DOI issue:
No. 49 (April, 1897)
DOI issue:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0201
Studio- Talk
from a painting by grosvbnor thomas
by seeing and studying some passing effect over a
landscape. His material is of the simplest selec-
tion. It may be a group of trees against an evening
sky, some old building by a river side, or a stretch
of fields with hedgerows, and yet he shows to us
how beautiful and picturesque these are for pic-
torial treatment.
In his earlier art studies Thomas came much in
touch with the art of Japan, but though this may
have had some influence in his pictures at first it is,
judging from what he is doing to-day, more the in-
fluence and knowledge of the work of the French
Romanticists of 1830 that one may liken his work
to, and yet there is an undoubted personality in all
he does, for in the two great essentials of a fine
work of art, colour and expression, he sees nature
through his own spectacles.
Mr. Thomas, like all who are in love with their
work, is constantly painting at and experimenting
with his pictures, never, however, letting quantity
supersede quality, so that the number of finished
canvases which he has done is comparatively small,
while it is only within the last half-dozen years that
he has exhibited anything that was striking, most of
his work before then being of a more or less tenta-
tive character. In 1890 he completed Dawn, a
very beautiful landscape, which was exhibited at
the Munich Exhibition, and purchased there for
the collection of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. Fol-
lowing this success he next exhibited an exceed-
ingly fine picture entitled Old Mill on tlie Litggie,
which, when seen at Munich and elsewhere, was
greatly admired. It was a very typical work of the
artist's style, and it impressed one by the simplicity
of subject out of which he had made a picture ex-
cellent in tonal and colour qualities as well as
interesting in the general feeling conveyed. Even-
ing, which is reproduced here, was the title of
another notable picture which Mr. Thomas painted
about the time of the last mentioned, and exhibited
first at the Royal Academy and subsequently
in several Continental picture galleries. Canal
T93
from a painting by grosvbnor thomas
by seeing and studying some passing effect over a
landscape. His material is of the simplest selec-
tion. It may be a group of trees against an evening
sky, some old building by a river side, or a stretch
of fields with hedgerows, and yet he shows to us
how beautiful and picturesque these are for pic-
torial treatment.
In his earlier art studies Thomas came much in
touch with the art of Japan, but though this may
have had some influence in his pictures at first it is,
judging from what he is doing to-day, more the in-
fluence and knowledge of the work of the French
Romanticists of 1830 that one may liken his work
to, and yet there is an undoubted personality in all
he does, for in the two great essentials of a fine
work of art, colour and expression, he sees nature
through his own spectacles.
Mr. Thomas, like all who are in love with their
work, is constantly painting at and experimenting
with his pictures, never, however, letting quantity
supersede quality, so that the number of finished
canvases which he has done is comparatively small,
while it is only within the last half-dozen years that
he has exhibited anything that was striking, most of
his work before then being of a more or less tenta-
tive character. In 1890 he completed Dawn, a
very beautiful landscape, which was exhibited at
the Munich Exhibition, and purchased there for
the collection of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. Fol-
lowing this success he next exhibited an exceed-
ingly fine picture entitled Old Mill on tlie Litggie,
which, when seen at Munich and elsewhere, was
greatly admired. It was a very typical work of the
artist's style, and it impressed one by the simplicity
of subject out of which he had made a picture ex-
cellent in tonal and colour qualities as well as
interesting in the general feeling conveyed. Even-
ing, which is reproduced here, was the title of
another notable picture which Mr. Thomas painted
about the time of the last mentioned, and exhibited
first at the Royal Academy and subsequently
in several Continental picture galleries. Canal
T93