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Identifier: internationalstu38newy (find matches)
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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But the exhibited Dora was not a first impression.It was symptomatic of the painters mental attitude that his first choice was to illustrate Doras failure,and so he represents her after she had sat withthe child in the cornfield till the farmer had passedunseeing, and the sun fell and all the land wasdark. The pathos and mystery of this version ofDora appealed strorgly to Paul Chalmers, whoseimaginative spirit was more akin to the saddercadences of Nature than her joyous moods. Other pictures that show the serious side areEnoch Arden and The Wreck of the Hesperus, bothof them works which took a strong hold on thepopular imagination, though probably if any picturewere to be selected as that which contributed morethan any other to draw public attention to hiswork it would be his Willie Baird, inspired byRobert Buchanans poern. These works all in-dicate a period of his mental and artistic develop-ment when humanity was the dominant note withits passion, tragedy and pathos, a period which
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