DOI Heft:
No. 80 (November, 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0157
Studio- Talk
Street, facing the present buildings, and has even
consulted Mr. Aston Webb as to the best method
of filling this land to the greatest advantage ; so that
when the question of finding the large sum of money
necessary for architectural purposes arises it is to be
hoped that the ratepayers will plunge their hands
into their pockets without too much grumbling, and
that a new art gallery will arise worthy of the city.
The permanent collections of the Corporation
have recently been enriched with a number of gifts
and purchases, the latter from the Bardini and other
well-known sales. Among the former is included a
very beautiful example of Copley Fielding, a water-
colour called In Arundel Park. Mr. W. J. Wain-
wright, A.R.W.S., has just completed the commis-
sion which was given to him by the committee
nearly fifteen years ago, over which the city was
becoming a little impatient. The artist has been
slow, owing to his anxiety to produce something
worthy of a place in the gallery of his native city.
The picture, The Wise and Foolish Virgins, is very
admirably painted, with technical qualities of high
!
"la touraine" {See Paris
excellence, fine drawing, and great beauty of colour.
Some of the critics find fault with the composition,
and say the perspective is too exaggerated, while the
unusual point of view selected by the painter for
his treatment of the subject does not entirely please
others. It is a notable work, however, and criticism
would have been, perhaps, less keen if the work
had been completed ten years ago.
The autumn exhibition of the local Royal Society
of Artists is better than usual, and the incompetent
amateur is much less in evidence. Among the
pictures contributed by Birmingham men there are
several of real excellence, such as The Lost Sheep,
by Charles M. Gere, a beautiful landscape which
was in the New Gallery; The Stour: Slimmer
Evening, by Moffat Lindner; two charming land-
scape drawings by E. Gabriel Mitchell; several
small canvases by J. V. Jelley; and others by
Walter Langley, Wainwright, H. H. Sands, Arthur
J. Gaskin, and Oliver Baker. Among the other
pictures are to be found a number of London suc-
cesses of this and the last few years, including A
Studio-Talk) by fritz thaulow
137
Street, facing the present buildings, and has even
consulted Mr. Aston Webb as to the best method
of filling this land to the greatest advantage ; so that
when the question of finding the large sum of money
necessary for architectural purposes arises it is to be
hoped that the ratepayers will plunge their hands
into their pockets without too much grumbling, and
that a new art gallery will arise worthy of the city.
The permanent collections of the Corporation
have recently been enriched with a number of gifts
and purchases, the latter from the Bardini and other
well-known sales. Among the former is included a
very beautiful example of Copley Fielding, a water-
colour called In Arundel Park. Mr. W. J. Wain-
wright, A.R.W.S., has just completed the commis-
sion which was given to him by the committee
nearly fifteen years ago, over which the city was
becoming a little impatient. The artist has been
slow, owing to his anxiety to produce something
worthy of a place in the gallery of his native city.
The picture, The Wise and Foolish Virgins, is very
admirably painted, with technical qualities of high
!
"la touraine" {See Paris
excellence, fine drawing, and great beauty of colour.
Some of the critics find fault with the composition,
and say the perspective is too exaggerated, while the
unusual point of view selected by the painter for
his treatment of the subject does not entirely please
others. It is a notable work, however, and criticism
would have been, perhaps, less keen if the work
had been completed ten years ago.
The autumn exhibition of the local Royal Society
of Artists is better than usual, and the incompetent
amateur is much less in evidence. Among the
pictures contributed by Birmingham men there are
several of real excellence, such as The Lost Sheep,
by Charles M. Gere, a beautiful landscape which
was in the New Gallery; The Stour: Slimmer
Evening, by Moffat Lindner; two charming land-
scape drawings by E. Gabriel Mitchell; several
small canvases by J. V. Jelley; and others by
Walter Langley, Wainwright, H. H. Sands, Arthur
J. Gaskin, and Oliver Baker. Among the other
pictures are to be found a number of London suc-
cesses of this and the last few years, including A
Studio-Talk) by fritz thaulow
137