International studio (32.1907)

IVilton Lockwood

“A DEVONSHIRE COTTAGE”

BY GROSVENOR THOMAS

AN AMERICAN
PORTRAIT-
PAINTER,
WILTON LOCK-
WOOD.

It was at the Champ
de Mars, in the spring of
1904, that the work of
Wilton Lockwood received
its first important notice
in the exhibition of six
characteristic examples.
These six paintings did
not fail of instant atten-
tion ; the power that was
behind them was unques-
tioned, but, as is inevitable
with any decided venture
into untried fields, they

Scottish though it may be in its origin, is now
modified into something which expresses a good
deal more than his belief in the creed of a
particular group of artists. He looks at nature
with independent vision, with a desire to under-
stand her himself rather than with the wish to see
in her only what others have already discovered.

The strength of his art is that which comes from a
vigorous and masculine personality, but a personality
of which the robustness is
at all times restrained by a
love of great aesthetic prin-
ciples and by more than
ordinary tenderness of
poetic feeling.

Mr. Grosvenor Thomas
can best be described as an
artist who has sought in many
directions the materials he
needed for his equipment
but who has succeeded in
combining these materials
so judiciously that he has
made with them something
that seems to be wholly
original and peculiar to
himself. Many other men
have had opportunities
quite as grea of acquiring
knowledge, but few have
been able to use them to
such advantage.

W. K. West. “cluden waters” by grosvenor thomas

received their natural quota of suspicion as to
their depth of sincerity. In the following year,
however, we see him meet with unqualified suc-
cess, observing that his misty enveloppe was not
of an ephemeral and superficial nature, that it
was not a manner or a trick but that it had
been evolved as a serious means of expression.
That it served his purpose adequately, the critics
wrere ready to concede and with the admission

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