DOI Heft:
No. 120 (February, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0366
Studio-Talk
“shell fisher carts
together in Messrs. Watts’ gallery. Seldom do his
pictures, whether subject or landscape, pass beyond
the decorative; and the faces and gestures of his
figures rarely express the story suggested by the
title or, what is more important, bear the impress of
deeply felt emotion as regards life. On the other
hand, the decorative quality of much of his work
is definite and charming. Gifted with a refined
sense of colour and having at command a technique
which, if not powerful,
issues in admirable quality
of paint surface and tex-
ture, his excellently ordered
design, with its sense of
rhythmic line and grace-
fully disposed and propor-
tioned masses, is pleasing
to the eye and reposeful to
the senses. Moreover, his
work is marked by fine
taste and by a feeling for
style which give it some-
thing of classic simplicity
and a certain air of distinc-
tion. J. L. C.
subjects of many of these
sketches, that she was fresh
from the influence of the
Parisian atelier. They were
of great variety : glimpses
of Paris and of old Edin-
burgh, of Breton villages,
and the curving shores of
Fife; several portraits of
children and a three-quarter
length of a comely Breton
lass. Garden subjects were
a feature of the collection,
and in several of these
much of the charm of
flowers in bloom was suc-
cessfully attained. In the
majority of these drawings
the handling was slight,
oftensomewhat loose, but in
others there was evidence of
a searching after qualities only to be attained through
long, patient, and ardent labour. W. D. M.
GLASGOW.— Of various exhibitions held
here during the closing months of the
past year, one that attracted some
notice was held in the Institute
Galleries by the Glasgow Society of Artists, the
youngest and only exclusive association of artists
,3-i;
BY W. CUNNINGHAM HECTOR
“NEAR CARTMEL
BY W. A. GIBSON
The name of Miss A.
Dalyell, who last month
had an exhibition of water-
colours here, is new to the
Edinburgh art - world, and
one gathered, both from
the technique and the
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“shell fisher carts
together in Messrs. Watts’ gallery. Seldom do his
pictures, whether subject or landscape, pass beyond
the decorative; and the faces and gestures of his
figures rarely express the story suggested by the
title or, what is more important, bear the impress of
deeply felt emotion as regards life. On the other
hand, the decorative quality of much of his work
is definite and charming. Gifted with a refined
sense of colour and having at command a technique
which, if not powerful,
issues in admirable quality
of paint surface and tex-
ture, his excellently ordered
design, with its sense of
rhythmic line and grace-
fully disposed and propor-
tioned masses, is pleasing
to the eye and reposeful to
the senses. Moreover, his
work is marked by fine
taste and by a feeling for
style which give it some-
thing of classic simplicity
and a certain air of distinc-
tion. J. L. C.
subjects of many of these
sketches, that she was fresh
from the influence of the
Parisian atelier. They were
of great variety : glimpses
of Paris and of old Edin-
burgh, of Breton villages,
and the curving shores of
Fife; several portraits of
children and a three-quarter
length of a comely Breton
lass. Garden subjects were
a feature of the collection,
and in several of these
much of the charm of
flowers in bloom was suc-
cessfully attained. In the
majority of these drawings
the handling was slight,
oftensomewhat loose, but in
others there was evidence of
a searching after qualities only to be attained through
long, patient, and ardent labour. W. D. M.
GLASGOW.— Of various exhibitions held
here during the closing months of the
past year, one that attracted some
notice was held in the Institute
Galleries by the Glasgow Society of Artists, the
youngest and only exclusive association of artists
,3-i;
BY W. CUNNINGHAM HECTOR
“NEAR CARTMEL
BY W. A. GIBSON
The name of Miss A.
Dalyell, who last month
had an exhibition of water-
colours here, is new to the
Edinburgh art - world, and
one gathered, both from
the technique and the
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