DOI issue:
No. 53 (July, 1901)
DOI article:Sparrow, Walter Shaw: On some water-colour pictures by Miss Eleanor Fortescue-Bricksdale
DOI article:Glasgow International Exhibition, [1]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22775#0062
The Glasgow Exhibition
THE CONCERT HALL
DESIGNED BY JAMES MILLER
is criticised. If all in this world is vanity, Miss
Fortescue-Brickdale certainly does not find it a
vexation of spirit. She is amused by life’s traves-
ties, and can find noble pathos and poetry in such
humble wayside incidents as the one so touchingly
represented in Riches. Nor is this all. Her men, her
women, her children, are not
abstractions, mere dwellers
in an isle of dreams ; they
live, and they are healthy
as well as human. Miss
Fortescue-Brickdale does
not irritate us with Faith
without Hope, and Hope
without Faith, as Sir Edward
Burne-Jones did in two
famous pictures ; and when
she makes real for us a
knight of chivalry she does
not give him armour merely
because his delicacy needs
to be protected from the
thorns of a briar rose. In
other words, her art is not
a beautiful, weak form of
dilettanteism. Tomymind
it is “ a most blessed com-
panionship of high thoughts
and right feelings.”
G
LASGOW INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION. (PART I.)
Glasgow is often spoken of as a
“dirty manufacturing town,” with the implication
that it possesses little architectural or artistic
W. S. S.
THE VAN HOUTEN COCOA PAVILION
DESIGNED BY A. N. PRENTICE
44
THE CONCERT HALL
DESIGNED BY JAMES MILLER
is criticised. If all in this world is vanity, Miss
Fortescue-Brickdale certainly does not find it a
vexation of spirit. She is amused by life’s traves-
ties, and can find noble pathos and poetry in such
humble wayside incidents as the one so touchingly
represented in Riches. Nor is this all. Her men, her
women, her children, are not
abstractions, mere dwellers
in an isle of dreams ; they
live, and they are healthy
as well as human. Miss
Fortescue-Brickdale does
not irritate us with Faith
without Hope, and Hope
without Faith, as Sir Edward
Burne-Jones did in two
famous pictures ; and when
she makes real for us a
knight of chivalry she does
not give him armour merely
because his delicacy needs
to be protected from the
thorns of a briar rose. In
other words, her art is not
a beautiful, weak form of
dilettanteism. Tomymind
it is “ a most blessed com-
panionship of high thoughts
and right feelings.”
G
LASGOW INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION. (PART I.)
Glasgow is often spoken of as a
“dirty manufacturing town,” with the implication
that it possesses little architectural or artistic
W. S. S.
THE VAN HOUTEN COCOA PAVILION
DESIGNED BY A. N. PRENTICE
44