DOI issue:
No. 59 (February, 1898)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0064
Studio- Talk
le grand marche aux chiens " from a painting by joseph stevens
other three sides are a
series of panels seven feet
high, and on these Spring,
Summer, and Autumn
are depicted, a wall being
given to each season. The
upper part of the panels
is filled with the flat tones
of a warm grey sky and
distant rolling moorland,
the lines of which are
carried right round the
room. Then, blues of the
distance pass gradually,
with very slight change of
the tones, into the green
and warm colours of fore-
ground vegetation, so that
a large part of the space
is occupied by colours
intermediate between blue
and green: against this
bright autumnal leaves,
and then pinkish whites
of birch stems, hawthorn blossom, and other flowers The Sheep Drove. Another magnificent stained-
are strongly relieved. The whole is in a very light glass window, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and
scheme of colour, laid on in flat spaces. Miss Morris and Co., the subject being The Last Judg-
Hill Burton may be heartily congratulated upon ment% has just been added to the fine series by
the complete success of her undertaking. this artist in St. Philip's Church. These windows
alone make a visit to Birmingham a pleasure to all
BIRMINGHAM.—There is very little to art-lovers. __
chronicle in connection with art
matters in Birmingham, except some Mr. F. W. Sturge, a member of a well-known
important additions to the perma- Birmingham family, has been holding a " one-man
nent collections of the Corporation show " here for some weeks, consisting of water-
Art Gallery. Among these may be singled out colour drawings of coast scenery, chiefly taken
Mr. Onslow Ford's remarkable statue of the late from the rugged shores of Cornwall and Devon.
Dr. Dale, which is undoubtedly one of the finest Mr. Sturge studies Nature with remarkable fidelity,
works of art now in the possession of the city, and his work is noticeable for its purity of colour,
Since its unveiling it has called forth almost the delicate transparency of its atmospheres, and
universal admiration. Another valuable gift, from for its close acquaintanceship with the many moods
Mr. Charles Harding, is a large painting by Mons. of the ever changing sea.
Bouguereau, called Charity^ an excellent example
of the well-known French painter, and of his best ^—"V RUSSELS.—The album of nine etch-
period, the "subject" of which appeals to the J ings published by M. Omer Coppens
crowrd, while the artistic qualities attract the local I will certainly satisfy those who are
students. Mr. J. J. Shannon's striking portrait of M interested in the career of this sound
Birmingham's first Lord Mayor, Sir James Smith, artist, one of whose lithographs was
has also been added to the gallery of "local reproduced some time ago in The Studio. Several
worthies," and among the more recent acquisitions of these plates represent scenes in Bruges, whose
may be mentioned a good early water-colour of faithful delineator he is, never tiring in his efforts
Turner's—Salisbury Cathedral; an interesting little to paint or draw or engrave its squares, its canals,
Pre-Raphaelite canvas, The Woman of Samaria, by its solemn, silent quays. The bindings by M.
William Dyce;and a good John Linnell, called Coppens exhibited in the Applied Arts department
49
le grand marche aux chiens " from a painting by joseph stevens
other three sides are a
series of panels seven feet
high, and on these Spring,
Summer, and Autumn
are depicted, a wall being
given to each season. The
upper part of the panels
is filled with the flat tones
of a warm grey sky and
distant rolling moorland,
the lines of which are
carried right round the
room. Then, blues of the
distance pass gradually,
with very slight change of
the tones, into the green
and warm colours of fore-
ground vegetation, so that
a large part of the space
is occupied by colours
intermediate between blue
and green: against this
bright autumnal leaves,
and then pinkish whites
of birch stems, hawthorn blossom, and other flowers The Sheep Drove. Another magnificent stained-
are strongly relieved. The whole is in a very light glass window, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and
scheme of colour, laid on in flat spaces. Miss Morris and Co., the subject being The Last Judg-
Hill Burton may be heartily congratulated upon ment% has just been added to the fine series by
the complete success of her undertaking. this artist in St. Philip's Church. These windows
alone make a visit to Birmingham a pleasure to all
BIRMINGHAM.—There is very little to art-lovers. __
chronicle in connection with art
matters in Birmingham, except some Mr. F. W. Sturge, a member of a well-known
important additions to the perma- Birmingham family, has been holding a " one-man
nent collections of the Corporation show " here for some weeks, consisting of water-
Art Gallery. Among these may be singled out colour drawings of coast scenery, chiefly taken
Mr. Onslow Ford's remarkable statue of the late from the rugged shores of Cornwall and Devon.
Dr. Dale, which is undoubtedly one of the finest Mr. Sturge studies Nature with remarkable fidelity,
works of art now in the possession of the city, and his work is noticeable for its purity of colour,
Since its unveiling it has called forth almost the delicate transparency of its atmospheres, and
universal admiration. Another valuable gift, from for its close acquaintanceship with the many moods
Mr. Charles Harding, is a large painting by Mons. of the ever changing sea.
Bouguereau, called Charity^ an excellent example
of the well-known French painter, and of his best ^—"V RUSSELS.—The album of nine etch-
period, the "subject" of which appeals to the J ings published by M. Omer Coppens
crowrd, while the artistic qualities attract the local I will certainly satisfy those who are
students. Mr. J. J. Shannon's striking portrait of M interested in the career of this sound
Birmingham's first Lord Mayor, Sir James Smith, artist, one of whose lithographs was
has also been added to the gallery of "local reproduced some time ago in The Studio. Several
worthies," and among the more recent acquisitions of these plates represent scenes in Bruges, whose
may be mentioned a good early water-colour of faithful delineator he is, never tiring in his efforts
Turner's—Salisbury Cathedral; an interesting little to paint or draw or engrave its squares, its canals,
Pre-Raphaelite canvas, The Woman of Samaria, by its solemn, silent quays. The bindings by M.
William Dyce;and a good John Linnell, called Coppens exhibited in the Applied Arts department
49