. International studio. by the late war, the VERDUN medal-obverse J BY JOHN FLANAGAN most notable of which is the Verdun medal executed as a commis-sion for the United States Government. Repre-sentative collections of Flanagans works are in thegallery of the Luxembourg in Paris, in the FineArts Museum at Ghent, Belgium, and in theMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Yet it is his technique which entitles Flanaganto the highest distinction as a sculptor—a tech-nique that has won encomiums from such artistsas French, MacMonnies and Pennell. I havereferred to his unique mastery of light and shad
. International studio. by the late war, the VERDUN medal-obverse J BY JOHN FLANAGAN most notable of which is the Verdun medal executed as a commis-sion for the United States Government. Repre-sentative collections of Flanagans works are in thegallery of the Luxembourg in Paris, in the FineArts Museum at Ghent, Belgium, and in theMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Yet it is his technique which entitles Flanaganto the highest distinction as a sculptor—a tech-nique that has won encomiums from such artistsas French, MacMonnies and Pennell. I havereferred to his unique mastery of light and shadein relief sculpture. In these achievements Flana-gan proves himself to be a colorist as well as asculptor, a fact that reminds one of the celebrateddictum of Rodin that color is the flower ofmodelling. He achieves the delicacy of etchingsin his charming reliefs. To the layman at least, itis amazing that such striking contrasts of light andshade, such apparent distances and perspectivescan be wrought upon surfaces who
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