DOI Heft:
No. 32 (November, 1895)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0134
Studio- Talk
been seen at various Continental exhibitions and
has received appreciation for its artistic character.
The Corporation of Glasgow has acquired for
the City's permanent collection the large sea-piece
entitled Good Night to Skye, by Mr. Colin Hunter,
A.R.A. The picture was exhibited, it will be re-
membered, in the Royal Academy last summer.
This work, along with the Carlyle of Whistler,
John Lavery's Glasgow Exhibition of 1888, David
Murray's Fir Faggots, and James E. Christie's
Vanity Fair, may be said to form the nucleus of
the modern collection in Glasgow. All have been
acquired within recent years. D. M.
NEWLYN.—If these notes are to re-
present the Studio-Talk of Newlyn,
then most assuredly they must
chatter about the Passmore Edwards
Art Gallery, for in these first days
of its opening nothing else is spoken about,
thought about, or cared about.
Indeed, it is only natural. Think of it; almost at
the extremity of the horn of England is this small
garrison of painters, an outpost of Art, far away
from the large cities, where all the machinery of
exhibitions, dealers, enterprises, and what not, are
continually helping to make people think them-
selves an courant in Art matters.
Suddenly into this primitive environment there
falls from heaven, or rather the Strand, a
granite building, square and massive, to be used
for whatsoever artistic purpose the painters of
Newlyn may see fit. It so chanced that just as
this miracle happened Mr. Howard Butler came
over to St. Ives to cool himself during the summer
heat of New York. Mr. Butler is an artist who
possesses the rare power of organisation; to this
power is due the working of a triplicate combina-
tion in New York : the Society of American
Artists, the League Art Schools, and (I think) an
Architectural Society. Anyhow, Mr. Butler drew
them together and built for them a sumptuous
home, and, moreover, he formed a scheme for the
financing of this home, all of which will be, no
doubt, written for The Studio by the American
correspondent. _
and the result was that the people of Penzance,
and, indeed, all Cornwall, were invited to become
fellows or donors, gaining in return certain privi-
leges in regard to the Passmore Edwards Art
Gallery—one could have wished the title somewhat
less unwieldy.
A collection of some hundred and fifty pictures
was then got together, Cornish in its complexion,
even Sir Frederic Leighton sending some panels
painted at Kynance.
This is not the place for a criticism, nor can I
even enumerate; to mention a few names would
be invidious where the company is so good. I may
say, however, that Frank Bramley's large picture,
Fifty Years Ago, was the piece de resistance.
Then came the opening ceremony fitly performed
by that distinguished son of Penzance, the ency-
clopaedic Mr. Leonard Courtenay : Lord St. Levan
came down from his citadel, Mount St. Michael,
and added the lustre of his title to the event; Mr.
Bedford Bolitho, M.P., lent his ever kindly pre-
sence, and Mr. Quiller Couch, " Q," represented
literature. _
Both at the opening and at the luncheon that
followed the speeches were weighty and witty,
while an evening conversazione in the Gallery
brought a day to a close which will not be soon
wiped out from the memory of Newlyners.
N. G.
DRESDEN.—Sasha Schneider has just
exhibited a new set of cartoons,
which are not perhaps quite equal to
the works that created such a sensation
last year, and which were exhibited
throughout Germany. Among his former pictures
some were very powerful: as, for instance, Judas
treading on the red hot coins, thorns wrapped all
about him, staring at the vision of the phantom
cross at his feet; the Second Meeting (of Christ
and Judas), and the anarchist, carrying a bomb up
to the stone figure of an Assyrian king—the symbol
of capital. The thinker had just got a little the
better of the artist in these things ; still, they were
interesting, and the large crayon cartoons seemed
a very promising beginning for so young an artist.
Suffice it now to say that Mr. Butler aided the
Newlyn Committee very much by his suggestions,
It appeared to me they were all "intellect"
work, and I spoke to Schneider on the subject.
been seen at various Continental exhibitions and
has received appreciation for its artistic character.
The Corporation of Glasgow has acquired for
the City's permanent collection the large sea-piece
entitled Good Night to Skye, by Mr. Colin Hunter,
A.R.A. The picture was exhibited, it will be re-
membered, in the Royal Academy last summer.
This work, along with the Carlyle of Whistler,
John Lavery's Glasgow Exhibition of 1888, David
Murray's Fir Faggots, and James E. Christie's
Vanity Fair, may be said to form the nucleus of
the modern collection in Glasgow. All have been
acquired within recent years. D. M.
NEWLYN.—If these notes are to re-
present the Studio-Talk of Newlyn,
then most assuredly they must
chatter about the Passmore Edwards
Art Gallery, for in these first days
of its opening nothing else is spoken about,
thought about, or cared about.
Indeed, it is only natural. Think of it; almost at
the extremity of the horn of England is this small
garrison of painters, an outpost of Art, far away
from the large cities, where all the machinery of
exhibitions, dealers, enterprises, and what not, are
continually helping to make people think them-
selves an courant in Art matters.
Suddenly into this primitive environment there
falls from heaven, or rather the Strand, a
granite building, square and massive, to be used
for whatsoever artistic purpose the painters of
Newlyn may see fit. It so chanced that just as
this miracle happened Mr. Howard Butler came
over to St. Ives to cool himself during the summer
heat of New York. Mr. Butler is an artist who
possesses the rare power of organisation; to this
power is due the working of a triplicate combina-
tion in New York : the Society of American
Artists, the League Art Schools, and (I think) an
Architectural Society. Anyhow, Mr. Butler drew
them together and built for them a sumptuous
home, and, moreover, he formed a scheme for the
financing of this home, all of which will be, no
doubt, written for The Studio by the American
correspondent. _
and the result was that the people of Penzance,
and, indeed, all Cornwall, were invited to become
fellows or donors, gaining in return certain privi-
leges in regard to the Passmore Edwards Art
Gallery—one could have wished the title somewhat
less unwieldy.
A collection of some hundred and fifty pictures
was then got together, Cornish in its complexion,
even Sir Frederic Leighton sending some panels
painted at Kynance.
This is not the place for a criticism, nor can I
even enumerate; to mention a few names would
be invidious where the company is so good. I may
say, however, that Frank Bramley's large picture,
Fifty Years Ago, was the piece de resistance.
Then came the opening ceremony fitly performed
by that distinguished son of Penzance, the ency-
clopaedic Mr. Leonard Courtenay : Lord St. Levan
came down from his citadel, Mount St. Michael,
and added the lustre of his title to the event; Mr.
Bedford Bolitho, M.P., lent his ever kindly pre-
sence, and Mr. Quiller Couch, " Q," represented
literature. _
Both at the opening and at the luncheon that
followed the speeches were weighty and witty,
while an evening conversazione in the Gallery
brought a day to a close which will not be soon
wiped out from the memory of Newlyners.
N. G.
DRESDEN.—Sasha Schneider has just
exhibited a new set of cartoons,
which are not perhaps quite equal to
the works that created such a sensation
last year, and which were exhibited
throughout Germany. Among his former pictures
some were very powerful: as, for instance, Judas
treading on the red hot coins, thorns wrapped all
about him, staring at the vision of the phantom
cross at his feet; the Second Meeting (of Christ
and Judas), and the anarchist, carrying a bomb up
to the stone figure of an Assyrian king—the symbol
of capital. The thinker had just got a little the
better of the artist in these things ; still, they were
interesting, and the large crayon cartoons seemed
a very promising beginning for so young an artist.
Suffice it now to say that Mr. Butler aided the
Newlyn Committee very much by his suggestions,
It appeared to me they were all "intellect"
work, and I spoke to Schneider on the subject.