DOI Heft:
No. 65 (July, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Some paintings and sculptures at the London Spring Exhibitions
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22774#0040
London Spring Exhibitions
Boughton, and a few of the coming men like Mr.
Arnesby Brown, Mr. J. H. Bacon, and Mr. Charles
Sims, the art lover would find his visits to the
shows singularly unprofitable. These painters
provide the high lights of a rather subdued
pictorial scheme, a few others introduce some not
unpleasant half-tones, but the background is sadly
gloomy and monotonous.
The New Gallery, perhaps, has the most accept-
able collection of mixed works of art which is at
present to be seen in London. The average there
is fairly high, and the representation of various
schools is reasonably complete and well balanced.
The Academy, on the other hand, is a very
moderate show, and is so badly arranged that it
seems worse than it really is. It includes a pass-
able-number of good things, but many of these, by
a strange want of judgment on the part of the
hanging committee, have been placed in positions
which suit them not at all; and, as a consequence,
pictureswhich with proper surroundings would arrest
immediate attention look distressingly common-
place and uninteresting. It is a long time since
there has been at Burlington House an exhibition
which, by mere errors in hanging, gives such exces-
sive prominence to bad work, and suppresses so
effectually the occasional illustrations of sound
capacity which do credit to our native art. The
men who make successes there this year do so in
spite of disadvantages to which they ought never
to have been exposed.
It is, as is usual now, Mr. Sargent who stands
out as the dominant personality in both galleries.
His large groups of The Misses Hunter and The
Ladies Alexandra, Mary, and Theo Acheson, and
his portraits of Lord Ribblesdale and Alfred Wer-
theimer■, Esq., at the Academy, and his group of
The Children of A. Wertheimer, Esq. and the
remarkable open-air study of a boy lying on a rock
beside a mountain torrent, On his Holiday—
Norway, at the New Gallery, make an all-round
assertion of his wonderful abilities that is really
‘morning sunsiiinf.”
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BY ALFRED EAST, A.R.A.
Boughton, and a few of the coming men like Mr.
Arnesby Brown, Mr. J. H. Bacon, and Mr. Charles
Sims, the art lover would find his visits to the
shows singularly unprofitable. These painters
provide the high lights of a rather subdued
pictorial scheme, a few others introduce some not
unpleasant half-tones, but the background is sadly
gloomy and monotonous.
The New Gallery, perhaps, has the most accept-
able collection of mixed works of art which is at
present to be seen in London. The average there
is fairly high, and the representation of various
schools is reasonably complete and well balanced.
The Academy, on the other hand, is a very
moderate show, and is so badly arranged that it
seems worse than it really is. It includes a pass-
able-number of good things, but many of these, by
a strange want of judgment on the part of the
hanging committee, have been placed in positions
which suit them not at all; and, as a consequence,
pictureswhich with proper surroundings would arrest
immediate attention look distressingly common-
place and uninteresting. It is a long time since
there has been at Burlington House an exhibition
which, by mere errors in hanging, gives such exces-
sive prominence to bad work, and suppresses so
effectually the occasional illustrations of sound
capacity which do credit to our native art. The
men who make successes there this year do so in
spite of disadvantages to which they ought never
to have been exposed.
It is, as is usual now, Mr. Sargent who stands
out as the dominant personality in both galleries.
His large groups of The Misses Hunter and The
Ladies Alexandra, Mary, and Theo Acheson, and
his portraits of Lord Ribblesdale and Alfred Wer-
theimer■, Esq., at the Academy, and his group of
The Children of A. Wertheimer, Esq. and the
remarkable open-air study of a boy lying on a rock
beside a mountain torrent, On his Holiday—
Norway, at the New Gallery, make an all-round
assertion of his wonderful abilities that is really
‘morning sunsiiinf.”
26
BY ALFRED EAST, A.R.A.