DOI issue:
No. 67 (October 1898)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0066
Studio- Talk
erecting a new permanent National Gallery, which next five years, provided the pictures are first
should be completed in less than two years' time. exhibited at this exhibition or at one of the four
Until then the trustees will wisely hold their hand. succeeding exhibitions of the society. Should the
Meanwhile a few good chances have not been works call for it, this sum will be largely increased.
allowed to escape them, under the expert advice of -
their skilled and trusty Director, Mr. Harry P. Gill. The society is the parent art body of the pro-
- vince. It began, as did all the early Australian
The South Australian Society of Arts has put art movements, by collecting subscriptions for
forth a prospectus of a "Federal Exhibition" to distributing works of art by an Art Union, and for
be opened in Adelaide about the middle of a quarter of a century it was an association of art
November. The pictures are to be Australian patrons, not artists. Although it was recognised
only, but they will embrace all the colonies, and by Parliament in 1884 and helped by public
the Elder Will trustees have engaged to spend money, it gradually ceased to influence the
,£250 per annum on Australian pictures for the art progress of the country until 1892, when
students and others who had grown
into practising artists entered its
ranks and reformed its objects and
management. Without the usual
fight which has accompanied such
developments elsewhere, the art
direction of the society was then
reserved to the professional mem-
bers, while all the other ancient
privileges were conserved to its non-
professional subscribers, who also
share in the business government.
With Chief-Justice Way as Presi-
dent, the scheme works smoothly
and well, and under his trusted
guidance the society was finally in-
corporated in 1894. Since then it
has done good work and has been
warmly befriended by the Governors
of the National Gallery. The hon-
orary secretary, Mr. H. E. Powell,
has issued invitations to every society
in Australasia, and the Elder Be-
quest—the largest private donation
ever made here for pictures—has
aroused anew the Australian public
interest in fine art, dormant perforce
for the last five years since the com-
mercial crisis of 1893.
J. L.
R
INGWOOD.—Log-houses
are rare in England, and
one of such dimensions
as " Idaho," recently
built for Mr. Arthur
Loyd, near Ringwood, is no doubt
unique. The owner took the idea
TANKARD IN IVORY AND REPOUSSE COPPER BY R. GARBE from the log-hoUSeS at the Chicago
(See London Studio-Talk) Exhibition, where each State ex-
5°
erecting a new permanent National Gallery, which next five years, provided the pictures are first
should be completed in less than two years' time. exhibited at this exhibition or at one of the four
Until then the trustees will wisely hold their hand. succeeding exhibitions of the society. Should the
Meanwhile a few good chances have not been works call for it, this sum will be largely increased.
allowed to escape them, under the expert advice of -
their skilled and trusty Director, Mr. Harry P. Gill. The society is the parent art body of the pro-
- vince. It began, as did all the early Australian
The South Australian Society of Arts has put art movements, by collecting subscriptions for
forth a prospectus of a "Federal Exhibition" to distributing works of art by an Art Union, and for
be opened in Adelaide about the middle of a quarter of a century it was an association of art
November. The pictures are to be Australian patrons, not artists. Although it was recognised
only, but they will embrace all the colonies, and by Parliament in 1884 and helped by public
the Elder Will trustees have engaged to spend money, it gradually ceased to influence the
,£250 per annum on Australian pictures for the art progress of the country until 1892, when
students and others who had grown
into practising artists entered its
ranks and reformed its objects and
management. Without the usual
fight which has accompanied such
developments elsewhere, the art
direction of the society was then
reserved to the professional mem-
bers, while all the other ancient
privileges were conserved to its non-
professional subscribers, who also
share in the business government.
With Chief-Justice Way as Presi-
dent, the scheme works smoothly
and well, and under his trusted
guidance the society was finally in-
corporated in 1894. Since then it
has done good work and has been
warmly befriended by the Governors
of the National Gallery. The hon-
orary secretary, Mr. H. E. Powell,
has issued invitations to every society
in Australasia, and the Elder Be-
quest—the largest private donation
ever made here for pictures—has
aroused anew the Australian public
interest in fine art, dormant perforce
for the last five years since the com-
mercial crisis of 1893.
J. L.
R
INGWOOD.—Log-houses
are rare in England, and
one of such dimensions
as " Idaho," recently
built for Mr. Arthur
Loyd, near Ringwood, is no doubt
unique. The owner took the idea
TANKARD IN IVORY AND REPOUSSE COPPER BY R. GARBE from the log-hoUSeS at the Chicago
(See London Studio-Talk) Exhibition, where each State ex-
5°