DOI Heft:
No. 26 (May, 1895)
DOI Artikel:S., E. B.: Some aspects of the work of Miss Mary L. Newill
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0075
The Work of Miss Mary L. Newill
"porlock bay, somerset " by m. l. newill
employed that it is curious to find that the same ception of tone and value, which is the special joy of
artist, when working in " wash," is able to forget the modern student. Nor is this variety the result
the bold definition of the Diirer school, and to of facile imitation ; examples are not wanting of
depict atmospheric effects with a truly delicate per- clever copyists who can knock you off a Corot in one
hour, and a colourable imitation of Rossetti
in the next, with a Dudley Hardy young
3^J^\^^\ woman and a head-piece in severely archaic
^^^S^\ style thrown in at odd times between.
/ s Miss Newill has the courage of her con-
-_v jc / // y\ ^s^X5^ / >v \ victions, and keeps in each case rigidly
within the limits of the style she elects to
work in. Whether you rank her work as
first-rate or less highly, it is obviously the
^, result of a personal effort to set down what
is before her, not merely in the way of a
dull copyist of the mannerism of others,
but with a vivid sense of the importance
of selection that promises a brilliant
future. And this selection she employs
in strict accordance with the limitation of
her material; for the style of the early
woodcut she reduces forms to simplicity,
and is more occupied with the pattern
than imitation of Nature ; for her " wash "
work, whether in monochrome or colour,
she adopts a totally different plan and
studies the appearance of things as seen,
not an interpretation to fulfil the dual pur-
pose of illustration and decoration ; while
in her embroideries she works in mosaic
of colour entirely.
: The large study of trees, before raen-
gateway, stokesay castle by m. l. newill tioned, is totally unlike Sir Frederic
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"porlock bay, somerset " by m. l. newill
employed that it is curious to find that the same ception of tone and value, which is the special joy of
artist, when working in " wash," is able to forget the modern student. Nor is this variety the result
the bold definition of the Diirer school, and to of facile imitation ; examples are not wanting of
depict atmospheric effects with a truly delicate per- clever copyists who can knock you off a Corot in one
hour, and a colourable imitation of Rossetti
in the next, with a Dudley Hardy young
3^J^\^^\ woman and a head-piece in severely archaic
^^^S^\ style thrown in at odd times between.
/ s Miss Newill has the courage of her con-
-_v jc / // y\ ^s^X5^ / >v \ victions, and keeps in each case rigidly
within the limits of the style she elects to
work in. Whether you rank her work as
first-rate or less highly, it is obviously the
^, result of a personal effort to set down what
is before her, not merely in the way of a
dull copyist of the mannerism of others,
but with a vivid sense of the importance
of selection that promises a brilliant
future. And this selection she employs
in strict accordance with the limitation of
her material; for the style of the early
woodcut she reduces forms to simplicity,
and is more occupied with the pattern
than imitation of Nature ; for her " wash "
work, whether in monochrome or colour,
she adopts a totally different plan and
studies the appearance of things as seen,
not an interpretation to fulfil the dual pur-
pose of illustration and decoration ; while
in her embroideries she works in mosaic
of colour entirely.
: The large study of trees, before raen-
gateway, stokesay castle by m. l. newill tioned, is totally unlike Sir Frederic
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