Graphic art has very rarely taken on the quality of music. It did so in the work of William Blake. At its best, Blake's line drawing has the airy movement and harmony of a string quartet. This is not all it has. On a few square inches of white paper Blake could and did put forms comparable in grandeur to the frescoes of Michelangelo. Few if any exhibitions this season had more artistic interest than a comprehensive show of Blake which opened last week at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Two rooms in that ungainly,...
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