Studio: international art (39.1907)

Studio-Talk

exhibition, these and many other treasures
could not be replaced.

Alfredo Melani.

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AN FRANCISCO—Peculiar interest
•attaches to the landscape paintings
by Mr. William Keith which we here
reproduce. In the disastrous fire
which followed the great earthquake in April
figures ornamenting a gold ring by v. miranda last Mr. Keith's studio in this city was com-
pletely destroyed, and with it many fine can.
Nor must I forget the window glass of MM. vases, but the day after found him quietly painting
G. Beltrami & Co., particularly the circular pieces, in his home studio as though nothing had hap-
broadly decorative in pened. The three pic-

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Tesurum, of Venice, one painter. We hope before

^ , , stained glass designed by g. buffa , , , , .

of Italy's most represen- (G. beltrami & co.) long to speak ot his

tative artists in this de- work at greater length.

partment—-an artist-manufacturer not

adverse to the modern spirit, while still mmm U I >•■ '^fia&L'-'&l
lingering among the models of ancient
times. ■;

In the Italian Pavilion of Decorative K
Art was also seen a delightful display by 9
Mr. Lerche, a Norwegian, but cosmopoli-
tan, for, though now living in Rome, he
has worked un peu partout—in his native
town, in France, in Germany, and else-
where—ceramic artist, gold-worker, and (I
sculptor. His exhibit was one of the 1
most original seen in Milan, and in draw-
ing attention to him I deeply regret that m
all this imagination, all this beauty, should S
have been irretrievably lost; for though }9
this Pavilion and that of the Hungarians

were rebuilt before the close of the wrought-iron gate by a. mazzucotelli, engelmann & co.
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