DOI issue:
Nr. 105 (November, 1905)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0092
Studio-Talk
rary Scottish painting. Mr. C. H. Mackie again
tackled the difficult problems involved in
mixed lighting in such different subjects as The
Sheep Folds and The Shop-lit Pavement with con-
siderable subtlety and skill; and Mr. Burn Murdoch
showed daring and abandonin a pictureof abrilliantly-
lighted ballroom crowded with dancers. Admir-
able landscapes were sent by Mr. Campbell Mitchell,
Mr. W. M. Fraser, Mr. Mason Hunter, and others.
Mr. J. A. Ford’s Mrs. Robert Walker (a lady in
green) and two heads of men by Mr. Somerville
Shanks were perhaps the most outstanding of the
portraits; and amongst the animal pictures the
most novel were several charming little canvases,
with the donkeys on Portobello sands and their
juvenile riders for subject, by Miss Anna Dixon.
The water-colours also included some excellent
cushion ( See London Studio-Talk) by mary simonds
Cameron, whose coloured illustrations to
Kingsley’s “ Water Babies ” are probably
the most delightful things she has done;
with Mr. J. D. Fergusson, who found
in a Japanese Statuette and accessories
a motive singularly well adapted to his
somewhat summary yet painter - like
method; and with Mr. A. G. Sinclair,
who in a finely-conceived sketch of
Mörses Harroivitig reached a higher
plane than he has done in anything one
remembers. Considerable adventure as
regards subject was also shown by several.
If only partially successful, Mr. Robert
Burns showed commendable ambition in
Go felch to me a pint of wine, for elabo-
rate figure - pictures such as this have
been comparatively rare in contempo-
CUSHION
BY MRS. REYNOLDS-STEPHENS
(See London Studio-Talk)
SILVER CLASP BY MRS. MILLS
(See London Studio- Talk)
things, such as the tender and sympathetic study
of an old Dutch woman by Mr. H. W. Kerr ; a
campaigning incident by Mr. Skeoch Cumming;
and landscapes by Miss Ross, Miss Emily Pater-
son, and Mr. T. M. B. Hay. By painters of more
assured reputation, members of the Royal Scottish
Academy, and others, there were pictures and draw-
ings which should have been mentioned perhaps
in preference to those named ; but in an exhibition
such as this it is to the work of the younger artists
that one turns first. And in the same way, although
the exhibition contained a splendid bronze by
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rary Scottish painting. Mr. C. H. Mackie again
tackled the difficult problems involved in
mixed lighting in such different subjects as The
Sheep Folds and The Shop-lit Pavement with con-
siderable subtlety and skill; and Mr. Burn Murdoch
showed daring and abandonin a pictureof abrilliantly-
lighted ballroom crowded with dancers. Admir-
able landscapes were sent by Mr. Campbell Mitchell,
Mr. W. M. Fraser, Mr. Mason Hunter, and others.
Mr. J. A. Ford’s Mrs. Robert Walker (a lady in
green) and two heads of men by Mr. Somerville
Shanks were perhaps the most outstanding of the
portraits; and amongst the animal pictures the
most novel were several charming little canvases,
with the donkeys on Portobello sands and their
juvenile riders for subject, by Miss Anna Dixon.
The water-colours also included some excellent
cushion ( See London Studio-Talk) by mary simonds
Cameron, whose coloured illustrations to
Kingsley’s “ Water Babies ” are probably
the most delightful things she has done;
with Mr. J. D. Fergusson, who found
in a Japanese Statuette and accessories
a motive singularly well adapted to his
somewhat summary yet painter - like
method; and with Mr. A. G. Sinclair,
who in a finely-conceived sketch of
Mörses Harroivitig reached a higher
plane than he has done in anything one
remembers. Considerable adventure as
regards subject was also shown by several.
If only partially successful, Mr. Robert
Burns showed commendable ambition in
Go felch to me a pint of wine, for elabo-
rate figure - pictures such as this have
been comparatively rare in contempo-
CUSHION
BY MRS. REYNOLDS-STEPHENS
(See London Studio-Talk)
SILVER CLASP BY MRS. MILLS
(See London Studio- Talk)
things, such as the tender and sympathetic study
of an old Dutch woman by Mr. H. W. Kerr ; a
campaigning incident by Mr. Skeoch Cumming;
and landscapes by Miss Ross, Miss Emily Pater-
son, and Mr. T. M. B. Hay. By painters of more
assured reputation, members of the Royal Scottish
Academy, and others, there were pictures and draw-
ings which should have been mentioned perhaps
in preference to those named ; but in an exhibition
such as this it is to the work of the younger artists
that one turns first. And in the same way, although
the exhibition contained a splendid bronze by
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