DOI Heft:
No. 37 (April, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0187
Studio-Talk
a smiling dark girl in a black dress, and holding a
rose pink parasol. Another is a profile study of
the head of a pretty girl with copper-red hair
against a warm purple background. He has,
besides, a couple of pictures of fresh-coloured
country maidens, one standing on a small foot-
bridge, with a background of trees and river banks,
and the other looking from a dipping place into
the placid stream at her feet. He has also com-
pleted recently a charming three-quarter length
panel portrait of Miss Lettice Fairfax, in a pink
dress with a white lace fichu—a pleasantly arranged
little picture that might well be taken as a type for
portraits of cabinet size.
The second poster show at the Royal Aquarium,
if it lacks the retrospective interest of the first
which had all preceding years to draw upon, shows
that the new movement has spread widely and pro-
duced some capital examples. Among the most in-
teresting features are the unpublished designs ; and
of these four by the brothers Beggarstaff deserve
unqualified praise. The one, a Girl with Screen,
is admirably simple, the silhouette restrained to its
most direct expression, at once complete and
masterly; Don Quixote, A Man and Map, and A
Coachman are all worthy of the very clever de-
signers ; four by B. Young, in obvious disciplesbip
of Messrs. Pryde and Nicholson, include a delight-
ful Carpets and Cycles; another design founded
on these artists by V. W. Burkau, is for A Smoking
Concert; a Food poster, by A. A. M'Evoy; a
delightful Dancing Girl, by J. Bernard Partridge;
a clever Conductor of Music and Artistic Magazine,
by Hyland Ellis, whose Mrs. Ponderlniry is now on
every hoarding; some of the very clever Glasgow
work of C. R. Mackintosh, Macdonald and Mc-
Naik, George Walton's Dresses, and F. D. Wood's
Children's Books are each in their own way distinctly
admirable.
Of posters already published Lautrec, the in-
comparable, is represented by six examples; Che"ret
by seventeen, Ibels by two, Steinlen and Forain
by one each, and De Feure by five, which show
great advance upon his early work. America is
largely drawn upon—Louis J. Rhead, in fourteen
of varying merit, shows considerable power in
scheming attractive harmonies of colour, and de-
veloping a purely decorative style. Will H.
Bradley, with his Beardsley-like grotesques, Car-
queville and Penfield are all to the fore. Artists of
established reputation like Howard Pyle and E. A.
a smiling dark girl in a black dress, and holding a
rose pink parasol. Another is a profile study of
the head of a pretty girl with copper-red hair
against a warm purple background. He has,
besides, a couple of pictures of fresh-coloured
country maidens, one standing on a small foot-
bridge, with a background of trees and river banks,
and the other looking from a dipping place into
the placid stream at her feet. He has also com-
pleted recently a charming three-quarter length
panel portrait of Miss Lettice Fairfax, in a pink
dress with a white lace fichu—a pleasantly arranged
little picture that might well be taken as a type for
portraits of cabinet size.
The second poster show at the Royal Aquarium,
if it lacks the retrospective interest of the first
which had all preceding years to draw upon, shows
that the new movement has spread widely and pro-
duced some capital examples. Among the most in-
teresting features are the unpublished designs ; and
of these four by the brothers Beggarstaff deserve
unqualified praise. The one, a Girl with Screen,
is admirably simple, the silhouette restrained to its
most direct expression, at once complete and
masterly; Don Quixote, A Man and Map, and A
Coachman are all worthy of the very clever de-
signers ; four by B. Young, in obvious disciplesbip
of Messrs. Pryde and Nicholson, include a delight-
ful Carpets and Cycles; another design founded
on these artists by V. W. Burkau, is for A Smoking
Concert; a Food poster, by A. A. M'Evoy; a
delightful Dancing Girl, by J. Bernard Partridge;
a clever Conductor of Music and Artistic Magazine,
by Hyland Ellis, whose Mrs. Ponderlniry is now on
every hoarding; some of the very clever Glasgow
work of C. R. Mackintosh, Macdonald and Mc-
Naik, George Walton's Dresses, and F. D. Wood's
Children's Books are each in their own way distinctly
admirable.
Of posters already published Lautrec, the in-
comparable, is represented by six examples; Che"ret
by seventeen, Ibels by two, Steinlen and Forain
by one each, and De Feure by five, which show
great advance upon his early work. America is
largely drawn upon—Louis J. Rhead, in fourteen
of varying merit, shows considerable power in
scheming attractive harmonies of colour, and de-
veloping a purely decorative style. Will H.
Bradley, with his Beardsley-like grotesques, Car-
queville and Penfield are all to the fore. Artists of
established reputation like Howard Pyle and E. A.