DOI Heft:
No. 214 (December 1914)
DOI Artikel:Taylor, J.: The fifty-third exhibition of the Royal Glasgow Institute
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43457#0172
Exhibition of the Royal Glasgow Institute
“in France” by w. a. gibson
Mr. Hornel, with amazing industry considering
his elaborate technique, sends three important
pictures, the principal being A Cheery Salute.
Subject with Hornel is a secondary matter, the
prime factor is extraction from a wonderful palette
of a magical mosaic. There were never such tints
on canvas, such combinations, such harmonies.
They are visions of a wonderland, arranged and
presented by perhaps the most original-minded of
living painters. Original his work may be, and is,
but it carries a message of more significance than
mere originality, rare though that quality be. It
sets the children in a realm of beauty and delight,
and dares any man to say such is not their natural,
their rightful environment.
Other notable landscapes are contributed by
Mr. J. Whitelaw Hamilton, A.R.S.A., whose work
is charged with poetic sensibility; by Mr. E. A.
Talton, R.S.A., whose Rainbow shows fine com-
position, tender tonal harmony, and clever diffusion
of light in cloudland; by Mr. David Gauld, who
succeeds in capturing the atmospheric distinction
of France in his Pastoral and Montreuil-sur-Mer ;
by Mr. David Murray, R.A., in a sunlit Venetian
waterway with shipping; by Mr. J. S. Hill, R.I., in
a wonderfully atmospheric transcription of Durham;
by Mr. Hugh Munro in Resting, subjectively and
tonally reticent, and promising as the work of a
young artist; and by Mr. A. R. W. Allen, whose
February is charged with the poetry of the fields.
If there be paucity of interest it is to be found in
the water-colour section. Is the delicate medium
out of favour locally, when this room is dominated
in interest by a German professor, and an English
water colourist ? There are two choice productions
by Mr. A. K. Brown, R.S.A. ; a church interior and
a seascape of distinguished quality by Mr. James
G. Laing ; a sympathetic drawing of the old Cinque
Port, “ Rye,” with evening effect, by Miss Katherine
Cameron, R.S.W., and characteristic drawings by
Mr. Ewan Geddes, Mr. Nisbet Bain and Miss
Jessie M. King, but for the most part, aquarelle
as a medium seems unhappily neglected.
The Sculpture section is distinguished by
examples of the art of Rombaux, Krieger, and
Meunier, lent by the Belgian Government, a
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“in France” by w. a. gibson
Mr. Hornel, with amazing industry considering
his elaborate technique, sends three important
pictures, the principal being A Cheery Salute.
Subject with Hornel is a secondary matter, the
prime factor is extraction from a wonderful palette
of a magical mosaic. There were never such tints
on canvas, such combinations, such harmonies.
They are visions of a wonderland, arranged and
presented by perhaps the most original-minded of
living painters. Original his work may be, and is,
but it carries a message of more significance than
mere originality, rare though that quality be. It
sets the children in a realm of beauty and delight,
and dares any man to say such is not their natural,
their rightful environment.
Other notable landscapes are contributed by
Mr. J. Whitelaw Hamilton, A.R.S.A., whose work
is charged with poetic sensibility; by Mr. E. A.
Talton, R.S.A., whose Rainbow shows fine com-
position, tender tonal harmony, and clever diffusion
of light in cloudland; by Mr. David Gauld, who
succeeds in capturing the atmospheric distinction
of France in his Pastoral and Montreuil-sur-Mer ;
by Mr. David Murray, R.A., in a sunlit Venetian
waterway with shipping; by Mr. J. S. Hill, R.I., in
a wonderfully atmospheric transcription of Durham;
by Mr. Hugh Munro in Resting, subjectively and
tonally reticent, and promising as the work of a
young artist; and by Mr. A. R. W. Allen, whose
February is charged with the poetry of the fields.
If there be paucity of interest it is to be found in
the water-colour section. Is the delicate medium
out of favour locally, when this room is dominated
in interest by a German professor, and an English
water colourist ? There are two choice productions
by Mr. A. K. Brown, R.S.A. ; a church interior and
a seascape of distinguished quality by Mr. James
G. Laing ; a sympathetic drawing of the old Cinque
Port, “ Rye,” with evening effect, by Miss Katherine
Cameron, R.S.W., and characteristic drawings by
Mr. Ewan Geddes, Mr. Nisbet Bain and Miss
Jessie M. King, but for the most part, aquarelle
as a medium seems unhappily neglected.
The Sculpture section is distinguished by
examples of the art of Rombaux, Krieger, and
Meunier, lent by the Belgian Government, a
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