International studio (55.1915)

Clement J. Barnhorn


LORD & TAYLOR FOUNTAIN, NEW YORK

BY CLEMENT J. BARNHORN

parture for Paris. Then came five years filled
with work and hope, five years of uninterrupted
study under Puech and Mercie, drawing at Julien’s
and six months in Italy. The result was the
Magdalene, a living presentation of an oft-repeated

theme that might easily have been made either
picturesque or commonplace. The recumbent
figure, so expressive of anguish that even a separ-
ated hand tells the story, is the work to which the
much abused term “vital” may be aptly applied.

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