. International studio . VICTOR HUGO IN THE GARDENS OF THE PALAIS ROYAL BY AUGUSTE RODIN collection of Auguste Rodins own works. Ofthese there are not less than eighteen hundred,including his drawings. The famous Gakis here, that vast conception which hitherto onlythose privileged persons who have visited themasters studio have been able to see. TheSphynx is here, also new to the public, as well as the Balzac. Adam, the Bronze Age, besides many-others already familiar to us. When these worlds battles are over, and menwill turn from the preoccupations of the war tothe eternal beauty of art. man
. International studio . VICTOR HUGO IN THE GARDENS OF THE PALAIS ROYAL BY AUGUSTE RODIN collection of Auguste Rodins own works. Ofthese there are not less than eighteen hundred,including his drawings. The famous Gakis here, that vast conception which hitherto onlythose privileged persons who have visited themasters studio have been able to see. TheSphynx is here, also new to the public, as well as the Balzac. Adam, the Bronze Age, besides many-others already familiar to us. When these worlds battles are over, and menwill turn from the preoccupations of the war tothe eternal beauty of art. many will be the pil-grims from all the countries of the world to thatshrine of beauty, the Musee Rodin. Walter Griffin, Artiste. I RE \< II POPLARS BY WALTER GRIFFIN w ALTER GRIFFIN, ARTISTEBY L. MERRICK In contemplating the work ofWalter Griffin, its sincerity androbustness, one becomes aware of sensations sim-ilar to those realized when in the presence of apowerful personality, or in hearing of a deepvoiced messenger who refreshes us with a newphase of life. A great French painter, on viewing a group ofthis artists work a few years ago, in Paris, ex-claimed, It is the manly quality that he has in-fused into his canvases that entitles him to thehigh place he has achieved in modern art. That was indeed a worthy description; it isthat manly quality, the force and directnessof his brush, that instantly command respect and are strongly impressed upon the observers mem-ory. In other words, his work evokes thoughts of merriment, curiosity or surprise,such as are stirred by the grandstand players—the isimists—but reflections, deep and serious,of color, light and the atmosphere of places onewould lo
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