DOI Heft:
Nr. 228 (February 1916)
DOI Artikel:Reddie, Arthur: Mr. Clausen's work in water-colour
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43460#0348
Mr. Clausens Work in Water-Colour
MR. CLAUSEN’S WORK IN
WATER-COLOUR.
It is now more than twenty years since
an article on Mr.-Clausen’s work, from the pen of
Mr. Dewey Bates, appeared in these pages (see
The Studio for April 1895), but from that time
onwards scarcely a year has passed by without one
or more reproductions of his paintings, generally
in connection with a review of the exhibitions
of the Royal Academy, figuring among the
illustrations in The Studio ; so that there is no
need, at the present moment, to touch upon a
side of his art with which readers of this magazine
are happily familiar. It is, therefore, not the pur-
pose of this short article to pass in review work so
widely known and so generally admired as the
painting of this distinguished member of the
Royal Academy, but to deal with another mani-
festation of his art.
Mr. Clausen’s position in the art world in this
country is a somewhat peculiar one, if not indeed
unique, for while he has for many years exercised
a valuable and inspiring influence upon students,
he has never ceased for a moment to be the keen-
est and most modest of students himself ; he has
never relaxed his vigorous and indefatigable search-
ing after truth, has never evinced any tendency
to stand still in his art or to lose sympathy with
modernity in his work. It is, one must suppose,
this profound and unaffected sincerity that enables
him, with all his Academic honours, to range
himself by the side of artists whose boast it is,
perhaps, to stand aloof from Academies, and to
take his place among men much younger, and yet
to reveal himself as possessed of as fresh an
outlook, as elastic a mind, and as youthful and
unconventional a vision as some of the most
enthusiastically modern among our painters. The
water-colours and drawings which he contributes
to the various exhibitions of the Royal Society of
Painters in Water-Colours—it must be more than
five and twenty years since he made his first appear-
ance at them—or to the interesting exhibitions of
“THEjSEINE FROM CHATEAU GAILLARD ”
(In the Possession of C. T. Harris, Esq.)
LVIII. No. 228.—February 1916
BY GEORGE CLAUSEN, R.A.
MR. CLAUSEN’S WORK IN
WATER-COLOUR.
It is now more than twenty years since
an article on Mr.-Clausen’s work, from the pen of
Mr. Dewey Bates, appeared in these pages (see
The Studio for April 1895), but from that time
onwards scarcely a year has passed by without one
or more reproductions of his paintings, generally
in connection with a review of the exhibitions
of the Royal Academy, figuring among the
illustrations in The Studio ; so that there is no
need, at the present moment, to touch upon a
side of his art with which readers of this magazine
are happily familiar. It is, therefore, not the pur-
pose of this short article to pass in review work so
widely known and so generally admired as the
painting of this distinguished member of the
Royal Academy, but to deal with another mani-
festation of his art.
Mr. Clausen’s position in the art world in this
country is a somewhat peculiar one, if not indeed
unique, for while he has for many years exercised
a valuable and inspiring influence upon students,
he has never ceased for a moment to be the keen-
est and most modest of students himself ; he has
never relaxed his vigorous and indefatigable search-
ing after truth, has never evinced any tendency
to stand still in his art or to lose sympathy with
modernity in his work. It is, one must suppose,
this profound and unaffected sincerity that enables
him, with all his Academic honours, to range
himself by the side of artists whose boast it is,
perhaps, to stand aloof from Academies, and to
take his place among men much younger, and yet
to reveal himself as possessed of as fresh an
outlook, as elastic a mind, and as youthful and
unconventional a vision as some of the most
enthusiastically modern among our painters. The
water-colours and drawings which he contributes
to the various exhibitions of the Royal Society of
Painters in Water-Colours—it must be more than
five and twenty years since he made his first appear-
ance at them—or to the interesting exhibitions of
“THEjSEINE FROM CHATEAU GAILLARD ”
(In the Possession of C. T. Harris, Esq.)
LVIII. No. 228.—February 1916
BY GEORGE CLAUSEN, R.A.