DOI issue:
Nr. 157 (March 1910)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0078
Studio-Talk
CHISELLED STEEL BOXES BY THOMAS P. SPALL
to a very large public by reason of the deep feeling
expressed in them. They give a synthesis of the
emotions which affect this painter most in the
presence of nature, but they are conventionalised
to Mr. Peppercorn's own convention. Therefore
his water-colours in which, so to speak, contact
with nature is more directly shown, have quite a
different character, and there will be found people
who will respond to their acute realism more than
to the artist's oil paintings.
At the same galleries some water-colours by Mr.
Wynne Apperley were on view. These varied in
merit, but at his best the highest praise is due to
Mr. Apperley. The Basin of St. Mark, On the
Grand Canal, Varenna, Lake Cotno, showed a
peculiar ability to see a crowded scene as a whole
and with the component colour contrasts brought
into effective relationship. Sometimes a slightly
tattered effect is given, as if the treatment had
been too hasty for the deliberation which the
admirable sense of composition expresses.
At the Ryder Gallery Mr. A. Lys Baldry has
been exhibiting some tempera landscapes, and
certainly the medium seems to suit his peculiar
talent and that simple and pleasant style which,
with a sympathetically expressed preference for a
certain character of subject, are to be identified
always with his name.
BIRMINGHAM.—Following up a sugges-
tion made by the Lord Mayor (Sir
George Kenrick) when he opened the
annual exhibition of the Royal Society
of Artists in the Autumn of 1908, the Society
in their last Autumn exhibition included a small
section of Arts and Crafts, representing principally
work by local artists and past and present students
of the Birmingham Schools of Art The contri-
butors numbered 58, and the exhibits about 300,
chiefly jewellery and metal work, as was to be ex-
SILVER PRESENTATION CUP INLAID WITH STONES
BY EDWD. STEELE HARPER
53
CHISELLED STEEL BOXES BY THOMAS P. SPALL
to a very large public by reason of the deep feeling
expressed in them. They give a synthesis of the
emotions which affect this painter most in the
presence of nature, but they are conventionalised
to Mr. Peppercorn's own convention. Therefore
his water-colours in which, so to speak, contact
with nature is more directly shown, have quite a
different character, and there will be found people
who will respond to their acute realism more than
to the artist's oil paintings.
At the same galleries some water-colours by Mr.
Wynne Apperley were on view. These varied in
merit, but at his best the highest praise is due to
Mr. Apperley. The Basin of St. Mark, On the
Grand Canal, Varenna, Lake Cotno, showed a
peculiar ability to see a crowded scene as a whole
and with the component colour contrasts brought
into effective relationship. Sometimes a slightly
tattered effect is given, as if the treatment had
been too hasty for the deliberation which the
admirable sense of composition expresses.
At the Ryder Gallery Mr. A. Lys Baldry has
been exhibiting some tempera landscapes, and
certainly the medium seems to suit his peculiar
talent and that simple and pleasant style which,
with a sympathetically expressed preference for a
certain character of subject, are to be identified
always with his name.
BIRMINGHAM.—Following up a sugges-
tion made by the Lord Mayor (Sir
George Kenrick) when he opened the
annual exhibition of the Royal Society
of Artists in the Autumn of 1908, the Society
in their last Autumn exhibition included a small
section of Arts and Crafts, representing principally
work by local artists and past and present students
of the Birmingham Schools of Art The contri-
butors numbered 58, and the exhibits about 300,
chiefly jewellery and metal work, as was to be ex-
SILVER PRESENTATION CUP INLAID WITH STONES
BY EDWD. STEELE HARPER
53