John McEwen

How seriously should we take Ruskin as an artist?

A review of John Ruskin: Artist and Observer, by Christopher Newall. This catalogue says Ruskin was ‘among the greatest of English painters and draftsman’; some of the comparisons it contains suggest otherwise

‘Study of a Velvet Crab’ c. 1870, presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin School of Drawing (University of Oxford) in 1875
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  • John Ruskin: Artist and Observer

    Christopher Newall

    National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa/ Paul Holberton Publishing, pp. 376

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