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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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thisprecious quality. 0000 The distinguishing features of her artwere her fine spiritual vision, strong imagi-nation, good composition, and a delightin sumptuous colour, rich textures anddraperies. The classical rendering waspresent in much of her work, with some-thing of the Botticelli influence. I haveoften thought how entirely she wouldhave harmonised with the period of theEarly Italian masters. She owed much toher early study of their methods at theNational Gallery, and another influencewhich helped in shaping her mentality werethose youthful days coloured and tingedwith the warmth, light and beauty of scenesviewed under Italian skies. 0 0 Evelyn De Morgan, whose maiden namewas Pickering, was descended from ahighly intellectual family. Her uncle, Mr.Roddam Spencer-Stanhope, with whomshe spent a good deal of her time in Italy,was a distinguished artist. She studied fora time at the Slade School, winning ascholarship, which she discarded in favourof studying in Rome. Though she ex-
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THE5TU-DIP SLEEPING EARTH .WD WAKENINGMOON. FROM Till-. Oil. IAINTINGBY EVELYN DE MORGAN. (IN THR POSSESSION OF MRS. STIRLINO.) n IN MEMORIAM : EVELYN DE MORGAN hibited at the Grosvenor and New Galleryannually when young, in common withmany of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,she never sent to the Academy. Her pic-tures were best seen by themselves ; thevarying scales and colours of surroundingpictures were at war with such individualwork as she produced. 000 It would be beyond the scope of thisarticle to mention more than a few of herpictures. The four illustrations, however,give an idea of her versatility. a a Sleeping Earth and Wakening Moon is afanciful poem in terms of paint. Thesleeping figure of Earth resting in shadowis the embodiment of repose, while set in asphere of tempered light the exquisite littleWakening Moons golden locks trail awayinto light clouds. The shadow of theearth is faintly seen through the moon.The whole picture is full of luminosity. Cassandra shows another

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