DOI issue:
Nr. 159 (May 1910)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0304
Studio- Talk
THE PLAINS OF LORA BY J. CAMPBELL MITCHELL, A. R.S.A.
The honours of the exhibition undoubtedly lie
with the landscapists. I do not remember an
Academy Exhibition in which there was so much
work in this department evidencing clear thinking
and well ordered and disciplined expression.
Mr. Charles H. Mackie's La Piazetta, Venice, in
brilliance and subtlety, reaches a higher level
than he had previously attained as a colourist. A
great step forward has also been made in his
Plains of Lot a by Mr. Campbell Mitchell, who
has devoted a large part of his work to the study
of cumuli. Mr. W. Y. Macgregor's Richmond,
Yorks., is characteristically strong in its colour con-
trasts, and Mr. A. K. Brown has an inspiring view
of a Scottish Keep in a wintry garb. Two attrac-
tive East Lothian landscapes are shown by Mr.
Robert Noble, and Mr. James Cadenhead has a
large moorland subject in which the declining
sun just tips the hill-tops with gold.
A never faltering devotion to the simple and
serene in nature is evidenced in the work of Mr.
J. Lawton Wingate, always so sincere and accom-
plished, and never more convincing than in his sun-
lit Gargunnock. A morning and evening effect on
the sea by Mr. Robert Burns, almost monochro-
matic, are subtly expressed, and one of the out-
standing landscapes is Mr. W. S. MacGeorge's
view of salmon fishers at dusk drawing their nets
in the estuary of the Kirkcudbright Dee. Mr. D-
Y. Cameron's noble Hills of Skye, their azure
aiguilles rising in austere grandeur, are as impres-
sive as his Nightfall at Luxor is charged with the
mysticism of the East. Other landscapes of note
are Mr. James Paterson's lona, a winter scene
by Mr. George Houston, in which the effect of
light on snow is rendered with exceeding truth,
and an Eventide at East Linton by Mr. W. M.
Frazer. Mr. P. W. Adam has never been seen
to more advantage than in two interiors.
Figure studies and genre contribute a fair pro-
portion of the work. Mr. James Paterson's The
Mantilla is quite a departure for this artist, and its
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THE PLAINS OF LORA BY J. CAMPBELL MITCHELL, A. R.S.A.
The honours of the exhibition undoubtedly lie
with the landscapists. I do not remember an
Academy Exhibition in which there was so much
work in this department evidencing clear thinking
and well ordered and disciplined expression.
Mr. Charles H. Mackie's La Piazetta, Venice, in
brilliance and subtlety, reaches a higher level
than he had previously attained as a colourist. A
great step forward has also been made in his
Plains of Lot a by Mr. Campbell Mitchell, who
has devoted a large part of his work to the study
of cumuli. Mr. W. Y. Macgregor's Richmond,
Yorks., is characteristically strong in its colour con-
trasts, and Mr. A. K. Brown has an inspiring view
of a Scottish Keep in a wintry garb. Two attrac-
tive East Lothian landscapes are shown by Mr.
Robert Noble, and Mr. James Cadenhead has a
large moorland subject in which the declining
sun just tips the hill-tops with gold.
A never faltering devotion to the simple and
serene in nature is evidenced in the work of Mr.
J. Lawton Wingate, always so sincere and accom-
plished, and never more convincing than in his sun-
lit Gargunnock. A morning and evening effect on
the sea by Mr. Robert Burns, almost monochro-
matic, are subtly expressed, and one of the out-
standing landscapes is Mr. W. S. MacGeorge's
view of salmon fishers at dusk drawing their nets
in the estuary of the Kirkcudbright Dee. Mr. D-
Y. Cameron's noble Hills of Skye, their azure
aiguilles rising in austere grandeur, are as impres-
sive as his Nightfall at Luxor is charged with the
mysticism of the East. Other landscapes of note
are Mr. James Paterson's lona, a winter scene
by Mr. George Houston, in which the effect of
light on snow is rendered with exceeding truth,
and an Eventide at East Linton by Mr. W. M.
Frazer. Mr. P. W. Adam has never been seen
to more advantage than in two interiors.
Figure studies and genre contribute a fair pro-
portion of the work. Mr. James Paterson's The
Mantilla is quite a departure for this artist, and its
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