DOI issue:
No. 64 (June, 1902)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22773#0306
Studio-Talk
of its sincerity and soundness of method. The
collection includes, perhaps, too much that is ten-
tative and immature, and too many things that are
merely imitative; but apart from these there is
much to occupy agreeably the visitor to the gallery.
Mr. Montague Smyth’s landscapes in oil and
water-colours gathered together in Messrs. Dowdes-
well’s gallery are fascinating as examples of the
accomplishment of an artist who has a certain
delicacy of feeling and charm of method. Mr.
Smyth bases himself to some extent upon the
modem Dutch masters, like Maris or Mauve, but
he is something more than a copyist of the men by
whose manner he is attracted. He does not
surrender his own individuality or insist simply
upon imitating touch by touch and tone by tone
the works of these painters ; he has studied them
intelligently, and though he paints under an
influence, he reserves to himself a great deal of
independence in his adaptation. The result is
undoubtedly pleasant. In his water - colours
especially, which are better than his oils, he
shows himseli to be a very able executant and
a sensitive colourist, with a sound understanding
of what is most memorable in Nature’s tenderest
aspects.
Mr. D. Y. Cam-
eron is an artist
who is always
worth studying,
because he has
always something
fresh to say. The
most recent ex-
hibition of his
work — a collec-
tion of etchings
and drawings in
Mr. Gutekunst’s
gallery — shows
how steadily he
is developing and
how his art is
gaining year by
year in largeness
of view and power
of accomplish-
ment. In the
etchings particu-
larly the combina-
tion of decision
and sensitive
284
understanding ol delicate subtleties, which is one
of the chief virtues of his method, is delightfully
illustrated; and in the drawings, some in line
and some in wash, his technical strength and
dexterity are wholly convincing. The show is a
small one, but within its limits it is thoroughly
complete.
At the Clifford Gallery in the Haymarket Miss
Katharine L. Kimball recently exhibited a number
of excellent pen-and-ink drawings, two of which are
here illustrated.
The Orient-Pacific Steamship Line has recently
issued a new poster, designed by Mr. Frank
Brangwyn, of which we give two illustrations, one
in colour and the other in black-and-white.
DINBURGH.—It is unfortunate that the
hanging and general arrangement of this
year’s Royal Scottish Academy are un-
worthy of the Academy and of the dis-
tinct merit of the exhibition as a whole. No doubt
the space available is quite inadequate for the
display of even the accepted works, while it pre-
vents the exhibitions becoming—what they indubit-
POSTER
BY FRANK BRANGW'Yr-
of its sincerity and soundness of method. The
collection includes, perhaps, too much that is ten-
tative and immature, and too many things that are
merely imitative; but apart from these there is
much to occupy agreeably the visitor to the gallery.
Mr. Montague Smyth’s landscapes in oil and
water-colours gathered together in Messrs. Dowdes-
well’s gallery are fascinating as examples of the
accomplishment of an artist who has a certain
delicacy of feeling and charm of method. Mr.
Smyth bases himself to some extent upon the
modem Dutch masters, like Maris or Mauve, but
he is something more than a copyist of the men by
whose manner he is attracted. He does not
surrender his own individuality or insist simply
upon imitating touch by touch and tone by tone
the works of these painters ; he has studied them
intelligently, and though he paints under an
influence, he reserves to himself a great deal of
independence in his adaptation. The result is
undoubtedly pleasant. In his water - colours
especially, which are better than his oils, he
shows himseli to be a very able executant and
a sensitive colourist, with a sound understanding
of what is most memorable in Nature’s tenderest
aspects.
Mr. D. Y. Cam-
eron is an artist
who is always
worth studying,
because he has
always something
fresh to say. The
most recent ex-
hibition of his
work — a collec-
tion of etchings
and drawings in
Mr. Gutekunst’s
gallery — shows
how steadily he
is developing and
how his art is
gaining year by
year in largeness
of view and power
of accomplish-
ment. In the
etchings particu-
larly the combina-
tion of decision
and sensitive
284
understanding ol delicate subtleties, which is one
of the chief virtues of his method, is delightfully
illustrated; and in the drawings, some in line
and some in wash, his technical strength and
dexterity are wholly convincing. The show is a
small one, but within its limits it is thoroughly
complete.
At the Clifford Gallery in the Haymarket Miss
Katharine L. Kimball recently exhibited a number
of excellent pen-and-ink drawings, two of which are
here illustrated.
The Orient-Pacific Steamship Line has recently
issued a new poster, designed by Mr. Frank
Brangwyn, of which we give two illustrations, one
in colour and the other in black-and-white.
DINBURGH.—It is unfortunate that the
hanging and general arrangement of this
year’s Royal Scottish Academy are un-
worthy of the Academy and of the dis-
tinct merit of the exhibition as a whole. No doubt
the space available is quite inadequate for the
display of even the accepted works, while it pre-
vents the exhibitions becoming—what they indubit-
POSTER
BY FRANK BRANGW'Yr-