DOI Heft:
No. 18 (September, 1894)
DOI Artikel:Martin, David: Some paintings by Joseph Crawhall, Jun.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17190#0187
Some Paintings by Joseph Crawhall
collaboration with Mr. James Guthrie, a brother what to utilise in the matter of detail. His pic-
artist with whose work he has much in common, tures are entirely free from the trivial and useless,
he illustrated delightfully a second edition of his showing no complications of uncertainty and lack-
father's The Compkatest Angling Booke. About ing nothing of that spontaneity which is the great
the same time he accompanied Mr. E. A. Walton charm of water-colour work.
and a number of the younger Glasgow painters, In The Aviary these qualities are pronounced,
who by-and-by were to " make art history " through not unduly, but with a reserve in artistic sympathy
the new movement in Glasgow, to a little village in with the rich colour scheme of the subject. The
the Scottish highlands called Brig o' Turk. Here jury at the Munich International Exhibition a few
he did many studies in oils and black and white of years back awarded this picture a gold medal,
horses and animals. There can be little doubt but The Barb Horse in Stable, while also embodying
that he influenced his fellow-workers in an unmis- admirable technical qualities, is, however, more
"A BULL FIGHT BY JOSEPH CRAWHALL
takable manner in their serious searching after noteworthy on account of the delightful subtlety of
truth. Later he painted with Mr. Guthrie in colour, so refined and beautiful, its clearness of
Crowland, where he also continued his studies of tone values, and its repose unbroken by any dis-
animal life. Still later, with the same earnest turbing element. Among recent work, perhaps the
desire to further his technique, he went to Paris, finest is the series of drawings which depict the
and joined the studio of Mons. Aime Morot; incidents of the Spanish Bull-ring, where Mr.
but learning little from the regime of the atelier Crawhall found much to inspire and fascinate. In
where the aims of the artistic teaching were entirely these subjects are markedly evident all the artist's
out of harmony with his own ideas. He preferred to wonderful power of concentration, vitality in record-
study outside, in the Parisian boulevards, in the ing, and susceptibility to impressions of animal life,
parks, and in the country where more congenial To enumerate even the more prominent of the
matter was to be found. pictures which the Societe des Beaux Arts hung in
In the reproductions which accompany this the recent exhibition, would be of little moment at
article many of the typical points in the painter's this period of Mr. Crawhall's life, so we have con-
brush-work may be noted : the charm of his design fined our article to a brief indication of the parti-
and composition, and the distinct evidence of that cular quality of his work, which assures his position
most excellent artistic quality, knowing exactly as one of our most distinguished painters.
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collaboration with Mr. James Guthrie, a brother what to utilise in the matter of detail. His pic-
artist with whose work he has much in common, tures are entirely free from the trivial and useless,
he illustrated delightfully a second edition of his showing no complications of uncertainty and lack-
father's The Compkatest Angling Booke. About ing nothing of that spontaneity which is the great
the same time he accompanied Mr. E. A. Walton charm of water-colour work.
and a number of the younger Glasgow painters, In The Aviary these qualities are pronounced,
who by-and-by were to " make art history " through not unduly, but with a reserve in artistic sympathy
the new movement in Glasgow, to a little village in with the rich colour scheme of the subject. The
the Scottish highlands called Brig o' Turk. Here jury at the Munich International Exhibition a few
he did many studies in oils and black and white of years back awarded this picture a gold medal,
horses and animals. There can be little doubt but The Barb Horse in Stable, while also embodying
that he influenced his fellow-workers in an unmis- admirable technical qualities, is, however, more
"A BULL FIGHT BY JOSEPH CRAWHALL
takable manner in their serious searching after noteworthy on account of the delightful subtlety of
truth. Later he painted with Mr. Guthrie in colour, so refined and beautiful, its clearness of
Crowland, where he also continued his studies of tone values, and its repose unbroken by any dis-
animal life. Still later, with the same earnest turbing element. Among recent work, perhaps the
desire to further his technique, he went to Paris, finest is the series of drawings which depict the
and joined the studio of Mons. Aime Morot; incidents of the Spanish Bull-ring, where Mr.
but learning little from the regime of the atelier Crawhall found much to inspire and fascinate. In
where the aims of the artistic teaching were entirely these subjects are markedly evident all the artist's
out of harmony with his own ideas. He preferred to wonderful power of concentration, vitality in record-
study outside, in the Parisian boulevards, in the ing, and susceptibility to impressions of animal life,
parks, and in the country where more congenial To enumerate even the more prominent of the
matter was to be found. pictures which the Societe des Beaux Arts hung in
In the reproductions which accompany this the recent exhibition, would be of little moment at
article many of the typical points in the painter's this period of Mr. Crawhall's life, so we have con-
brush-work may be noted : the charm of his design fined our article to a brief indication of the parti-
and composition, and the distinct evidence of that cular quality of his work, which assures his position
most excellent artistic quality, knowing exactly as one of our most distinguished painters.
169