DOI issue:
No. 118 (December, 1906)
DOI article:The second exhibition of the Society of Twenty-Five English Painters
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0169
The Society of Twenty-Five English Painters
SPRING IN AYRSHIRE”
BY GEORGE HOUSTON
this exhib’tion resolves itself
into a sensitive analysis of
the effect of sunlight in
paintings of the nude (the
one reproduced was not
quite finished when it was
photographed). There are
in his paintings many very
beautiful passages explain-
ing the delicate interchange
of colour in reflected lights
and in the difficult shadows
of the flesh. In the classical
subjects he chooses, his
nymphs have really an as-
sociation with the legendary
beauty which our memory
prepares us for.
In the art of Mr. Melton
Fisher we have something
THE WATER NYMPHS
BY CECIL REA
x55
SPRING IN AYRSHIRE”
BY GEORGE HOUSTON
this exhib’tion resolves itself
into a sensitive analysis of
the effect of sunlight in
paintings of the nude (the
one reproduced was not
quite finished when it was
photographed). There are
in his paintings many very
beautiful passages explain-
ing the delicate interchange
of colour in reflected lights
and in the difficult shadows
of the flesh. In the classical
subjects he chooses, his
nymphs have really an as-
sociation with the legendary
beauty which our memory
prepares us for.
In the art of Mr. Melton
Fisher we have something
THE WATER NYMPHS
BY CECIL REA
x55