DOI Heft:
Nr. 161 (July, 1910)
DOI Artikel:The Royal Academy exhibition, 1910
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0030
The Royal Academy Exhibition, igio
amazingly convincing is the sumptuous, decisive,
and confident picture, Wine, by Mr. Brangwyn,
who is as sure of himself as ever in his control of
executive devices and in his management of colour
harmonies. Another artist who does finely things
which few other men attempt is Mr. Harold Speed;
his Apollo and Daphne has a virile quality of
design and a significance of decorative suggestion
which can be unreservedly commended.
There is a decorative intention, though it is less
happily realised, in Mr. Abbey's two large panels,
The Camp of the American Army at Valley Forge,
and Penn's Treaty with the Indians ; he has achieved
much, but he has missed some of the finer essen-
tials of design. His work is a little superficial, a
little thin and cheap in effect; it must be counted
as clever scene painting rather than as true decora-
tion. Mr. E. R. Frampton has perhaps succeeded
better in his more conventionalised panel, The
Sleep of Summer, which has more reticence and
subtlety of feeling. Mr. Edward Stott, again, has
conceived his two compositions, The Good Samari-
tan, and There was no Room in the Inn, in a rightly
decorative spirit, though he has not neglected the
opportunities which the subjects have afforded of
working out schemes of unconventional arrange-
ment ; and both Mr. E. A. Hornel, in his Earth's
Au'akening, and Professor Moira, in his sym-
bolical composition, London, show themselves to
be possessed of a full measure of the decorator's
spirit.
Able figure-painters of another type are ade-
quately represented in the exhibition. There are
to be noted, for instance, such pictures as Mr.
Edgar Bundy's The Herring Season, an extra-
ordinarily able piece of robust realism, Mr. J. W.
West's A Saucer of Milk, Mr. Campbell Taylor's
The Lady of the Castle, Sir Lawrence Alma
Tadema's The Voice of Spring, Mr. Algernon
Talmage's The Mackerel Shawl, very agreeable in
its unusual scheme of colour, and The Pier Head,
by Mr. Stanhope Forbes, which claim attention on
the ground that they have personal characteristics
of an attractive and interesting kind ; and there are
"THE GREEN POOL" 11Y ALFRED EAST, A.R.A.
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amazingly convincing is the sumptuous, decisive,
and confident picture, Wine, by Mr. Brangwyn,
who is as sure of himself as ever in his control of
executive devices and in his management of colour
harmonies. Another artist who does finely things
which few other men attempt is Mr. Harold Speed;
his Apollo and Daphne has a virile quality of
design and a significance of decorative suggestion
which can be unreservedly commended.
There is a decorative intention, though it is less
happily realised, in Mr. Abbey's two large panels,
The Camp of the American Army at Valley Forge,
and Penn's Treaty with the Indians ; he has achieved
much, but he has missed some of the finer essen-
tials of design. His work is a little superficial, a
little thin and cheap in effect; it must be counted
as clever scene painting rather than as true decora-
tion. Mr. E. R. Frampton has perhaps succeeded
better in his more conventionalised panel, The
Sleep of Summer, which has more reticence and
subtlety of feeling. Mr. Edward Stott, again, has
conceived his two compositions, The Good Samari-
tan, and There was no Room in the Inn, in a rightly
decorative spirit, though he has not neglected the
opportunities which the subjects have afforded of
working out schemes of unconventional arrange-
ment ; and both Mr. E. A. Hornel, in his Earth's
Au'akening, and Professor Moira, in his sym-
bolical composition, London, show themselves to
be possessed of a full measure of the decorator's
spirit.
Able figure-painters of another type are ade-
quately represented in the exhibition. There are
to be noted, for instance, such pictures as Mr.
Edgar Bundy's The Herring Season, an extra-
ordinarily able piece of robust realism, Mr. J. W.
West's A Saucer of Milk, Mr. Campbell Taylor's
The Lady of the Castle, Sir Lawrence Alma
Tadema's The Voice of Spring, Mr. Algernon
Talmage's The Mackerel Shawl, very agreeable in
its unusual scheme of colour, and The Pier Head,
by Mr. Stanhope Forbes, which claim attention on
the ground that they have personal characteristics
of an attractive and interesting kind ; and there are
"THE GREEN POOL" 11Y ALFRED EAST, A.R.A.
6