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AMERICAN ART NEWS
7 Feb. 1925.
Paris Correspondent

"Expressiveness quite out of the common".
"By alternate moods, audacious, clumsy, powerful, never common, almost always rich in color, Morgan Russel pursues his courageous way which will lead him to the complete realisation of his ideal and we which him the success that he merits".

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GUSTAV KAHN
From Mercure de France,
1st March 1919, etc.

"Great ardor and originality".
"Singularly nervous and palpitating".
"Expansion of a happy temperament".

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J. G. LEMOINE
L'Intransigeant, 9 Aug. 1919
from
and L'Homme Libre,
26 March 1921.

"We appreciate the tenacious effort of Morgan Russel who is an independent and an original in the phalanx of innovators".
"American-born, he his becoming well known in France and should be soon noticed by his compatriots".
"His art seems to be astride that of Europe and the Extreme-Orient while strongly linked with modern thought".
"Morgan Russell dwells on a plan of spiritual thinking which is disconcerting to those who value things purely from the material".

See also chapter 13 of "Modern Painting" by Willard Huntington Wright; John Lane Co., publishers.

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