In “Boy in a Red Waistcoat,” his latest article for the “Master Class” column of Artist’s Magazine, Jerry Weiss suggests Cézanne had a connection to classical sources far greater than many of today’s classical realists would acknowledge. “Cézanne was dedicated to supplementing the study of the old masters with the observation of nature,” writes Weiss, “an ambition that we can hardly improve upon. He was less interested in the surfaces of classical paintings than their structural design, and his eye for composition was redoubtable.” Weiss’s article (PDF here) appears in the December 2014 issue of the Artist’s Magazine.