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Studio-Talk
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Studio-Talk
‘•WINTER EVENING, MONTREAL”
BY MAURICE CULLEN
present exhibition might, moreover, have been raised
to a higher level by more careful selection to the
exclusion of several pictures of relatively mediocre
quality contributed by members not content to be
represented by their best only.
Chief interest this year centred in the contribu-
tions of non-resident members, the canvases of
Mr. Ernest Lawson and Mr. J. W. Morrice being
especially fine. Mr. Lawson’s work is now so well
known in London that it were superfluous to
generalise on it here. He showed four eminently
sincere and personal examples of his art, all charac-
terised by a broad and masterly handling and fine
colour. His Dieppe—The Beach will be reckoned
as among his masterpieces. Although so different in
feeling, in treatment, and in subject it possesses the
impressiveness, the majesty of Courbet’s Wave, and
it is. therefore with the utmost satisfaction one
learns that this superb work has been purchased
by the Canadian Government to enrich the national
collection. Of the other pictures by this artist,
his winter landscape Old Halton House—Sherbrooke
Street, Montreal, was particularly interesting. At
first glance it did not appear to be more than a
carelessly drawn sketch, the brushing in of which
could not have occupied more than an hour, and
was so thinly painted in parts that the bare canvas
showed through. Yet when properly viewed on the
exhibition walls it impelled attention as a complete
and finished work of exquisite tonality.
As a portrait-painter Mr. Curtis Williamson, ot
Toronto, has no rival in Canada. The portraits
he exhibited on this occasion, namely, the D. R.
Wilkie, Esq., and the William Cruikshanks, Esq.,
were admirable, particularly the latter work. Mr.
Williamson’s Shacks at Night, representing a group
of broken-down wooden dwellings of the Toronto
slums, over which, in the background, the massive
walls of the modern sky-scraping buildings tower in
strength and dignity, was another eminently vital
work. Mr. Horatio Walker was represented by two
important canvases, both of them, however, some-
what reminiscent in colour and feeling of Millet.
Other noteworthy work included Mr. Maurice
Cullen’s Winter Evening, Montreal, Mr. Homer
Watson’s The Truants, Mr. W. E. Atkinson’s Dis-
persing Clouds and Breton Farm, Mr. Archibald
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‘•WINTER EVENING, MONTREAL”
BY MAURICE CULLEN
present exhibition might, moreover, have been raised
to a higher level by more careful selection to the
exclusion of several pictures of relatively mediocre
quality contributed by members not content to be
represented by their best only.
Chief interest this year centred in the contribu-
tions of non-resident members, the canvases of
Mr. Ernest Lawson and Mr. J. W. Morrice being
especially fine. Mr. Lawson’s work is now so well
known in London that it were superfluous to
generalise on it here. He showed four eminently
sincere and personal examples of his art, all charac-
terised by a broad and masterly handling and fine
colour. His Dieppe—The Beach will be reckoned
as among his masterpieces. Although so different in
feeling, in treatment, and in subject it possesses the
impressiveness, the majesty of Courbet’s Wave, and
it is. therefore with the utmost satisfaction one
learns that this superb work has been purchased
by the Canadian Government to enrich the national
collection. Of the other pictures by this artist,
his winter landscape Old Halton House—Sherbrooke
Street, Montreal, was particularly interesting. At
first glance it did not appear to be more than a
carelessly drawn sketch, the brushing in of which
could not have occupied more than an hour, and
was so thinly painted in parts that the bare canvas
showed through. Yet when properly viewed on the
exhibition walls it impelled attention as a complete
and finished work of exquisite tonality.
As a portrait-painter Mr. Curtis Williamson, ot
Toronto, has no rival in Canada. The portraits
he exhibited on this occasion, namely, the D. R.
Wilkie, Esq., and the William Cruikshanks, Esq.,
were admirable, particularly the latter work. Mr.
Williamson’s Shacks at Night, representing a group
of broken-down wooden dwellings of the Toronto
slums, over which, in the background, the massive
walls of the modern sky-scraping buildings tower in
strength and dignity, was another eminently vital
work. Mr. Horatio Walker was represented by two
important canvases, both of them, however, some-
what reminiscent in colour and feeling of Millet.
Other noteworthy work included Mr. Maurice
Cullen’s Winter Evening, Montreal, Mr. Homer
Watson’s The Truants, Mr. W. E. Atkinson’s Dis-
persing Clouds and Breton Farm, Mr. Archibald
327