DOI issue:
Nr. 174 (August, 1911)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43447#0201
Studio- Talk
of
is
of
in
very spirit of things—the meaning that rests be-
neath the surface which music so easily reveals.
In
with
too
Mr.
catalogue was prefaced by a note from Mr. H. G.
Wells, whose claim that in these drawings of India
he finds for the first time in art, or even in literature,
the sense of the personalities of its people, as
distinct from a conception of countless slender
brown men in loin-cloths, sums up in the best
possible words the secret that is reached in Mr.
Rothenstein’s sympathetic pencil lines.
Mr. Andrew F. Affleck held an exhibition of
pencil drawings of architectural character at Messrs.
Connell and Son’s, where his etchings are frequently
exhibited. His drawings have an astonishing
cleverness and precision, they lose perhaps a little
from the flecks of colour that are applied not quite
in the same spirit as the realistic pencil work,
the difficulty of dealing in a spirited manner
masses of intricate tracery without relying
much upon mere summary and suggestion
Affleck is especially successful.
The main object of the Walpole Society,
recently formed for promoting the study and appre-
ciation of British Art, is to
make provision for the col¬
lection, preservation and
classification of material for
facilitating such study. As
the usefulness of the Society
must depend to a large extent
upon the number of its mem¬
bers, all who desire to see the
achievements of the great
school of British Art better
known and more adequately
appreciated are urgently in¬
vited to join the Society.
The annual subscription for
members is one guinea, which
will entitle them to receive a
copy of all the Society’s pub¬
lications. One of the func¬
tions of the Society will be
to organise exhibitions and
arrange for the delivery
lectures. Lord Lytton
president and the names
many men of distinction
the art world figure on the
committee. The hon. secre¬
tary is Mr. A. J. Finberg, The
Arts Club, 40 Dover Street.
The Leicester Galleries have been holding an
exhibition of landscapes by Mr. H. Hughes-
Stanton A.R.W.S., an artist who never exhibits
now without increasing his reputation. It is
possible to compare his art with Mr. Peppercorn’s
in its sympathy with mood in nature, rather than
with mere effect. At the same galleries were also
shown one hundred water-colours by the late Mr.
John MacWhirter, R.A., better remembered by his
big Academy pictures than by his sketches, yet
perhaps in the light of this exhibition most
deservedly to be remembered for the latter, with
their quick synthesis of detail and eager enthusiasm
for fresh impression.
Mr. William Rothenstein
has been exhibiting at the
Chenil Gallery drawings
made in India. His
146
“OLD CHELSEA CHURCH AT NIGHT ” BY WALTER GREAVES
(By special permission of Messrs. Wm. Marchant and Co.)
of
is
of
in
very spirit of things—the meaning that rests be-
neath the surface which music so easily reveals.
In
with
too
Mr.
catalogue was prefaced by a note from Mr. H. G.
Wells, whose claim that in these drawings of India
he finds for the first time in art, or even in literature,
the sense of the personalities of its people, as
distinct from a conception of countless slender
brown men in loin-cloths, sums up in the best
possible words the secret that is reached in Mr.
Rothenstein’s sympathetic pencil lines.
Mr. Andrew F. Affleck held an exhibition of
pencil drawings of architectural character at Messrs.
Connell and Son’s, where his etchings are frequently
exhibited. His drawings have an astonishing
cleverness and precision, they lose perhaps a little
from the flecks of colour that are applied not quite
in the same spirit as the realistic pencil work,
the difficulty of dealing in a spirited manner
masses of intricate tracery without relying
much upon mere summary and suggestion
Affleck is especially successful.
The main object of the Walpole Society,
recently formed for promoting the study and appre-
ciation of British Art, is to
make provision for the col¬
lection, preservation and
classification of material for
facilitating such study. As
the usefulness of the Society
must depend to a large extent
upon the number of its mem¬
bers, all who desire to see the
achievements of the great
school of British Art better
known and more adequately
appreciated are urgently in¬
vited to join the Society.
The annual subscription for
members is one guinea, which
will entitle them to receive a
copy of all the Society’s pub¬
lications. One of the func¬
tions of the Society will be
to organise exhibitions and
arrange for the delivery
lectures. Lord Lytton
president and the names
many men of distinction
the art world figure on the
committee. The hon. secre¬
tary is Mr. A. J. Finberg, The
Arts Club, 40 Dover Street.
The Leicester Galleries have been holding an
exhibition of landscapes by Mr. H. Hughes-
Stanton A.R.W.S., an artist who never exhibits
now without increasing his reputation. It is
possible to compare his art with Mr. Peppercorn’s
in its sympathy with mood in nature, rather than
with mere effect. At the same galleries were also
shown one hundred water-colours by the late Mr.
John MacWhirter, R.A., better remembered by his
big Academy pictures than by his sketches, yet
perhaps in the light of this exhibition most
deservedly to be remembered for the latter, with
their quick synthesis of detail and eager enthusiasm
for fresh impression.
Mr. William Rothenstein
has been exhibiting at the
Chenil Gallery drawings
made in India. His
146
“OLD CHELSEA CHURCH AT NIGHT ” BY WALTER GREAVES
(By special permission of Messrs. Wm. Marchant and Co.)