DOI Heft:
No. 134 April, (1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28254#0185
Studio-Talk
“BUSH VELD
BY F. D. OERDER
the charm of our South African atmosphere.
His reproductions of the. endless plains, with
horizons 'bounded by beautiful mountain-lines, his
rendering of the gloriously-coloured veld in its
winter-garb, his firm grasp of our ethereal skies,
whose blue changes daily into innumerable
nuances, secured for him many admirers. Of late
he has devoted his versatile hand to the painting
of magisterial portraits of Pretoria’s Mayors,
which portraits now adorn the capital’s town-hall.
A portrait of General Botha is his last triumph,
and was the clou of a collective exhibition of his
work recently held here. F. V. E.
CALCUTTA.—The newly-formed Indian
Society of Oriental Art, which has
Lord Kitchener for its President and
is receiving the support of other high
officials, held its first annual exhibition here early
last month, and aroused unusual interest. The
movement of which the Society is the outcome has
had for its centre the Calcutta School of Art, and
among the leading native contributors to this first
exhibition were those who belong to the School as
teachers or students. One of them is Mr. A. N.
Tagore, who is acting as principal during the
absence of Mr. E. B. Havell in Europe. Mr.
Tagore’s work, several examples of which have
appeared in past issues of The Studio, made a
very favourable impression, as did that of his two
pupils, Mr. Bose and Mr. Ganguly, and his
colleague, Mr. Pershad. Some wood-carvings by
Mr. Acharya, of the School, also elicited praise.
AMSTERDAM.—With the art of William
Maris, an exhibition of whose works is
being held this month at the Larenschen
Ivunsthandel in the Heerengracht, The
Studio has already dealt at length in the Special
Number devoted to him and his two brothers
Matthew and James, in which various interesting
examples of his painting were given. William is
the youngest of the three, but though he received
his first and only lessons from them (for, unlike
them, he received no academic training whatever),
these lessons left no trace whatever in his later
achievements. Overshadowed by his brothers as
William has been, there are still many who consider
him equal to them; but whatever may be said on
this score there can be no doubt that his works
will always rank very high among the productions
of the modern Dutch School.
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“BUSH VELD
BY F. D. OERDER
the charm of our South African atmosphere.
His reproductions of the. endless plains, with
horizons 'bounded by beautiful mountain-lines, his
rendering of the gloriously-coloured veld in its
winter-garb, his firm grasp of our ethereal skies,
whose blue changes daily into innumerable
nuances, secured for him many admirers. Of late
he has devoted his versatile hand to the painting
of magisterial portraits of Pretoria’s Mayors,
which portraits now adorn the capital’s town-hall.
A portrait of General Botha is his last triumph,
and was the clou of a collective exhibition of his
work recently held here. F. V. E.
CALCUTTA.—The newly-formed Indian
Society of Oriental Art, which has
Lord Kitchener for its President and
is receiving the support of other high
officials, held its first annual exhibition here early
last month, and aroused unusual interest. The
movement of which the Society is the outcome has
had for its centre the Calcutta School of Art, and
among the leading native contributors to this first
exhibition were those who belong to the School as
teachers or students. One of them is Mr. A. N.
Tagore, who is acting as principal during the
absence of Mr. E. B. Havell in Europe. Mr.
Tagore’s work, several examples of which have
appeared in past issues of The Studio, made a
very favourable impression, as did that of his two
pupils, Mr. Bose and Mr. Ganguly, and his
colleague, Mr. Pershad. Some wood-carvings by
Mr. Acharya, of the School, also elicited praise.
AMSTERDAM.—With the art of William
Maris, an exhibition of whose works is
being held this month at the Larenschen
Ivunsthandel in the Heerengracht, The
Studio has already dealt at length in the Special
Number devoted to him and his two brothers
Matthew and James, in which various interesting
examples of his painting were given. William is
the youngest of the three, but though he received
his first and only lessons from them (for, unlike
them, he received no academic training whatever),
these lessons left no trace whatever in his later
achievements. Overshadowed by his brothers as
William has been, there are still many who consider
him equal to them; but whatever may be said on
this score there can be no doubt that his works
will always rank very high among the productions
of the modern Dutch School.
163