Catalogue of paintings and drawings. (1922) (14597116928)

Identifier: catpaint00worc (find matches)
Title: Catalogue of paintings and drawings.
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Art Museum
Subjects: Art Catalogs
Publisher: Worchester, Massachusetts
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO



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ntal adventures, without whichthe subtle and unique in art do not happen. An intellect richlyimbued with the principles of Italian and Dutch art is somewhatof an obstacle to free expression. Furthermore, sublety is oftenerthe result of a close study of nature than of an extensive researchinto methods of painting. The idea of this picture is conveyed in a suggestive way.Although it is evidently an unfinished sketch, it has a senseof completeness. The grouping is graceful and enhanced bysubtlety of line. \ery little pigment has been used, and withthe exception of the heads and the folds of drapery, the canvashas been painted, or rather tinted, with oil slightly coloured withsienna. A touch of vermilion in the faces is the only otherpositive tone. The coarse canvas is left almost bare, giving anappropriate texture, particularly to the infants body. The formsdepend entirely on line drawing of a very slight character,but the construction is felt. Oil on canvas, ^oli inches by z^H inches 87
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THE ARTIST S DAUGHTERSTHOMAS GAINSBOROUGH 88 THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH English, 1727-1788THE ARTISTS DAUGHIT^RS Few painters have shown more discernment than Galns-borotigh In expressing the subtle characteristics of their sitters.Although he usually represents the privileged class of the day—attired as befitted their rank—one Is never conscious thattrappings have been employed to create dignit) or suggestimportance. Intuitive perception marks all of Gainsboroughswork. His men and women can always be transplanted into hislandscapes, his feeling for animate and Inanimate matter breath-ing ever the same rare quality. In The Artists Daughters as well as In the portraits In theSouth Kensington Museum, painted when the girls were younger,the figures are treated more objectively than In many of hisworks of equal Importance. The daughters of Gainsborough,Margaret and Mary, are assumed to have been born about1750, and the painting has been ascribed to 1770. MargaretIs the seated figure In white