DOI Heft:
No. 4 (July, 1893)
DOI Artikel:The art magazines of America
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17188#0165
The Art Magazines of America
APRIL, 1893.
hand-made paper and beautiful type recall our pleasant. Among the notes are some pertinent
own Chiswick Press at its best. criticisms.
Modern Art, a recent candidate for artistic The Art Student, also a new-comer, is a bright
support, is based also on the form and appear- practical little magazine. It aspires to teach art in
a straightforward scholastic way. It is unconven-
tional in matter as in arrangement. The whole
being written in numbered paragraphs, whereof
the final one in each issue reads : " Unless you put
in practice the directions given in this paper it is not
worth your while reading a single word in it."
The illustrations are useful and chosen for all
sorts of students, some being mere diagrams,
others—such as the capital pen-drawings by Frank
Fowler, which, by the editor's permission, we
reproduce here — being examples of modern
technique that come well in the front rank of
recent work. To direct students to produce
work which is marketable is not necessarily to
lower one's standard of excellence, and the
energetic projector of this magazine is doing
capable service in advising his readers to study the
technique of illustration as well as the more
stately oil and water-colour. When the public
generally realise that a modern pen-drawing
to-day, like a Rembrandt etching of the past, may
as fitly claim to rank among works of the highest
H.BUOOMFIeLD BHRt
' i§l|
_.i_.-„ 12 Months' Subscription, S2.00.
ISSUED MONTHLY. . K
JJW Single copy, 20 cents.
ance of The Century Guild Hobby Hone, and re-
sembles the little known No. 1 of that periodical,
which was published by Mr. George Allen at
Orpington, and is quite a distinct issue from the
No. 1 of the ordinary set. This journal has the
distinction of a plain cover, the one before us,
simply lettered "Modern Art Spring Number
1893," is in a dull greenish grey, printed with
copper-colour ink. Its frontispiece is a reproduction
of Beata Beatrix, from the painting in possession of
Charles J. Hutchinson, Chicago. This, a replica
of the National Gallery picture, has a predella re-
presenting the meeting in Paradise, which is not
included in the photograph here. This is followed
by an article on decorative sculpture by N orris H.
Gibson. Mr. Prang's new theory of colour, which
aims to supply ideal units of pure colour, is dis-
cussed at some length. An appreciation of Millet's
Sheep/old, Corot's St. Sebastian, and a poem re-
markable for its studied avoidance of rhythm,
with some notes, complete the number. The
printing is excellent, the decorative head and art as any fresco or oil painting, a great improve-
tail pieces are interesting, and although the rough ment may be looked for. If there is one distinc-
paper confuses their detail it is not wholly un- tive note in to-day's utterance upon art, it is the
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APRIL, 1893.
hand-made paper and beautiful type recall our pleasant. Among the notes are some pertinent
own Chiswick Press at its best. criticisms.
Modern Art, a recent candidate for artistic The Art Student, also a new-comer, is a bright
support, is based also on the form and appear- practical little magazine. It aspires to teach art in
a straightforward scholastic way. It is unconven-
tional in matter as in arrangement. The whole
being written in numbered paragraphs, whereof
the final one in each issue reads : " Unless you put
in practice the directions given in this paper it is not
worth your while reading a single word in it."
The illustrations are useful and chosen for all
sorts of students, some being mere diagrams,
others—such as the capital pen-drawings by Frank
Fowler, which, by the editor's permission, we
reproduce here — being examples of modern
technique that come well in the front rank of
recent work. To direct students to produce
work which is marketable is not necessarily to
lower one's standard of excellence, and the
energetic projector of this magazine is doing
capable service in advising his readers to study the
technique of illustration as well as the more
stately oil and water-colour. When the public
generally realise that a modern pen-drawing
to-day, like a Rembrandt etching of the past, may
as fitly claim to rank among works of the highest
H.BUOOMFIeLD BHRt
' i§l|
_.i_.-„ 12 Months' Subscription, S2.00.
ISSUED MONTHLY. . K
JJW Single copy, 20 cents.
ance of The Century Guild Hobby Hone, and re-
sembles the little known No. 1 of that periodical,
which was published by Mr. George Allen at
Orpington, and is quite a distinct issue from the
No. 1 of the ordinary set. This journal has the
distinction of a plain cover, the one before us,
simply lettered "Modern Art Spring Number
1893," is in a dull greenish grey, printed with
copper-colour ink. Its frontispiece is a reproduction
of Beata Beatrix, from the painting in possession of
Charles J. Hutchinson, Chicago. This, a replica
of the National Gallery picture, has a predella re-
presenting the meeting in Paradise, which is not
included in the photograph here. This is followed
by an article on decorative sculpture by N orris H.
Gibson. Mr. Prang's new theory of colour, which
aims to supply ideal units of pure colour, is dis-
cussed at some length. An appreciation of Millet's
Sheep/old, Corot's St. Sebastian, and a poem re-
markable for its studied avoidance of rhythm,
with some notes, complete the number. The
printing is excellent, the decorative head and art as any fresco or oil painting, a great improve-
tail pieces are interesting, and although the rough ment may be looked for. If there is one distinc-
paper confuses their detail it is not wholly un- tive note in to-day's utterance upon art, it is the
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