DOI issue:
Nr. 234 (August, 1916)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43462#0235
Studio-Talk
“ baltilee farm, ceres” (Royal Scottish Academy) BY MASON HUNTER, A.R.S.A.
always evident in the prosaic light of common
day. Mr. Campbell Mitchell is also among the
sweet songsters of the night with a landscape of
veiled beauty. His North Gyle, serene yet pensive,
is touched with the first wreaths of the coming
winter snows. _
Mr. Lawton Wingate, in addition to his land-
scapes, shows a group of white Japanese anemones
in growth, and Mr. William Walls, also stepping
aside from his accustomed path, exhibits, in addi-
tion to an altogether delightful study of a lion’s
cub at play, a moonlight scene on Dornoch Firth,
a romantically conceived treatment of landscape.
Notable also are Mr. A. K. Brown’s tenderly
limned Highland winter evening scene, Mr. Robert
Home’s aerially expressive view of North Edin-
burgh with the Fife hills on the horizon, Mr.
Robert Noble’s Border Keep rich in colour, Mr.
John Menzies’ On the Banks of the Tyne, juicy
and translucent in its green foliage, Mr. Charles
H. Mackie’s brilliant Conway landscape and still
more rhythmic shore scene, and Mr. W. M.
Frazer’s tenderly phrased Flood in the Fens.
Mr. Mason Hunter, continuing his studies at
Ceres, gives three versions of landscapes in that
locality, all marked by finer composition and
greater cohesion than his previous work. The
best of these, Baltilee Farm, Ceres, is beautifully
co-ordinated both in colour and composition.
Mr. James Paterson’s Morning in the Coolins,
with its tremendous precipices and riven rocks, is
a powerful presentation of elemental force. Mr.
Archibald Kay, one of the new Associates, justifies
his election by an attractive view of the picturesque
river Leny, and Mr. Henderson Tarbet realises an
autumn Highland scene when October paints the
foliage red and russet. Mr. James Cadenhead
has exhibited nothing finer than his moorland
scene, quiet, remote, almost sad. In Mr. J. H.
Lorimer’s September the ordered profusion of
wealth in a flower - lover’s garden is happily
realised. Skilful as ever in his interiors Mr. P. W.
Adam presents as few painters could do the
dignity and repose of the Edinburgh Signet
Library. _
The water-colour room, though containing many
excellent drawings, is really dominated by the ten
exhibits sent by Mrs. Laura Knight, already referred
to. Of the other pictures the most notable are
Mr. Duddingstone Herdman’s small but tenderly
expressive moonlight scene, Mr. R. B. Nisbet's
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“ baltilee farm, ceres” (Royal Scottish Academy) BY MASON HUNTER, A.R.S.A.
always evident in the prosaic light of common
day. Mr. Campbell Mitchell is also among the
sweet songsters of the night with a landscape of
veiled beauty. His North Gyle, serene yet pensive,
is touched with the first wreaths of the coming
winter snows. _
Mr. Lawton Wingate, in addition to his land-
scapes, shows a group of white Japanese anemones
in growth, and Mr. William Walls, also stepping
aside from his accustomed path, exhibits, in addi-
tion to an altogether delightful study of a lion’s
cub at play, a moonlight scene on Dornoch Firth,
a romantically conceived treatment of landscape.
Notable also are Mr. A. K. Brown’s tenderly
limned Highland winter evening scene, Mr. Robert
Home’s aerially expressive view of North Edin-
burgh with the Fife hills on the horizon, Mr.
Robert Noble’s Border Keep rich in colour, Mr.
John Menzies’ On the Banks of the Tyne, juicy
and translucent in its green foliage, Mr. Charles
H. Mackie’s brilliant Conway landscape and still
more rhythmic shore scene, and Mr. W. M.
Frazer’s tenderly phrased Flood in the Fens.
Mr. Mason Hunter, continuing his studies at
Ceres, gives three versions of landscapes in that
locality, all marked by finer composition and
greater cohesion than his previous work. The
best of these, Baltilee Farm, Ceres, is beautifully
co-ordinated both in colour and composition.
Mr. James Paterson’s Morning in the Coolins,
with its tremendous precipices and riven rocks, is
a powerful presentation of elemental force. Mr.
Archibald Kay, one of the new Associates, justifies
his election by an attractive view of the picturesque
river Leny, and Mr. Henderson Tarbet realises an
autumn Highland scene when October paints the
foliage red and russet. Mr. James Cadenhead
has exhibited nothing finer than his moorland
scene, quiet, remote, almost sad. In Mr. J. H.
Lorimer’s September the ordered profusion of
wealth in a flower - lover’s garden is happily
realised. Skilful as ever in his interiors Mr. P. W.
Adam presents as few painters could do the
dignity and repose of the Edinburgh Signet
Library. _
The water-colour room, though containing many
excellent drawings, is really dominated by the ten
exhibits sent by Mrs. Laura Knight, already referred
to. Of the other pictures the most notable are
Mr. Duddingstone Herdman’s small but tenderly
expressive moonlight scene, Mr. R. B. Nisbet's
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