Studio: international art (30.1904)

Studio-Talk

landscape by j. f. aubertin

jury would be rather more severe, there is very draughts of inspiration he has drawn from mediasval

little doubt that great artistic pleasure will be pro- sources. And yet we have here no mere copy, no

vided by this eclectic and intelligent organisation. vain repetition, but a genuinely personal product

H. F. full of individual expression.

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ENEVA.—Mr. Reuter's valuable con- These works are not only indicative of an artist

tributions to decorative design have with whom are the secrets of design, but they are

been long known to readers of The suffused with that quaint imaginativeness peculiar

Studio. Besides the charm of their to the artist himself. This last-mentioned quality,

intrinsic excellence, they have a special
interest to lovers of. art in England
because of their suggestion of certain
affinities in the artist with William
Morris and his school. It is well
known that Mr. Reuter spent many
years in England, and that his gifts
as an illuminator were so highly ap-
preciated by William Morris that he
confided to him the work of illuminat-
ing his book, " Roots from the Moun-
tains." There are artists who seem to
have come into our utilitarian age from
a far-away time, " when art was for all
men and life only for painting, carv-
ing, illuminating great missals, and
weaving embroideries." Mr. Reuter is
one of them, and whether we study
his tapestries, his designs for things for
household use, his miniature paintings,
or his considerable work as an illumi-
nator, we cannot help feeling what deep " melancholy landscapes," no. i

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