DOI Heft:
Nr. 242 (April, 1917)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The graphic arts at the Royal Academy
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43464#0131
Graphic Arts Exhibition at the Royal Academy
“ GRIEF ” (WOOD-ENGRAVING)
BY JAMES GUTHRIE
A very active period of reproductive wood-
engraving is represented in the Retrospective
Section by a most interesting selection from the
illustrators of the ’sixties, ’seventies, and
’eighties of the last century ; but the interest
of this lies in the magnificent draughtsmanship
and design, given to illustration in book and
periodical, by such artists as Millais, Whistler,
Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Madox Brown, Pinwell,
Boyd Houghton, Frederick Sandys. The illus-
trators of to-day are but scantily represented
in the present exhibition, but in the section
devoted to draughtsmanship are some very live
and expressive things.
There is plenty of variety. Extraordinary
vitality is the essential feature of Miss Elsie
Henderson’s studies of wild animals of the
jungle, vitality controlled by true artistic
instinct. Sincerity of vision, with a sense of
style, marks the pencil drawings of Mr. George
W. Lambert. Six of Lieut. Muirhead Bone’s
impressions of the Western Front show his
masterly command of graphic suggestion. Here
is characteristic portraiture by Mr. Strang,
extremely vivid, Mr. Rothenstein, and Mr.
Harold Speed ; here are sensitive, live drawings
by Mr. John Wheatley, Mr. Derwent Wood’s
interesting revelation of a sculptor’s manner of
draughtsmanship, admirable examples of Mr.
Herbert Draper’s figure studies, Mr. Charles S.
Cheston’s delicate pencil work, Mr. Selwyn
Image’s poetry of vision. Mr. Clausen’s, too,
with a difference, Miss Anna Airy’s versatility
of pictorial interest, and Mr. Frank L.
Emanuel’s expressive use of the pencil in render-
ing the true pictorial aspect of architecture.
The illustrative fancy of Mr. Arthur Rackham
is happily represented, but among the illus-
trators none are so vitally original, perhaps, as
Mr. Thomas Derrick and Mr. Jack B. Yeats.
Limits of space forbid more detailed reference
to the drawings; as also to the significant
exhibit of memorial sketch-models organized
by the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
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“ GRIEF ” (WOOD-ENGRAVING)
BY JAMES GUTHRIE
A very active period of reproductive wood-
engraving is represented in the Retrospective
Section by a most interesting selection from the
illustrators of the ’sixties, ’seventies, and
’eighties of the last century ; but the interest
of this lies in the magnificent draughtsmanship
and design, given to illustration in book and
periodical, by such artists as Millais, Whistler,
Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Madox Brown, Pinwell,
Boyd Houghton, Frederick Sandys. The illus-
trators of to-day are but scantily represented
in the present exhibition, but in the section
devoted to draughtsmanship are some very live
and expressive things.
There is plenty of variety. Extraordinary
vitality is the essential feature of Miss Elsie
Henderson’s studies of wild animals of the
jungle, vitality controlled by true artistic
instinct. Sincerity of vision, with a sense of
style, marks the pencil drawings of Mr. George
W. Lambert. Six of Lieut. Muirhead Bone’s
impressions of the Western Front show his
masterly command of graphic suggestion. Here
is characteristic portraiture by Mr. Strang,
extremely vivid, Mr. Rothenstein, and Mr.
Harold Speed ; here are sensitive, live drawings
by Mr. John Wheatley, Mr. Derwent Wood’s
interesting revelation of a sculptor’s manner of
draughtsmanship, admirable examples of Mr.
Herbert Draper’s figure studies, Mr. Charles S.
Cheston’s delicate pencil work, Mr. Selwyn
Image’s poetry of vision. Mr. Clausen’s, too,
with a difference, Miss Anna Airy’s versatility
of pictorial interest, and Mr. Frank L.
Emanuel’s expressive use of the pencil in render-
ing the true pictorial aspect of architecture.
The illustrative fancy of Mr. Arthur Rackham
is happily represented, but among the illus-
trators none are so vitally original, perhaps, as
Mr. Thomas Derrick and Mr. Jack B. Yeats.
Limits of space forbid more detailed reference
to the drawings; as also to the significant
exhibit of memorial sketch-models organized
by the Royal Society of British Sculptors.
75