DOI issue:
Nr. 175 (September, 1911)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43447#0297
Studio- Talk
painters because entirely our own. And in line
with them, and in his own medium perhaps not so
very far behind them as an artist, it places Seymour
Haden, whose memorial exhibition has just been
held at the Leicester Gallery.
Mr. Courtenay Pollock’s bust of Mrs. Julia
Worthington of New York, reproduced opposite,
was executed during the sculptor’s recent visit to
America, and will add to the reputation for sculp-
ture portraits that Mr. Pollock has been making.
In this vein his N/r Hubert Parry, also illustrated,
is among his chief successes.
We are also reproducing two pictures from the
Royal Academy Exhibition by Mr. Melton Fisher
and Mr. Stanhope Forbes, R.A., respectively, which
we were unable to include
House, were typical of the vein in which he rises
to an art of unusual interest.
The Goupil Gallery have lately been exhibiting
oil-paintings by Mr. Romaine Brooks. It is a very
interesting talent that we have here, and a very
personal one. It is true that the colour-scheme
tends to impart an appearance of decomposition to
some of the attenuated nudes that Mr. Brooks is so
fond of; and it is true that black seems to exclude
every other colour as a motif in these schemes,
each picture being repeated in the same key; but
even this, though marking limitation, serves up to
a highly decorative point of view, to which each sub-
ject in turn is adjusted with really exceptional skill.
The Calderon Art Society’s Exhibition, which is
with the illustrations to our
review of the exhibition, but
which were referred to therein
as among the interesting
works shown this year.
Mr. G. Spencer Watson,
whose portrait of a little boy
we reproduce, is a painter who
has made his successes in the
field of portraiture where
success is most difficult to
come by, to wit, that of child-
portraiture.
At the Baillie Gallery in
June Mr. Romilly Fedden
held an exhibition. Mr.
Fedden is an artist with a
sense, of the impressiveness
of just certain phases of
natural beauty — summer
nights, moonlight in forsaken
streets, and the bright mass
of colour of turbaned Arabs
in strong sunlight—the last,
an effect beloved of Melville.
These obtain from Mr.
Fedden a technical success
not altogether removed in
style from that of Melville’s,
which is not forthcoming in
every subject that he takes
up. The exhibition was full
of inequalities, but Carnival,
Munich, and The Moonlit
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BY COURTENAY POLLOCK
painters because entirely our own. And in line
with them, and in his own medium perhaps not so
very far behind them as an artist, it places Seymour
Haden, whose memorial exhibition has just been
held at the Leicester Gallery.
Mr. Courtenay Pollock’s bust of Mrs. Julia
Worthington of New York, reproduced opposite,
was executed during the sculptor’s recent visit to
America, and will add to the reputation for sculp-
ture portraits that Mr. Pollock has been making.
In this vein his N/r Hubert Parry, also illustrated,
is among his chief successes.
We are also reproducing two pictures from the
Royal Academy Exhibition by Mr. Melton Fisher
and Mr. Stanhope Forbes, R.A., respectively, which
we were unable to include
House, were typical of the vein in which he rises
to an art of unusual interest.
The Goupil Gallery have lately been exhibiting
oil-paintings by Mr. Romaine Brooks. It is a very
interesting talent that we have here, and a very
personal one. It is true that the colour-scheme
tends to impart an appearance of decomposition to
some of the attenuated nudes that Mr. Brooks is so
fond of; and it is true that black seems to exclude
every other colour as a motif in these schemes,
each picture being repeated in the same key; but
even this, though marking limitation, serves up to
a highly decorative point of view, to which each sub-
ject in turn is adjusted with really exceptional skill.
The Calderon Art Society’s Exhibition, which is
with the illustrations to our
review of the exhibition, but
which were referred to therein
as among the interesting
works shown this year.
Mr. G. Spencer Watson,
whose portrait of a little boy
we reproduce, is a painter who
has made his successes in the
field of portraiture where
success is most difficult to
come by, to wit, that of child-
portraiture.
At the Baillie Gallery in
June Mr. Romilly Fedden
held an exhibition. Mr.
Fedden is an artist with a
sense, of the impressiveness
of just certain phases of
natural beauty — summer
nights, moonlight in forsaken
streets, and the bright mass
of colour of turbaned Arabs
in strong sunlight—the last,
an effect beloved of Melville.
These obtain from Mr.
Fedden a technical success
not altogether removed in
style from that of Melville’s,
which is not forthcoming in
every subject that he takes
up. The exhibition was full
of inequalities, but Carnival,
Munich, and The Moonlit
226
BUST OK SIR HUBERT I’ARRY, MUS.DOC.
BY COURTENAY POLLOCK