DOI Heft:
No. 73 (April 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19231#0223
Studio- Talk
associated with the names of the leading Glasgow assimilated the ideas evolved in the atmosphere o
painters who have been already cited, and with the circle. _
whom at the outset of his career he was in close
association, studying and formulating new ideals in Born in Aberdeenshire, Mr. Macgillivray, who is
art, experimenting with technical methods which the son of a sculptor, was brought up in Edinburgh,
should be powerful and expressive rather than neat He attended the School of Design and went through
and finished in appearance, working for tonal effects the usual curriculum, but emerged from it un-
and striving how to give his art a personal and medalled. That was some twenty years ago in the
individual quality. To have been one of that prime of the now archaic stippled drawing, when
small circle of earnest and enthusiastic artists who the prize-taking student with painful laboriousness
originally formed the now notable Glasgow school, put in a couple of sessions on one study from the
with their direct look at Nature and freedom from antique. Under better guidance the efforts of the
overmastering tradition, must be regarded as having student in this case were directed to outline work,
been a great privilege by those who had the good which brought no prizes but cultivated a strong
fortune to be of the number. Devoted and sense of form and line. For six years Mr. Mac-
courageous himself, Mr. Macgillivray was doubtless gillivray was an assistant in the studio of the late
a factor in the forward movement, and readily Mr. William Brodie, R.S.A., Edinburgh, and
two years in the studio
of Mr. John Mossman,
H.R.S.A., Glasgow. He
has recently returned to
reside in Edinburgh,
where his ideal work and
portrait busts, by their
unconventionally of
treatment and their ad-
mirable combination of
power and style, at once
began to attract notice,
and election to the Asso-
ciateship of the Scottish
Academy speedily fol-
lowed.
Although a frequent
visitor to Brussels and
Paris, Mr. Macgillivray
has never worked in any
atelier abroad; but it is
evident by his technique
that he is conversant with
the methods of the French
and Belgian artists, and
in sympathy with the
sentiment and style of the
latter-day school of sculp-
ture. The efforts of
such men as Rodin and
Meunier, Dillens and
Vanderstappen, claim his
attention on account of
their picturesque and
"emotional nature, as
'burns and highland mary" jsy piTTENDRiGH macgillivray against the more polished
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associated with the names of the leading Glasgow assimilated the ideas evolved in the atmosphere o
painters who have been already cited, and with the circle. _
whom at the outset of his career he was in close
association, studying and formulating new ideals in Born in Aberdeenshire, Mr. Macgillivray, who is
art, experimenting with technical methods which the son of a sculptor, was brought up in Edinburgh,
should be powerful and expressive rather than neat He attended the School of Design and went through
and finished in appearance, working for tonal effects the usual curriculum, but emerged from it un-
and striving how to give his art a personal and medalled. That was some twenty years ago in the
individual quality. To have been one of that prime of the now archaic stippled drawing, when
small circle of earnest and enthusiastic artists who the prize-taking student with painful laboriousness
originally formed the now notable Glasgow school, put in a couple of sessions on one study from the
with their direct look at Nature and freedom from antique. Under better guidance the efforts of the
overmastering tradition, must be regarded as having student in this case were directed to outline work,
been a great privilege by those who had the good which brought no prizes but cultivated a strong
fortune to be of the number. Devoted and sense of form and line. For six years Mr. Mac-
courageous himself, Mr. Macgillivray was doubtless gillivray was an assistant in the studio of the late
a factor in the forward movement, and readily Mr. William Brodie, R.S.A., Edinburgh, and
two years in the studio
of Mr. John Mossman,
H.R.S.A., Glasgow. He
has recently returned to
reside in Edinburgh,
where his ideal work and
portrait busts, by their
unconventionally of
treatment and their ad-
mirable combination of
power and style, at once
began to attract notice,
and election to the Asso-
ciateship of the Scottish
Academy speedily fol-
lowed.
Although a frequent
visitor to Brussels and
Paris, Mr. Macgillivray
has never worked in any
atelier abroad; but it is
evident by his technique
that he is conversant with
the methods of the French
and Belgian artists, and
in sympathy with the
sentiment and style of the
latter-day school of sculp-
ture. The efforts of
such men as Rodin and
Meunier, Dillens and
Vanderstappen, claim his
attention on account of
their picturesque and
"emotional nature, as
'burns and highland mary" jsy piTTENDRiGH macgillivray against the more polished
204