Word: draughtsman
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...sketch on the opening page is appropriately "impressionistic." Perhaps the cleverest bit of drawing in the number is the illustration at the top of page 53, a joke made new by interpretation. These figures are alive; here are expressed energy, character, action, and humor. In a small space the draughtsman has said much and said it well...
...Angelo by Brenourry has been received from Professor C. E. Norton. The Department of Fine Arts has acquired and deposited in the Museum a lead pencil and wash drawing of Chamouni by John Ruskin--a work of the "Modern Painters" epoch, which was Ruskin's strongest time as a draughtsman. Eight hundred and fifty-eight photographs have been purchased during the year, comprising representations of Indian, Greek, and Egyptian sculpture, French and Flemish painting, architecture of France, Spain, the Netherlands and modern England and other subjects. Several additions have also been made to the library...