DOI issue:
No. 123 (May, 1907)
DOI article:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Some medallions by Mr. A. Bruce-Joy, R.H.A.
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28251#0214
Some Medallions by Mr. A. Bruce-joy} R.H.A.
equipped in the mechanism of his art. The origin-
ality and the versatility which make him worthy of
attention cannot have effective scope unless his exe-
cutive skill is great enough to enable him to do many
things with equal facility and with consistent merit.
Tentativeness of method or uncertainty of execu-
tion would go far to obscure the meaning of his
achievement, and would certainly diminish or even
destroy its authority. The artist, no matter how
brilliant may be his intelligence and how persuasive
EDWARD HAWKINS, D.D. BY A. BRUCE-JOY
THE LATE GEORGE SALMON, D. D., F. R.S.
BY A. BRUCE-JOY
attainment of memorable results by careful and
exact characterisation, and by searching and minute
observation. Mr. Bruce-Joy has never been content
to make a decorative effect the sole end of his
labour, he has never satisfied himself with that
generalised effectiveness which takes no account of
the lesser details that supplement and complete the
larger facts of a design; his effort has always been
to unite freedom of imagination with realistic pre-
cision in every part of the work on which he has
been engaged, and yet to avoid carrying his realism
to that unnecessary point at which it would approach
the commonplace.
his originality, must be wholly efficient as a work-
man, or else the message he has to convey will lose
all its significance simply because it will be made
unintelligible by the imperfection of his delivery.
But given the right accord between mind and
hand, between the power to invent and the ability
to produce, the accomplishment of the man with a
love for experiment will count for much more than
the best efforts of the highly-skilled craftsman who
merely goes on doing cleverly what he has already
done over and over again.
It is because he has this love of experiment and,
as well, the surest control over intricacies of tech-
nical procedure, that Mr. Albert Bruce-Joy ranks
so high among modern sculptors. During his dis-
tinguished career he has done much that is remark-
able in quality and sound in idea, and he has never
wavered in his artistic purpose. Few artists, indeed,
have so seriously devoted themselves to what may
be called the intellectual aspect of sculpture, to the frank griffin, esq. by a. bruce-joy
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equipped in the mechanism of his art. The origin-
ality and the versatility which make him worthy of
attention cannot have effective scope unless his exe-
cutive skill is great enough to enable him to do many
things with equal facility and with consistent merit.
Tentativeness of method or uncertainty of execu-
tion would go far to obscure the meaning of his
achievement, and would certainly diminish or even
destroy its authority. The artist, no matter how
brilliant may be his intelligence and how persuasive
EDWARD HAWKINS, D.D. BY A. BRUCE-JOY
THE LATE GEORGE SALMON, D. D., F. R.S.
BY A. BRUCE-JOY
attainment of memorable results by careful and
exact characterisation, and by searching and minute
observation. Mr. Bruce-Joy has never been content
to make a decorative effect the sole end of his
labour, he has never satisfied himself with that
generalised effectiveness which takes no account of
the lesser details that supplement and complete the
larger facts of a design; his effort has always been
to unite freedom of imagination with realistic pre-
cision in every part of the work on which he has
been engaged, and yet to avoid carrying his realism
to that unnecessary point at which it would approach
the commonplace.
his originality, must be wholly efficient as a work-
man, or else the message he has to convey will lose
all its significance simply because it will be made
unintelligible by the imperfection of his delivery.
But given the right accord between mind and
hand, between the power to invent and the ability
to produce, the accomplishment of the man with a
love for experiment will count for much more than
the best efforts of the highly-skilled craftsman who
merely goes on doing cleverly what he has already
done over and over again.
It is because he has this love of experiment and,
as well, the surest control over intricacies of tech-
nical procedure, that Mr. Albert Bruce-Joy ranks
so high among modern sculptors. During his dis-
tinguished career he has done much that is remark-
able in quality and sound in idea, and he has never
wavered in his artistic purpose. Few artists, indeed,
have so seriously devoted themselves to what may
be called the intellectual aspect of sculpture, to the frank griffin, esq. by a. bruce-joy
200