DOI Heft:
Nr. 107 (January, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0339
Studio- Talk
“THE BEND OF THE RIVER’
BY BERTRAM PRIESTMAN
the most representative show of modern art
ever held in the Provinces, but it is a remarkable
proof of the Society’s ability, with the assistance
of municipal authorities, to carry out the scheme
of their first President, Whistler,—the scheme of
holding “ Art Congresses in different centres,
whether in London, the Provinces, on the
Continent of Europe, or
America.”
his etchings, almost all his illustrations, and several
oil paintings, notably the Miss Kinsella shown at
the Memorial Exhibition in London, and the por-
trait of Sir Heiiry Irving. Strangely, the first
appearance of this masterpiece on the walls of the
Cartwright Hall was coincident with that artist’s
death in the same city. No such show of Whistler-’s
The exhibition held in
the New Gallery in the
spring of this year was
taken to Manchester, thence
to Burnley ; but the Collec-
tion now on view in Brad-
ford is virtually a new one,
and many of the more im-
portant works in it have not
yet been seen in London.
Not only this, but it may
be said that the works of
really the greatest artistic
importance, as well as the
most widely discussed this
year, have a place in the
collection. About one
hundred of Whistler’s
BY FRITZ THAULOW
iimograpns are on me
walls, a large number of
“THE GREEN RIVER, NORWAY :
“THE BEND OF THE RIVER’
BY BERTRAM PRIESTMAN
the most representative show of modern art
ever held in the Provinces, but it is a remarkable
proof of the Society’s ability, with the assistance
of municipal authorities, to carry out the scheme
of their first President, Whistler,—the scheme of
holding “ Art Congresses in different centres,
whether in London, the Provinces, on the
Continent of Europe, or
America.”
his etchings, almost all his illustrations, and several
oil paintings, notably the Miss Kinsella shown at
the Memorial Exhibition in London, and the por-
trait of Sir Heiiry Irving. Strangely, the first
appearance of this masterpiece on the walls of the
Cartwright Hall was coincident with that artist’s
death in the same city. No such show of Whistler-’s
The exhibition held in
the New Gallery in the
spring of this year was
taken to Manchester, thence
to Burnley ; but the Collec-
tion now on view in Brad-
ford is virtually a new one,
and many of the more im-
portant works in it have not
yet been seen in London.
Not only this, but it may
be said that the works of
really the greatest artistic
importance, as well as the
most widely discussed this
year, have a place in the
collection. About one
hundred of Whistler’s
BY FRITZ THAULOW
iimograpns are on me
walls, a large number of
“THE GREEN RIVER, NORWAY :