DOI Heft:
No. 27 (June 1895)
DOI Artikel:Grier, Louis: A painters' club
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0130
A Painters Club
the lanterns'reflections, and right in the foreground levels, and with quaint Dutch-like roof with here
the wet scintillating sand, and the groups of hurry- and there a skylight, and here and there a swinging
ing fisher-folk, made a scene of great beauty; while window.
the occasional treble of a woman's voice calling her Once more we are in view of the glorious bay
bread-winner in the darkness harmonised well with and in sound of the cry of the hovering gull, and
the deep bass of the men as they rang out their under our feet comes the roar of the ground-sea as
"Once more" and "Again," in hauling their gigs it struggles with the rocks at the base and rushes
above the lap-lap of the waves. madly up the granite walls of our foundation. It is
The general Spring dispersion, Paris and town- a very marine spot indeed, and at one time when
wards, closed the club for the season, and we we were going through a period of stiffish weather,
looked forward to a re-assembling in the following I announced the interesting fact to my landlady at
autumn. When autumn came, however, I very breakfast that while dressing I had seen a consider-
reluctantly refused my studio for the purpose as I able portion of the Arts Club washing round the
was preparing a masterpiece, and was afraid of island head on an excursion up the English
interruption. Being unable to procure a suitable Channel. My eyesight had not failed me on that
habitation, we allowed the thing to fall through occasion, and a little later on we had a string of
and spent a winter clubless. painters, clad in sea-b^ots, sou'-westers and oil-
Early in the following autumn however, thanks skins, handing the club furniture through the town
largely to the energy of Mr. H. Harewood Robin- to a neighbouring studio for greater safety, as we
son, a temporary abode was found, and the club found the sea had removed a corner of the roof
was renewed with a membership of about eighty, and carried away about a quarter of the foundation,
and very soon afterwards we were fortunate enough so there was every chance of the whole structure
to find a capital room admirably suited to our coming down by the run. Carting about odds and
purpose—a room with curious windows turning up ends of furniture is good enough in decent weather,
in the most unexpected places, all on different but dodging green seas, as they come sweeping up
SOME MEMBERS FROM A FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH BY J. C. DOUGLAS
) III
the lanterns'reflections, and right in the foreground levels, and with quaint Dutch-like roof with here
the wet scintillating sand, and the groups of hurry- and there a skylight, and here and there a swinging
ing fisher-folk, made a scene of great beauty; while window.
the occasional treble of a woman's voice calling her Once more we are in view of the glorious bay
bread-winner in the darkness harmonised well with and in sound of the cry of the hovering gull, and
the deep bass of the men as they rang out their under our feet comes the roar of the ground-sea as
"Once more" and "Again," in hauling their gigs it struggles with the rocks at the base and rushes
above the lap-lap of the waves. madly up the granite walls of our foundation. It is
The general Spring dispersion, Paris and town- a very marine spot indeed, and at one time when
wards, closed the club for the season, and we we were going through a period of stiffish weather,
looked forward to a re-assembling in the following I announced the interesting fact to my landlady at
autumn. When autumn came, however, I very breakfast that while dressing I had seen a consider-
reluctantly refused my studio for the purpose as I able portion of the Arts Club washing round the
was preparing a masterpiece, and was afraid of island head on an excursion up the English
interruption. Being unable to procure a suitable Channel. My eyesight had not failed me on that
habitation, we allowed the thing to fall through occasion, and a little later on we had a string of
and spent a winter clubless. painters, clad in sea-b^ots, sou'-westers and oil-
Early in the following autumn however, thanks skins, handing the club furniture through the town
largely to the energy of Mr. H. Harewood Robin- to a neighbouring studio for greater safety, as we
son, a temporary abode was found, and the club found the sea had removed a corner of the roof
was renewed with a membership of about eighty, and carried away about a quarter of the foundation,
and very soon afterwards we were fortunate enough so there was every chance of the whole structure
to find a capital room admirably suited to our coming down by the run. Carting about odds and
purpose—a room with curious windows turning up ends of furniture is good enough in decent weather,
in the most unexpected places, all on different but dodging green seas, as they come sweeping up
SOME MEMBERS FROM A FLASHLIGHT PHOTOGRAPH BY J. C. DOUGLAS
) III