DOI issue:
Nr. 198 (August 1913)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43453#0166
Stuaio-Talk
“SPRING IN THE MOUNTAINS ”
(New English Art Club J
BY MAXWELL ARMFIELD
series of drawings by Mr. William Strang which
claimed a sincere welcome as examples of scholarly
and serious effort. Among them were many of
those portraits in coloured chalks which show well
what a sound draughtsman he is, and what a shrewd
and observant student of character ; and there were
also some studies—for certain of his pictures—
which displayed not less convincingly his sense
of style and his sureness in the statement of
realities. With these were included a number
of water-colours, excellent in their breadth of hand-
ling and firmness of touch.
Mr. W. W. Russell’s exhibition of oil paintings
and water-colours at the Goupil Gallery in Regent
Street included some of his most memorable
achievements. He has certainly done nothing
better than his Rochester Bridge and Calm Evening
on the Medway, wonderfully subtle records of
effects of atmosphere and illumination and admir-
able examples of sensitive and well-controlled
handling; and in other pictures like The River
Bend, Rochester, The Harbour, Looe, The Medway,
Low Tide, and the figure subjects At the Window
and The Broken Chain, he displayed his great
capacities in an especially convincing manner. The
exhibition was a fascinating one and was kept
throughout at a remarkably high level.
At Mr. McLean’s gallery Mr. Montague Smythe
recently brought together a considerable collection
of his paintings in oil and water-colour ; a collection
notable for its pleasant variety and its well-sustained
soundness of accomplishment. His daintily fanciful
manner of dealing with nature was persuasively
shown in subjects like Eventide, Moonlight, A
View, Hampstead Heath, and Pevensey Castle, and
in the tender water-colour notes, The Bather and
An Idyll. Many of his Japanese studies, too, were
markedly attractive in their delicate freshness and
beauty of suggestion. There is always in his work
a poetic quality which is the more worthy of praise
because it is too often lacking in the performances
of our present-day painters.
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“SPRING IN THE MOUNTAINS ”
(New English Art Club J
BY MAXWELL ARMFIELD
series of drawings by Mr. William Strang which
claimed a sincere welcome as examples of scholarly
and serious effort. Among them were many of
those portraits in coloured chalks which show well
what a sound draughtsman he is, and what a shrewd
and observant student of character ; and there were
also some studies—for certain of his pictures—
which displayed not less convincingly his sense
of style and his sureness in the statement of
realities. With these were included a number
of water-colours, excellent in their breadth of hand-
ling and firmness of touch.
Mr. W. W. Russell’s exhibition of oil paintings
and water-colours at the Goupil Gallery in Regent
Street included some of his most memorable
achievements. He has certainly done nothing
better than his Rochester Bridge and Calm Evening
on the Medway, wonderfully subtle records of
effects of atmosphere and illumination and admir-
able examples of sensitive and well-controlled
handling; and in other pictures like The River
Bend, Rochester, The Harbour, Looe, The Medway,
Low Tide, and the figure subjects At the Window
and The Broken Chain, he displayed his great
capacities in an especially convincing manner. The
exhibition was a fascinating one and was kept
throughout at a remarkably high level.
At Mr. McLean’s gallery Mr. Montague Smythe
recently brought together a considerable collection
of his paintings in oil and water-colour ; a collection
notable for its pleasant variety and its well-sustained
soundness of accomplishment. His daintily fanciful
manner of dealing with nature was persuasively
shown in subjects like Eventide, Moonlight, A
View, Hampstead Heath, and Pevensey Castle, and
in the tender water-colour notes, The Bather and
An Idyll. Many of his Japanese studies, too, were
markedly attractive in their delicate freshness and
beauty of suggestion. There is always in his work
a poetic quality which is the more worthy of praise
because it is too often lacking in the performances
of our present-day painters.
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