DOI issue:
No. 127 (September, 1907)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28252#0246
Studio- Talk
part of his career, but the manner of its handling
shows how greatly the artist’s style has changed.
Recently-painted portraits of Sir Walter and
Lady Thorburn by E. A. Walton were the other
outstanding features of the Exhibition. In his
three-quarter length of Sir Walter, Mr. Walton has
executed one of his most characteristic works, but
in that of Lady Thorburn he has failed to blend
the colour in the painting of the face sufficiently,
with the result that the tone is disagreeably de-
graded.
In celebration of its jubilee the Edinburgh Archi-
tectural Association recently held an exhibition of
architectural drawings in the Royal Scottish Academy
Galleries. Though the main idea was to focus the
architecture of Edinburgh during the last fifty years,
the line was not drawn very strictly, and roughly
the collection might be said to be representative of
Scottish architecture in the Nineteenth Century.
It showed that architecture must be accorded no
insignificant place in any record of that period of
the life of the country. The work of David Bryce
and Playfair naturally occupied a prominent place,
and present-day architecture was well represented
by Sir Rowand Anderson, the designer of the New
University and McEwan Hall, and Hippolyte J.
Blanc, whose chef d’oeuvre is the handsome Coats
Memorial Church, Paisley. Some years ago Edin-
burgh, in her zeal for city improvement, demolished
several notable examples of fine old Scottish do-
mestic architecture, but happily a more enlightened
spirit is now manifest in an attempt to conserve
what is artistic. A. E.
PARIS.—Paul Renouard is, without doubt
one of the most attentive observers of
contemporary life. His colossal oeuvre
forms a living repertory of the events
of his time, noted with an absolutely indefatigable
zeal. Nothing could be of greater value to us than
these drawings, instinct as they are with life, energy,
and spirituality; they constitute, as it were, the
note-book of a fertile artist, whose very life and
breath are involved in his work. One calls to
“THE REHEARSAL ”
BY P. RENOUARD
230
part of his career, but the manner of its handling
shows how greatly the artist’s style has changed.
Recently-painted portraits of Sir Walter and
Lady Thorburn by E. A. Walton were the other
outstanding features of the Exhibition. In his
three-quarter length of Sir Walter, Mr. Walton has
executed one of his most characteristic works, but
in that of Lady Thorburn he has failed to blend
the colour in the painting of the face sufficiently,
with the result that the tone is disagreeably de-
graded.
In celebration of its jubilee the Edinburgh Archi-
tectural Association recently held an exhibition of
architectural drawings in the Royal Scottish Academy
Galleries. Though the main idea was to focus the
architecture of Edinburgh during the last fifty years,
the line was not drawn very strictly, and roughly
the collection might be said to be representative of
Scottish architecture in the Nineteenth Century.
It showed that architecture must be accorded no
insignificant place in any record of that period of
the life of the country. The work of David Bryce
and Playfair naturally occupied a prominent place,
and present-day architecture was well represented
by Sir Rowand Anderson, the designer of the New
University and McEwan Hall, and Hippolyte J.
Blanc, whose chef d’oeuvre is the handsome Coats
Memorial Church, Paisley. Some years ago Edin-
burgh, in her zeal for city improvement, demolished
several notable examples of fine old Scottish do-
mestic architecture, but happily a more enlightened
spirit is now manifest in an attempt to conserve
what is artistic. A. E.
PARIS.—Paul Renouard is, without doubt
one of the most attentive observers of
contemporary life. His colossal oeuvre
forms a living repertory of the events
of his time, noted with an absolutely indefatigable
zeal. Nothing could be of greater value to us than
these drawings, instinct as they are with life, energy,
and spirituality; they constitute, as it were, the
note-book of a fertile artist, whose very life and
breath are involved in his work. One calls to
“THE REHEARSAL ”
BY P. RENOUARD
230