TREASURES FROM THE RUSKIN COLLECTION

JANUARY 10
The Critic as Artist.
Ruskin was not merely acknowledged far and wide as one of the greatest art and
architecture critics of his day, he was also an artist (a watercolourist, draughtsman and
photographer) of great distinction. In 1858 he photographed "A Courtyard in
Abbeville, France" (a town he visited often). Ruskin sought in his work to distill the
fruits of detailed observation, as true of photographs he composed as of his paintings
and writing.
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