT P. BAKER /;/ a Boston Studio is exquisite, leading always upward; all is intenseand dramatic. It must not be supposed for amoment that no other artist has attempted sim-ilar flights of imagination. Many will recallBareaus dream of Victor Hugo at the PetitPalais. Paris, but here is no background of Jeff Lambeaux, the famous Belgiansculptor, executed Passions Humaines in a similarvein but, we think, less successfully. Robert is fortunate in his ability to devote himselfentirely to idealistic sculpture. All true sculptorswould do the same if it were feasible. Unfor-tunately, commissions are scarce and small, fewarchitects or city fathers having any orders tobestow. It follows that the average sculptor isperforce driven to execute petty statuary, or-namental fountains, and family portraits. Of the land of his birth Baker believes Cleo-patras Needle to be its b
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