DOI issue:
No. 82 (January, 1900)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0317
Studio- Talk
"AENEAS LEAVING TROY " BY A. B. PEGRAM
paid in some countries, as in France; here in
England, on the other hand, we are so keenly alive
to the perils of burlesque that our caricatures often
err on the side of tameness. As for Mr. Mayer, he
takes pains to avoid our defect of tameness, yet his
work is usually quite as genial as it is vigorous and
unconventional. This is the rule, and we know of
but two exceptions.
Mr. Charles H. Pepper is an artist in a very
different line. He is one of those who carry into
water-colour drawing the flatness of effect so essen-
tial in the poster, and this decorative treatment is
emphasised by firm outlines. We note, too, that his
colour has often the peculiar charm of pastels. Is
it right, or wrong, that an artist in water-colours
should encroach thus on the pastellist's field of work?
This is a question which everybody must answer
for himself. For the moment we pass it by, as
there is no room here to deal with it properly. One
thing, at least, is certain : that Mr. Pepper is a
refined colourist with a pleasing sense of form, of
character, and of decoration. In the forty-one
288
drawings exhibited at Mr. Dunthorne's Gallery, he
was quite at his ease in subjects ranging from
Breton landscapes and peasants to beautiful Ameri-
can girls; and we were also glad to see that he had
avoided the bad English example of filling the
catalogue with sentimental verses and titles, as if
the art of painting were in need of such tiresome
mistakes of judgment.
PARIS.—In the little gallery of the "Societe
d'Editions Litteraires et Artistiques," 50,
Chaussee d'Antin, M. Paul Rossert
recently exhibited a score of most
interesting water-colours. They con-
sisted, for the most part, of landscape scenes in the
Luxembourg Gardens, the golden light of the first
days of autumn emphasising the contrast between
" /ENEAS LEAVING TROY " BY S. N. BABJS
"AENEAS LEAVING TROY " BY A. B. PEGRAM
paid in some countries, as in France; here in
England, on the other hand, we are so keenly alive
to the perils of burlesque that our caricatures often
err on the side of tameness. As for Mr. Mayer, he
takes pains to avoid our defect of tameness, yet his
work is usually quite as genial as it is vigorous and
unconventional. This is the rule, and we know of
but two exceptions.
Mr. Charles H. Pepper is an artist in a very
different line. He is one of those who carry into
water-colour drawing the flatness of effect so essen-
tial in the poster, and this decorative treatment is
emphasised by firm outlines. We note, too, that his
colour has often the peculiar charm of pastels. Is
it right, or wrong, that an artist in water-colours
should encroach thus on the pastellist's field of work?
This is a question which everybody must answer
for himself. For the moment we pass it by, as
there is no room here to deal with it properly. One
thing, at least, is certain : that Mr. Pepper is a
refined colourist with a pleasing sense of form, of
character, and of decoration. In the forty-one
288
drawings exhibited at Mr. Dunthorne's Gallery, he
was quite at his ease in subjects ranging from
Breton landscapes and peasants to beautiful Ameri-
can girls; and we were also glad to see that he had
avoided the bad English example of filling the
catalogue with sentimental verses and titles, as if
the art of painting were in need of such tiresome
mistakes of judgment.
PARIS.—In the little gallery of the "Societe
d'Editions Litteraires et Artistiques," 50,
Chaussee d'Antin, M. Paul Rossert
recently exhibited a score of most
interesting water-colours. They con-
sisted, for the most part, of landscape scenes in the
Luxembourg Gardens, the golden light of the first
days of autumn emphasising the contrast between
" /ENEAS LEAVING TROY " BY S. N. BABJS