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...exhibition of twenty-two pencil drawings by Mr. Kenneth John Conant '15 is being held in the Print Room of the Fogg Art Museum and is to run into the first week of November...
Every aesthetic possibility of these seeming-fragile structures, these English cathedrals, Mr. Conant has realized and rendered with short, firm staccato pencil strokes. All the training of the professional architect is behind him, and that implies a solidity of handling unknown to the disintegrated impressionist schools. (Nothing could be more different, for instance, than three etchings of Venetian Palazzi by Whistler, which hang on one of the other walls of the room.) One notes too a technical advance over the Spanish drawings, a greater range of values, in particular a greater use of black...
...series of twenty-two pencil drawings of English cathedrals by Kenneth John Conant '15 is on view at the Fogg Museum. The exhibition may be visited between 9 and 5 o'clock on week-days and 1 and 5 on Sundays throughout the remainder of the current month...
...impressions of early states of the plates, showing the artists at their best. The twelve etchings by Meryon are of the old Paris of his day, depicting the poetry and picturesqueness of the city which have long since been destroyed. The etchings include "The Stryge", its title written in pencil by Meryon himself; "La Galorie de Notre Dame", with its reflected light, a presentation copy, bearing in Meryon's handwriting "a Mr. Hillemacher"; the "Pont an Change" with its wonderful sky effect; the "Abside de Notre Dame"; and "La Pompe Notre Dame...
Drawing is perhaps one of the most personal of the arts. There is something peculiarly attracting in the very fact that the picture is entirely created from a blank-white sheet of paper by the skillful handling of the pencil; in the opportunity that a drawing offers to even the most uninitiated observer to study the actual lines and processes of this creation. It is in this, and in the ability shown to present the true character of his sitters through close and studious observation of the physical forms and expressions that reveal the soul, that the popular appeal...