DOI Heft:
No. 36 (March, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0127
Studio- Talk
"THE WHITE HOUSE ON THE HILL" FROM A TAINTING BY GKOSVENOR THOMAS
too much of a local character about the collection, sented by a powerful canvas entitled Children
which has never before been so prominent. Playing at Eventide.
The old sytem of high hanging is still continued Among the ordinary exhibits there are many
at the Institute, but in this respect it is not quite interesting and valuable works, but none, except
so bad as in former years, while a new feature is some of the portraits, touch a very high standard
that one of the galleries is devoted to portraits, of excellence as regards a distinct personality, and
and in order to help the decorative effect a it is regrettable that when one comes across a dis-
number of flower and figure subjects have been tinctive canvas it does not look its best owing to
placed between. The exhibits number 880, and its juxtaposition to unsympathetic work. Taken
they embrace work in oil, water colours, and altogether, it is very evident that the local exhibitors
sculpture. Architectural drawings, with a few show up better by good honest painter-like work
black and whites, occupy one of the rooms. than the others, and briefly, the following may be
said to embrace the work that confirms this state-
As usual at the Institute exhibitions, the loan ment: —Drift Nets, by Wellwood Rattray ; Flora,
pictures make a special feature, and in the present by Alexander Roche ; The White House on the
show there are many masterpieces by living and Hill, a low-toned landscape by Grosvenor Thomas ;
deceased painters of various schools and nationality, and Nell, by George Henry, A.R.S.A., a vigorous
The largest and at the same time finest picture not study of a woman's head against a dark green
only of the loan section, but also in the whole exhi- background. The two latter we are enabled by
bition, is Whistler's La Princesse de Ponelaine, the kind permission of the artists to here repro-
which bears the date of 1867. Other notable loan duce. Other works in this category are Stuart
pictures are by Corot, M. Maris, Mullet, Isabey, Park's brilliant little canvas, A Gipsy Maid (repro-
Israels, and Muhrmann, the latter being repre- duced in the December number of The Studio) ;
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"THE WHITE HOUSE ON THE HILL" FROM A TAINTING BY GKOSVENOR THOMAS
too much of a local character about the collection, sented by a powerful canvas entitled Children
which has never before been so prominent. Playing at Eventide.
The old sytem of high hanging is still continued Among the ordinary exhibits there are many
at the Institute, but in this respect it is not quite interesting and valuable works, but none, except
so bad as in former years, while a new feature is some of the portraits, touch a very high standard
that one of the galleries is devoted to portraits, of excellence as regards a distinct personality, and
and in order to help the decorative effect a it is regrettable that when one comes across a dis-
number of flower and figure subjects have been tinctive canvas it does not look its best owing to
placed between. The exhibits number 880, and its juxtaposition to unsympathetic work. Taken
they embrace work in oil, water colours, and altogether, it is very evident that the local exhibitors
sculpture. Architectural drawings, with a few show up better by good honest painter-like work
black and whites, occupy one of the rooms. than the others, and briefly, the following may be
said to embrace the work that confirms this state-
As usual at the Institute exhibitions, the loan ment: —Drift Nets, by Wellwood Rattray ; Flora,
pictures make a special feature, and in the present by Alexander Roche ; The White House on the
show there are many masterpieces by living and Hill, a low-toned landscape by Grosvenor Thomas ;
deceased painters of various schools and nationality, and Nell, by George Henry, A.R.S.A., a vigorous
The largest and at the same time finest picture not study of a woman's head against a dark green
only of the loan section, but also in the whole exhi- background. The two latter we are enabled by
bition, is Whistler's La Princesse de Ponelaine, the kind permission of the artists to here repro-
which bears the date of 1867. Other notable loan duce. Other works in this category are Stuart
pictures are by Corot, M. Maris, Mullet, Isabey, Park's brilliant little canvas, A Gipsy Maid (repro-
Israels, and Muhrmann, the latter being repre- duced in the December number of The Studio) ;
114