DOI Heft:
No. 62 (May, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0295
Studio- Talk
ing the initials E. A., with very light green gesso school is, like all others, made up of men of
decoration on a gold ground, designed especially moderate capacity and good intentions, with some
for a portrait of the little daughter of Mrs. half-dozen leaders who stand head and shoulders
Andrews, by whose kind permission it is here above their fellows. To have anticipated that the
illustrated. exhibition would have presented a congeries of
- masterpieces was to expect the impossible ; we
Some details of decoration of a room designed have really every reason to be both surprised and
and modelled by Mr. James R. Cooper, for Mr. J.G. pleased at the considerable amount of good work
Gibbons Sankey, a London architect, are illustrated which it actually contains. Such a landscape as
on page 266. The fragment, which fills each angle Mr. Arthur Streeton's Purple Noorfs Transparent
of the ceiling and repeats four times to form the Light, with its admirable drawing and aerial per-
centre ornament, shows pleasant, simple lines of spective, and its splendid force of colour, would
foliage, suggested probably by Indian maize. The hold its own in any London gallery ; and such a
whole ceiling is thus enriched with comparatively vigorous piece of action as The Golden Fleece, by
little ornament, but that little being good the whole Mr. Tom Roberts, with its groups of busy shearers,
effect is admirable. The figure is one of two sup- is worthy of the sincere approval of every one who
porting each end of a panelled beam above the holds that the best occupation for the artist is to be
large bay window. The subject, a wood-nymph found in the illustration of modern life. The one
(about 2 feet 4 inches high), is finished in colour. peculiarity of the show is the manner in which
- landscapes predominate. Only a few noteworthy
So much has been said during the past winter figure pictures appear, and the most important of
about the artistic possibilities of the exhibition of these are the contributions of three men—Mr.
Australian art at the Grafton Gallery that the show Longstaff, Mr. E. P. Fox, and Mr. J. R. Ashton—
itself may have come to many people somewhat as who are fortunately painters of exceptional capacity,
a disappointment. Yet it has revealed what every Decorative figure subjects seem to come hardly
one who had studied the progress of the art move- within the scope of the Australian school, for with
ment in Australia knew already, that the native the exception of Mr. S. Long's fanciful Spirit of the
THE GOLDEN FLEECE " BY I O.M ROBERTS
268
ing the initials E. A., with very light green gesso school is, like all others, made up of men of
decoration on a gold ground, designed especially moderate capacity and good intentions, with some
for a portrait of the little daughter of Mrs. half-dozen leaders who stand head and shoulders
Andrews, by whose kind permission it is here above their fellows. To have anticipated that the
illustrated. exhibition would have presented a congeries of
- masterpieces was to expect the impossible ; we
Some details of decoration of a room designed have really every reason to be both surprised and
and modelled by Mr. James R. Cooper, for Mr. J.G. pleased at the considerable amount of good work
Gibbons Sankey, a London architect, are illustrated which it actually contains. Such a landscape as
on page 266. The fragment, which fills each angle Mr. Arthur Streeton's Purple Noorfs Transparent
of the ceiling and repeats four times to form the Light, with its admirable drawing and aerial per-
centre ornament, shows pleasant, simple lines of spective, and its splendid force of colour, would
foliage, suggested probably by Indian maize. The hold its own in any London gallery ; and such a
whole ceiling is thus enriched with comparatively vigorous piece of action as The Golden Fleece, by
little ornament, but that little being good the whole Mr. Tom Roberts, with its groups of busy shearers,
effect is admirable. The figure is one of two sup- is worthy of the sincere approval of every one who
porting each end of a panelled beam above the holds that the best occupation for the artist is to be
large bay window. The subject, a wood-nymph found in the illustration of modern life. The one
(about 2 feet 4 inches high), is finished in colour. peculiarity of the show is the manner in which
- landscapes predominate. Only a few noteworthy
So much has been said during the past winter figure pictures appear, and the most important of
about the artistic possibilities of the exhibition of these are the contributions of three men—Mr.
Australian art at the Grafton Gallery that the show Longstaff, Mr. E. P. Fox, and Mr. J. R. Ashton—
itself may have come to many people somewhat as who are fortunately painters of exceptional capacity,
a disappointment. Yet it has revealed what every Decorative figure subjects seem to come hardly
one who had studied the progress of the art move- within the scope of the Australian school, for with
ment in Australia knew already, that the native the exception of Mr. S. Long's fanciful Spirit of the
THE GOLDEN FLEECE " BY I O.M ROBERTS
268