Studio: international art (34.1905)

Ruby Levick

Hunstanton she was commissioned to do two windows ; and
it is surprising that she passed from clay to the designing
of coloured glass, keeping the best of her art in this strange
transition. A more imaginative phase of her art is seen in
the group, Asleep in the Arms of the Slow-swinging Seas;
more imaginative we mean in its composition—for imagination
is what has entered into the reality of expression in her model-
ling of the faces—the imagination which is insight—as much
as into the more literary motive of this group. The unfortu-
nate limitations of photography prevent an adequate reproduc-
tion of this ; it will be seen there is in the reproduction a
tendency to throw the hand of the woman too much into
prominence, to make it too big, and to lose the effect of the

SILVER PANEL BY RUBY LEVICK

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" BRIAN "

PORTRAIT RELIEF BY RUBY LEVICK

studiously modelled drapery that takes a
high quality of design in its folds. This
group was bought by the Queen, and,
in spite of the faults of reproduction
mentioned, its beauty must be obvious
in what is apparent here.

The Sea-Urchin is reminiscent of the
artist's earlier studies in its scholarly model-
ling ; it is done for the study's sake, and,
perhaps because it is the figure of a child, it
has in it the same conscientious study that
was evident in the Wrestlers, the Hammer-
thrower, and the Footballer, works which,
teaching her much, proved also how
thoroughly she had learnt her craft, and
how thoroughly intimate she had made her.
self with complicated problems of anatomy.

The reproduction from the coloured
plaster Spring suffers in the same way as
the group above referred to ; in this case
also the camera has failed to reflect in