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DOI Artikel:Baker, C. H. Collins: The paintings of Walter W. Russell
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0249
Walter W. Russell
the caligraphy, the easy line in which they are earlier days we would look to"pictures of the type
drawn, their apparently effortless directness and of Children in the Bam (1896). Therein we find
the wide range of curiosity they reveal : interiors the disposition of the light and shade that charac-
of queer rooms, of circuses ; landscapes, building terized his paintings of interiors up to The Mirror
operations, scaffoldings and cranes, and numerous of 1902, and the charming Prints of 1903. In
studies from the nude, and from the life in the brief, this arrangement was one of concentrated
streets about him. light, as opposed to the diffusion of his present
In 1893 he had his first exhibit hung by the latest period. On to the children lying in the
New English Art Club, of which in 1895 he was dim twilight of the great barn; on to the
made member. As an oil painter his development girl who pensively, almost absently, surveys her
has been consistent, his evolution ordered. Of pleasant image in the glass ; or the girl who with
his earlier manner, that of the mid nineties, a the same gentle wistfulness looks up from her idle
marked trait was the influence of his habitude to occupation with the prints, the light carefully is
pencil work on his handling of the brush. In his focussed, and the shadows, subtly gradated, frame
portraits especially was employed a delicate, almost it in. Characteristic also of those earlier pictures
caressing, treatment of the modelling, much as fine and of a Sussex series of children out of doors, is
pencil lines run sensitively over form. It was their gentle charm, a kind of romantic quality well
this particular research for drawing that fitted his becoming the mysterious atmosphere that fills the
brush to break out later into its expressive freedom, corners of the pictures, and the pleasant refinement
For his arrangement of the tone scheme of his of their colour schemes. The colour plate of
" cafe-billard' (1906)
172
bv walter w. russell
the caligraphy, the easy line in which they are earlier days we would look to"pictures of the type
drawn, their apparently effortless directness and of Children in the Bam (1896). Therein we find
the wide range of curiosity they reveal : interiors the disposition of the light and shade that charac-
of queer rooms, of circuses ; landscapes, building terized his paintings of interiors up to The Mirror
operations, scaffoldings and cranes, and numerous of 1902, and the charming Prints of 1903. In
studies from the nude, and from the life in the brief, this arrangement was one of concentrated
streets about him. light, as opposed to the diffusion of his present
In 1893 he had his first exhibit hung by the latest period. On to the children lying in the
New English Art Club, of which in 1895 he was dim twilight of the great barn; on to the
made member. As an oil painter his development girl who pensively, almost absently, surveys her
has been consistent, his evolution ordered. Of pleasant image in the glass ; or the girl who with
his earlier manner, that of the mid nineties, a the same gentle wistfulness looks up from her idle
marked trait was the influence of his habitude to occupation with the prints, the light carefully is
pencil work on his handling of the brush. In his focussed, and the shadows, subtly gradated, frame
portraits especially was employed a delicate, almost it in. Characteristic also of those earlier pictures
caressing, treatment of the modelling, much as fine and of a Sussex series of children out of doors, is
pencil lines run sensitively over form. It was their gentle charm, a kind of romantic quality well
this particular research for drawing that fitted his becoming the mysterious atmosphere that fills the
brush to break out later into its expressive freedom, corners of the pictures, and the pleasant refinement
For his arrangement of the tone scheme of his of their colour schemes. The colour plate of
" cafe-billard' (1906)
172
bv walter w. russell