Studio-Talk
“ IN THE DESERT
IIY STEFANO USSI
touched, and always with just that characteristic
movement, that revealing truth of posture, which
shows the keen and sympathetic observer as well
as the able draughtsman.
And so Stefano Ussi put himself in the very van
of the impressionist movement, and his Eastern
sketches are as fresh and palpitating, as sympathetic
to the eye of the younger generation as though
they had been painted yesterday. But it is as
though the vision had blinded him. He has
evidently felt in his native land no inspiration like
that which dominated him abroad. That he can
still paint and conceive with a youthful vigour and
freshness he showed a few years ago when he
painted his Machiavelli in his Study for the Italian
BY G. A. REID
61
“SUMMER.” DECORATIVE PANEL
(See Canada Studio-Talk)
“ IN THE DESERT
IIY STEFANO USSI
touched, and always with just that characteristic
movement, that revealing truth of posture, which
shows the keen and sympathetic observer as well
as the able draughtsman.
And so Stefano Ussi put himself in the very van
of the impressionist movement, and his Eastern
sketches are as fresh and palpitating, as sympathetic
to the eye of the younger generation as though
they had been painted yesterday. But it is as
though the vision had blinded him. He has
evidently felt in his native land no inspiration like
that which dominated him abroad. That he can
still paint and conceive with a youthful vigour and
freshness he showed a few years ago when he
painted his Machiavelli in his Study for the Italian
BY G. A. REID
61
“SUMMER.” DECORATIVE PANEL
(See Canada Studio-Talk)