Studio: international art (87.1924)

SOME PASTELS BY MRS. E. GRANGER-TAYLOR

of the modern mannerism. She makes
rash experiments at times—her Pygmalion,
perhaps, comes into this category—but she
does not fumble and she does not try to
hide by an affectation of superficial clever-
ness the absence of a real grasp of her
subject. Her mistakes arise from choice of
a wrong direction, not from tentative
efforts to make something out of nothing.
Even in summary studies like the Open
Window and the Leather Jacket, the
economy of expression does not imply
evasion of fact; their slightness is not due
to any want of purpose. They are, really,
carried as far as they need be to explain
what she had in mind, and the explanation
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“ THE OPEN WINDOW/' PASTEL
BY MRS. E. GRANGER-TAYLOR

(In the possession of G. Midgley
Taylor, Esq.)

of this aim is as clear and logical in them
as it is in things which she has elaborated
much more fully. The problem to be
solved in the Girl with Mirror, for example,
was more complex than that presented by
either of the others, and because it was
more complex it had to be gone into more
exhaustively and its solution had to be
set forth at greater length ; the difference
in the result is one of procedure rather
than principle. Indeed, the consistency
with which the artist works, and the in-
telligence with which she applies her
knowledge to the matter in hand, deserve
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