DOI Heft:
No. 216 (February 1915)
DOI Artikel:Churcher, Walter: The London Sketch Club
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43457#0365
The London Sketch Club
membership is confined to
professional artists. The
outstanding exception to this
rule is Lieut. - General Sir
Robert Baden-Powell, whose
special “ working member-
ship” is amply justified by
such admirable sketches as
his many engagements admit
of his executing, and his
keen interest in the club’s
aims.
In the examples of time
sketching with which the
INVITATION CARD BY LANCE THACKERAY
of the older Langham Sketching Club, is, as is
well known, the practice of rapid memory sketching
by gaslight from given subjects, and although
country residence and death have robbed the club
of some of its most gifted exponents in this difficult
exercise, much talent in this rapid work is con-
stantly being developed among new members.
Advantages gained by attendance at the weekly
sketching meetings during the winter accrue not
only to the established artist, who finds in them
welcome change of work, relief from studio solitude,
and in his evening’s work valuable studies for more
ambitious canvases, but to the younger member who
gains much by availing himself of the opportunities
afforded for associating with more practised ex-
ponents of memory sketching, noting their technical
methods, and thereby acquiring the confidence and
decision so essential in executing such rapid work.
It must be noted, however, that the working
WALTER.
CHURCHES.
Hois SEC.
WEDNESDAY
APRIL Is 190?
AT 3 O'CLOCK.
KI®
INVITATION CARD
BY FRANK REYNOLDS
LwtoMuB
Street
Friday. Dec' II” I9°8
MM MESS J
INVITATION CARD
BY JOHN HASSALL
244
members have kindly per-
mitted me to illustrate these
notes, little of the trail of
midnight oil is apparent, and
when it is remembered that
preliminary sketches or other
notes are not permitted at
the sketching meetings, the
remarkably truthful detail
and other evidence of close
observation of nature dis-
played in the evening’s work
afford striking instances of
the advantages gained from
the system of cultivating the
art memory.
It is unnecessary here to
enlarge on the work of the
membership is confined to
professional artists. The
outstanding exception to this
rule is Lieut. - General Sir
Robert Baden-Powell, whose
special “ working member-
ship” is amply justified by
such admirable sketches as
his many engagements admit
of his executing, and his
keen interest in the club’s
aims.
In the examples of time
sketching with which the
INVITATION CARD BY LANCE THACKERAY
of the older Langham Sketching Club, is, as is
well known, the practice of rapid memory sketching
by gaslight from given subjects, and although
country residence and death have robbed the club
of some of its most gifted exponents in this difficult
exercise, much talent in this rapid work is con-
stantly being developed among new members.
Advantages gained by attendance at the weekly
sketching meetings during the winter accrue not
only to the established artist, who finds in them
welcome change of work, relief from studio solitude,
and in his evening’s work valuable studies for more
ambitious canvases, but to the younger member who
gains much by availing himself of the opportunities
afforded for associating with more practised ex-
ponents of memory sketching, noting their technical
methods, and thereby acquiring the confidence and
decision so essential in executing such rapid work.
It must be noted, however, that the working
WALTER.
CHURCHES.
Hois SEC.
WEDNESDAY
APRIL Is 190?
AT 3 O'CLOCK.
KI®
INVITATION CARD
BY FRANK REYNOLDS
LwtoMuB
Street
Friday. Dec' II” I9°8
MM MESS J
INVITATION CARD
BY JOHN HASSALL
244
members have kindly per-
mitted me to illustrate these
notes, little of the trail of
midnight oil is apparent, and
when it is remembered that
preliminary sketches or other
notes are not permitted at
the sketching meetings, the
remarkably truthful detail
and other evidence of close
observation of nature dis-
played in the evening’s work
afford striking instances of
the advantages gained from
the system of cultivating the
art memory.
It is unnecessary here to
enlarge on the work of the