Word: ross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following review of the exhibition of the paintings of Dr. D. W. Ross '75, opening today at the New Fogg Museum, was written for the Crimson by M. L. Meiss...
...Fogg Art Museum, opening this morning, is an exhibition of the paintings of Dr. Denman W. Ross. The paintings have a two-fold interest; in addition to their intrinsic merit as works of art, they have been produced as illustrations of the theories which Dr. Ross has developed in his scientific study of colour, representation and design, and which he has published in his well-known books, On Drawing and Painting, and The Painter's Palette. It is obvious, at once, that these two points of view and interests are really one. It is because of Dr. Ross understanding...
...paintings, numbering over 80, include portraits, landscapes and still life subjects. They are unusual on account of their technical excellence. Dr. Ross' brush is the servant of his understanding as well as of his emotions. He gives us the keen satisfaction of a beautifully finished and ordered performance. Not confined to one particular mode of expression, he ranges freely and easily from one to another. It has been his aim to understand and to practice the different modes of the art as they have been developed by the reat masters: the mode of outlines and flat tones; of low relief...
...Cuautla in Mexico are fresh and charming, and the Canal View done in Venice recalls Corot's sketches of Rome. The Boy Reading and the Musicians suggest the full chi, aroscuro method of Velasquez. There is an interesting and spirited copy of the Olivarez of Velasquez. To emphasize Dr. Ross' relation to the great masters is certainly not to deny his originality but rather to praise his achievements which are rooted in a study of the best precedents of the past...
Plans for the second annual exhibition of objects of art collected by students of the University and of Radcliffe are now under way. C. B. Platt Sp. or F. J. Ross 1G, will be in the third floor conference room of the Fogg Museum from 10 to 12 o'clock and from 2 to 4 o'clock to consult with students who desire to make loans to the exhibition...