International studio . A JAPANESE NOBLEWOMANAND CHILD BY H. H. MOORE /// .///( Galleries. Courtesy Knoedler GalleritA WATER COLOUR BY F. BYRON-KUHN the model bequeathed to us out of the past. Itmay be that Mr. Bartlett, out of the goodness ofhis heart, permitted too many trimmings to beadded to the monument, and the fault, therefore,is not his if the arch is good in ensemble and badin detail. Had Mr. Bartlett found a Rude tofashion him a group like that which ornamentsthe Paris Arc de Triomphe, no doubt the archwould have been bettered instead of , the Rudes are few and fa
International studio . A JAPANESE NOBLEWOMANAND CHILD BY H. H. MOORE /// .///( Galleries. Courtesy Knoedler GalleritA WATER COLOUR BY F. BYRON-KUHN the model bequeathed to us out of the past. Itmay be that Mr. Bartlett, out of the goodness ofhis heart, permitted too many trimmings to beadded to the monument, and the fault, therefore,is not his if the arch is good in ensemble and badin detail. Had Mr. Bartlett found a Rude tofashion him a group like that which ornamentsthe Paris Arc de Triomphe, no doubt the archwould have been bettered instead of , the Rudes are few and far seems to me, therefore, that it is poor returnon the part of the sculptors to besmearch theaccomplishment of their distinguished confrere,whose labour was one of love and patriotism andwhose motives have always been the advance-ment of beauty and the cjuickening of the tasteof the man on the street. How childish it is to make reproach of the factthat the Arch is not modern. Is there anythingmore modern than our skyscrapers and yet, isthere an architect in this city who do
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