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International studio — 23.1904

DOI Heft:
No. 91 (Septemner, 1904)
DOI Artikel:
Bate, Percy H.: Joseph Crawhall, master draughtsman
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0294

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Joseph Craw hall


word, a look, are often
sufficient to inspire a pic-
ture. One friend recounts
how he has just come from
a dog show; almost as
quick as the telling there
it all is, ‘ put down1 in
the most delicious manner.
Another tells how he has
just seen the coach go by
with two chestnuts in
the ‘wheel’ and a white
and bay in the ‘ lead ’;
one of his most delicately
beautiful drawings is the
result.”
Two qualities are not-
ably characteristic of
Cravvhall’s work, an intense
power of observation and
an unusual directness of
expression. Silent to the
verge of taciturnity, Craw-
“ pigeons” by Joseph crawhall hall goes through the world

New Faces,” and last, not
least, “ The Compleatest
Angling Booke,” a volume
notable as containing,
in addition to some char-
acteristic illustrations by
the subject of this article,
a series of most humorous
pen-drawings by a young
artist not at that time so
much in evidence as now,
when he is known every-
where as Sir James
Guthrie, P.R.S.A.
Crawhall’s finished work
is the result of impulse,
not the outcome of indus-
try. This means that he is
not the master of his
moods, and that his
moments of inspiration are
fleeting; and the friend
who knows his best work
speaks truly in saying that
with him “the desire for
artistic expression reveals
itself at the most unfore-
seen times in the most
untoward of places. A


“THE FARMER’S BOY”

BY JOSEPH CRAWHALL

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