DOI Heft:
Nr. 220 (July 1911)
DOI Artikel:The new english art club's exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20973#0140
The New English Art Cntb
THE NEW ENGLISH ART or tapestry, and in another canvas of the
CLUB'S EXHIBITION same character, and Mr. Ambrose McEvoy in
his Ana'is, which marks a development upon
The New English Art Club is always preceding works, not in character only, but in
interesting, but sometimes the interest centres in interest of style. Mr. McEvoy's strong literary
some three or four arresting canvases by the chiefs bent seemed inclined to exclude from his interiors
of the society, tailing off to not always very success- the sensitiveness of still-life interpretation that we
ful imitations by some of the neophytes. The case have here. Mr. Philip Connard, too, made an
was very different with the exhibition which closed attractive departure this year in his two flower groups,
last month; though some of the immortals were Mr. Francis James and Mr. Gerard Chowne have
not in evidence, the exhibition as a whole was a hitherto not had to fear rivals; but if Mr. Connard
remarkable success, and hardly a single picture in in his flower pieces can only refrain from intruding
it was without interest. those " tasty bits " of colour with which he generally
Nothing engages the attention more than when a tries to enliven nature, they will have one. Mr.
well-known contributor to a society like this makes Shackleton, whose picture The Island of Dreams we
a sudden change or development of style. For a are illustrating, would perhaps considerably advance
long time Mr. Orpen kept all eyes fixed upon him the rate at which his reputation is growing by a little
by this perfectly sincere manoeuvre; This year, self-restraint in the matter of colour. There is a
however, he has made no new departure ; but there younger member of the club, Mr. Elliott Sea-
are members, two especially, who have developed brooke, who possesses an instinctive sense of what
something new : they are Mr. W. G. von Glehn should be the ingredients of a landscape—witness
in The Garden, a design for a mural decoration his canvas The Kentmere Valley; and in Mr. C. M.
"the end of the chapter"
by p.
wilson steer
ii9
THE NEW ENGLISH ART or tapestry, and in another canvas of the
CLUB'S EXHIBITION same character, and Mr. Ambrose McEvoy in
his Ana'is, which marks a development upon
The New English Art Club is always preceding works, not in character only, but in
interesting, but sometimes the interest centres in interest of style. Mr. McEvoy's strong literary
some three or four arresting canvases by the chiefs bent seemed inclined to exclude from his interiors
of the society, tailing off to not always very success- the sensitiveness of still-life interpretation that we
ful imitations by some of the neophytes. The case have here. Mr. Philip Connard, too, made an
was very different with the exhibition which closed attractive departure this year in his two flower groups,
last month; though some of the immortals were Mr. Francis James and Mr. Gerard Chowne have
not in evidence, the exhibition as a whole was a hitherto not had to fear rivals; but if Mr. Connard
remarkable success, and hardly a single picture in in his flower pieces can only refrain from intruding
it was without interest. those " tasty bits " of colour with which he generally
Nothing engages the attention more than when a tries to enliven nature, they will have one. Mr.
well-known contributor to a society like this makes Shackleton, whose picture The Island of Dreams we
a sudden change or development of style. For a are illustrating, would perhaps considerably advance
long time Mr. Orpen kept all eyes fixed upon him the rate at which his reputation is growing by a little
by this perfectly sincere manoeuvre; This year, self-restraint in the matter of colour. There is a
however, he has made no new departure ; but there younger member of the club, Mr. Elliott Sea-
are members, two especially, who have developed brooke, who possesses an instinctive sense of what
something new : they are Mr. W. G. von Glehn should be the ingredients of a landscape—witness
in The Garden, a design for a mural decoration his canvas The Kentmere Valley; and in Mr. C. M.
"the end of the chapter"
by p.
wilson steer
ii9