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...amateur devotee in search of mentors to guide him through the mazes of art has never had greater riches spread before him than in the present season. Sir William Orpen's Outline (TIME, Oct. 15) is pretty narrowly limited to painting. One wishing a diverting catalogue of the famous individual pictures of the world need go no further...
...enlisted the coöperation of the greatest artists and artisans in England to carry it out. The house is a miniature model of a completely furnished royal palace, eight feet high, and everything in it is on a scale of one inch to a foot. Thumbnail paintings by Orpen, Sargent, Lavery, Cope, Holliday, of the Academy; murals by Nicholson; decorations by Edmund Dulac; etchings by Stanley Anderson; a staircase by Frampton, the sculptor; miniature books, with hand-written extracts by over a hundred British authors, including an original play by Barrie; music specially composed by Dame Ethel Smyth...
...William Orpen, the latest unit in Messrs. Putnam's lucrative series of " Outlines," attains neither the scientific authority of Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, nor the literary distinction of John Drinkwater. It is a frankly popular attempt to illumine the main peaks of painting in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the end of the 18th Century, covering the Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, French and British schools. Its chief aim is to reproduce several ; hundred of the world's recognized! masterpieces and to say enough about; them and their painters to give the: layman some notion...
...Orpen's principal preoccupations appear to be draughtsmanship and " balance " of composition. Touching the non-graphic arts only in the sculpture of Donatello and Michelangelo and the reliefs of Ghiberti, the book scarcely fulfills its inclusive title. Orpen strives to be religiously impersonal in his praise, but his painter's predilections for Botticelli, Giorgione, Moroni, Lotto, Holbein, Hals, Velasquez, Vermeer, Chardin, Hogarth, Raeburn, Richard Wilson, shine through. Conspicuously omitted from mention is Andrea del Sarto...
...OUTLINE OF ART (2-vols.)-Sir William Orpen-Putnam ($4.50, each...