International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

THE BACK OF THE FARM

responsive. Heseeks inspirationfrom her in
rnany of her moods, but preferably her gentier or

more elusive moods,
which caii for aii the
subtie insight of the artist,
and his breadth of vision,
to interprettheirtender
beauty. Fromthemystic
charm of twiiight, and the
wonder and the mystery
of the night, Mr. Stratton
seems, as if by some
magic sympathy, to draw
the secrets of tones ex-
quisite in their harmonies.
And through those har-
monies he expresses the
poeticai signihcance of the
scene with such spirituai
intuition and artistic sim-
plicity that one forgets
the paint. Yet what a
irne pure quaiity of paint
it is, and how luminousiy it renders the coiours of
the night revealed to the painter's giowing vision.

BY FRED STRATTON


"A SUMMER [DYLL" C. & BY FRED STRATTON
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