DOI issue:
Nr. 229 (March 1916)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43461#0088
Studio-Talk
Other winter landscapes worthy of special men-
tion were those of Mr. Charles W. Simpson, whose
Winter in the Harbour was a pleasing arrangement
in blue and silver; and of Mr. Clarence Gagnon,
whose Late Afternoon Sun, Winter, was admirably
luminous. Mr. A. D. Rosaire’s three pictures,
and in particular The New Building, attested the
maturing powers of this promising artist. Mr. H.
Ivan Neilson’s An October Pastoral, Cap Rouge,
Quebec, and A Bend of the River by Mr. Percy F.
Woodcock, who, after a prolonged absence from
Canada, has returned to become again an active
member of the Academy, are also deserving of
appreciative reference.
The contributions from Ontario artists included
some strong and convincing landscapes of the
North Country by Mr. J. W. Beatty, Mr. Franklin
Brownell, Mr. Arthur Lismer, Mr. J. E. H. Mac-
Donald and Mr. Herbert S. Palmer. Morning,
Algonquin Park, by Mr. Beatty, was a particularly
impressive work and represented this artist at his
best. Mr. MacDonald, whose paintings are dis-
tinguished by breadth and bigness of feeling, was
exceptionally happy in his rendering of skies. Mr.
Archibald Browne showed three characteristically
poetic pictures, while Mr. Harry Britton exhibited
four large paintings agreeable in colour and
arrangement. The Express Stand, by Mr. T. G.
Greene, also possessed good qualities, and some-
thing of the vastness of the prairie country and the
feeling it inspires was well suggested in Mr. L. L.
Fitzgerald’s Prairie Trail. Mr. Horatio Walker’s
Lime Burners at Night was scarcely as convincing
as some of the examples of this artist’s work
exhibited in Montreal on former occasions. In
Sunlit Seas, delightful alike in colour and senti-
ment and essentially individual, Mr. Albert H.
Robinson achieved a notable success.
In addition to a meritorious landscape in quiet,
cool tones, Mr. Homer Watson exhibited three
large paintings for the execution of which he was
commissioned by the Canadian Department of
Militia. They deal with the mobilisation of the
troops, comprising the First Canadian Expedi-
tionary Force, at Valcartier Camp, Quebec, shortly
after the declaration of war. Although the incident
was one of great historical interest, its recording
artistically was under the obtaining conditions
“ NUDE FIGURE ”
(Royal Canadian Academy)
BY W. BRYMNER, P.R.C.A.
Other winter landscapes worthy of special men-
tion were those of Mr. Charles W. Simpson, whose
Winter in the Harbour was a pleasing arrangement
in blue and silver; and of Mr. Clarence Gagnon,
whose Late Afternoon Sun, Winter, was admirably
luminous. Mr. A. D. Rosaire’s three pictures,
and in particular The New Building, attested the
maturing powers of this promising artist. Mr. H.
Ivan Neilson’s An October Pastoral, Cap Rouge,
Quebec, and A Bend of the River by Mr. Percy F.
Woodcock, who, after a prolonged absence from
Canada, has returned to become again an active
member of the Academy, are also deserving of
appreciative reference.
The contributions from Ontario artists included
some strong and convincing landscapes of the
North Country by Mr. J. W. Beatty, Mr. Franklin
Brownell, Mr. Arthur Lismer, Mr. J. E. H. Mac-
Donald and Mr. Herbert S. Palmer. Morning,
Algonquin Park, by Mr. Beatty, was a particularly
impressive work and represented this artist at his
best. Mr. MacDonald, whose paintings are dis-
tinguished by breadth and bigness of feeling, was
exceptionally happy in his rendering of skies. Mr.
Archibald Browne showed three characteristically
poetic pictures, while Mr. Harry Britton exhibited
four large paintings agreeable in colour and
arrangement. The Express Stand, by Mr. T. G.
Greene, also possessed good qualities, and some-
thing of the vastness of the prairie country and the
feeling it inspires was well suggested in Mr. L. L.
Fitzgerald’s Prairie Trail. Mr. Horatio Walker’s
Lime Burners at Night was scarcely as convincing
as some of the examples of this artist’s work
exhibited in Montreal on former occasions. In
Sunlit Seas, delightful alike in colour and senti-
ment and essentially individual, Mr. Albert H.
Robinson achieved a notable success.
In addition to a meritorious landscape in quiet,
cool tones, Mr. Homer Watson exhibited three
large paintings for the execution of which he was
commissioned by the Canadian Department of
Militia. They deal with the mobilisation of the
troops, comprising the First Canadian Expedi-
tionary Force, at Valcartier Camp, Quebec, shortly
after the declaration of war. Although the incident
was one of great historical interest, its recording
artistically was under the obtaining conditions
“ NUDE FIGURE ”
(Royal Canadian Academy)
BY W. BRYMNER, P.R.C.A.