Abstract

Fine Arts

The article presents information on the exhibition of drawings by artist John Ruskin, which was opened at the Twenty-third Street "American Art Gallery," is in many ways unusual. Indeed it is unique, in that it is a show of things never made to be shown, of drawings made not as an end but as means to a different end, the property of the artist and yet not for sale. Ruskin and his books are now undergoing trial, and in these drawings is testimony in his behalf. They are exhibited, it appears, for that reason. They show the best side of the mind and work of their author. They should be studied by those who, having been swayed powerfully by Ruskin's books of twenty years ago, now review their old enthusiasm and that winch called it forth in the light of greater experience and the recent startling and hardly reasonable utterances of their teacher and are not unapt to conclude that they have been fools and their guide a fanatic.