DOI Heft:
Nr. 231 (May 1916)
DOI Artikel:In the galleries
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43461#0315
In the Galleries
CORNER OF A GALLERY AT GOUPIL’S SHEWING ETCHINGS AND BRONZES
N THE GALLERIES
One of the finest exhibitions of American
artists, past and present, has been on view
at the Macbeth Galleries where it has been
possible to see some excellent Blakelocks side by
side with rare specimens of Inness, Wyant and
Martin. The Spring Academy and sculpture at
Gorham’s improvised garden have been noticed
in special articles.
THE GOLFER BY GENEVA MERCER
The Knoedler Galleries had an exhibition re-
cently of the English artists. William Strang, the
etcher, is not at his best in Danae. The feeling
for line and rhythm is there but a constant pecu-
liarity of colour sense or lack of it seems to con-
vict him of a deficiency in colour-perception in
its wider and finer sense. Colour with him seems
to be primal—a question of pigment rather than of
atmospheric sensation and true vision. A matter
either of a primitive outlook on natural facts, or of
optical defect.
Sims alone vies with Orpen in brilliancy of
imagination, desire for experiment and excellent
mastery of media. In every conception by
either there is a sense of vitality and joy which
brings forcibly to evidence, by comparison, the
“fatigue” which one feels often subconsciously
in the work, especially in the medium of oil, of
most of the men who have “found” themselves.
The Siamese studies of Festus Kelly are a dis-
appointing output by a man who has done really
fine things. They are examples of an unfortunate
care in selection shown in the grouping and gath-
ering of this collection. A better judgment and
greater care exercised in London would be to the
benefit of the painters and the New York public.
Steer’s one exhibit is characteristic of a sloven-
liness and a stupid carelessness of opinion which
is his. It is an unworthy thing by a good man,
of whom one would not care to say or to believe
that he desires to live on a past reputation.
Augustus John, one of the most fascinating ad-
venturers of the younger English group, the
group which counts for most in the painting of
to-day, is again “finding.”
At the Reinhardt Galleries, Leon Gaspard, the
Russian artist, has just concluded an exhibition
ci
CORNER OF A GALLERY AT GOUPIL’S SHEWING ETCHINGS AND BRONZES
N THE GALLERIES
One of the finest exhibitions of American
artists, past and present, has been on view
at the Macbeth Galleries where it has been
possible to see some excellent Blakelocks side by
side with rare specimens of Inness, Wyant and
Martin. The Spring Academy and sculpture at
Gorham’s improvised garden have been noticed
in special articles.
THE GOLFER BY GENEVA MERCER
The Knoedler Galleries had an exhibition re-
cently of the English artists. William Strang, the
etcher, is not at his best in Danae. The feeling
for line and rhythm is there but a constant pecu-
liarity of colour sense or lack of it seems to con-
vict him of a deficiency in colour-perception in
its wider and finer sense. Colour with him seems
to be primal—a question of pigment rather than of
atmospheric sensation and true vision. A matter
either of a primitive outlook on natural facts, or of
optical defect.
Sims alone vies with Orpen in brilliancy of
imagination, desire for experiment and excellent
mastery of media. In every conception by
either there is a sense of vitality and joy which
brings forcibly to evidence, by comparison, the
“fatigue” which one feels often subconsciously
in the work, especially in the medium of oil, of
most of the men who have “found” themselves.
The Siamese studies of Festus Kelly are a dis-
appointing output by a man who has done really
fine things. They are examples of an unfortunate
care in selection shown in the grouping and gath-
ering of this collection. A better judgment and
greater care exercised in London would be to the
benefit of the painters and the New York public.
Steer’s one exhibit is characteristic of a sloven-
liness and a stupid carelessness of opinion which
is his. It is an unworthy thing by a good man,
of whom one would not care to say or to believe
that he desires to live on a past reputation.
Augustus John, one of the most fascinating ad-
venturers of the younger English group, the
group which counts for most in the painting of
to-day, is again “finding.”
At the Reinhardt Galleries, Leon Gaspard, the
Russian artist, has just concluded an exhibition
ci