DOI issue:
Nr. 106 (December, 1905)
DOI article:Wood, T. Martin: The illustrated books and paintings of W. Graham Robertson
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0150
IV. Graham Robertson
LAFILLE DU ROI D’ESPAONE.
BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON
his »illustrative work is apparent in these. Mr.
Graham Robertson paints in a manner that shows
the influence of the Glasgow school; his painting
is light and fluid, his methods of the simplest, as
are the methods of that school. Witli an inspira-
tion received from Whistler, their’s is the vital art
in England to-day.
Touched with inspiration is the Portrait of a
Lady: the temperament of a lady at this age
LABELLE ROSE.
BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON
IOÖ
more than at any other baffles a portraitist. The
conceits that are characteristic in his books decide
his choice of subject in painting. Let us fall out
with the artist as to his Version of Cinderella as
given us in the picture of Cinderella s Sisters.
According to Mr. Robertson, the sisters have always
suffered under an injustice to their memory.
Cinderella was not old enough to “come out”
that season, when she escaped to the party, and
it is utterly im probable that she was the drudge
of the kitchen. Her sisters, beautiful as may
be, and not in the least bit ugly, were ladies at
Court; it is probable that Cinderella just pottered
round the still-room, learning the arts of house-
EN ROULANT MA BOULE.
BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON
keeping, attended by her maids. This chivalrous
intention to whitewash the sisters is of a piece
with the passion for whitewash that belongs to our
generation—a generation so unbelieving that its
unbelief in the existence of bad and ugly people is
fast turning history into a calendar of the saints.
In his landscape work Mr. Robertson invariably
displays his fine instinct for pictorial composition,
the sense of things as a picture, and faculty for
seeing nature within the square of his canvas. This
LAFILLE DU ROI D’ESPAONE.
BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON
his »illustrative work is apparent in these. Mr.
Graham Robertson paints in a manner that shows
the influence of the Glasgow school; his painting
is light and fluid, his methods of the simplest, as
are the methods of that school. Witli an inspira-
tion received from Whistler, their’s is the vital art
in England to-day.
Touched with inspiration is the Portrait of a
Lady: the temperament of a lady at this age
LABELLE ROSE.
BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON
IOÖ
more than at any other baffles a portraitist. The
conceits that are characteristic in his books decide
his choice of subject in painting. Let us fall out
with the artist as to his Version of Cinderella as
given us in the picture of Cinderella s Sisters.
According to Mr. Robertson, the sisters have always
suffered under an injustice to their memory.
Cinderella was not old enough to “come out”
that season, when she escaped to the party, and
it is utterly im probable that she was the drudge
of the kitchen. Her sisters, beautiful as may
be, and not in the least bit ugly, were ladies at
Court; it is probable that Cinderella just pottered
round the still-room, learning the arts of house-
EN ROULANT MA BOULE.
BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON
keeping, attended by her maids. This chivalrous
intention to whitewash the sisters is of a piece
with the passion for whitewash that belongs to our
generation—a generation so unbelieving that its
unbelief in the existence of bad and ugly people is
fast turning history into a calendar of the saints.
In his landscape work Mr. Robertson invariably
displays his fine instinct for pictorial composition,
the sense of things as a picture, and faculty for
seeing nature within the square of his canvas. This