DOI Heft:
No. 86 (May, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Some work by the students of the Glasgow School of Art
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0251
Glasgow School of Art
above the average level, and you have the making excellence, and noteworthy in this gallery was The
of an artist. When the aim is to train a designer, Seal Coat, by A. Struan Robertson, a study of a
his ideality and invention, even if it be crudely lady in black, strong in realisation of character and
expressed, should be encouraged at all costs, other- treatment, and the portrait by A. C. Hector. In
wise the effect will be to produce an unimaginative landscape and genre subjects there were many
machine. To insist on accuracy of drawing, know- pictures calling for detailed notice, but reference
ledge of structure and arrangement, which are can only be made to two or three. One of
principles capable of being taught, is extremely the most promising pictures in the exhibition
desirable, but to do so without depriving the was Holmes Water, by Colin G. Mitchell, a
student of his originality, and reducing him to a broad stretch of an inland river with wooded
mere mechanical transcriber of other men's ideas, bank, the foliage bright with summer tints,
is difficult indeed. How far the Glasgow School Mrs. Newbery's White Cottage showed how, in
of Art has been successful in imparting to its the treatment of a simple theme, familiar details
students sound knowledge of the principle of can be set down with fine pictorial effect. One
design without sacrifice of originality or freshness of Emmet Brady's contributions, Southwick, was
is shown by this exhibition, especially in the full of life and sparkle, sketched in a light silvery
Decorative Art Section, under the supervision and scheme of colour. Miss Rowat showed a water-
control of Mr. John Guthrie. Words used to colour drawing remarkable for its sympathetic
express the qualities of any art production are appreciation of child character, simply treated
naturally inadequate, and our notice of this interest- with excellent effect.
ing show is necessarily brief. Pictorial art natu- Munro Orr showed some of his characteristic
rally occupied most space, and the marked advance work in black and white on brown paper, which
on the part of some of the older students was not were charming examples; one in particular, The
less noticeable than the signs of progress and con- Phantom Ship, displayed a fine power and under-
fidence in the work of younger students. Some of standing of the right interpretation of anatomical
the portraiture work reached a high level of artistic detail and action. Architectural drawings were
formerly con-
sidered unin-
teresting and
dull by the
general public,
but in Glasgow
a new school
has arisen, and
Mr. Donald
McK. Stoddart
showed two ad-
mirable pastel
drawings which
could not fail
to interest. We
hope soon to
illustrate a se-
lection of this
clever young
artist's work.
Turning now
to a few of the
more impor-
tant exhibits of
actual works
designed and
executed by
JEWEL CASKET DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY MISS DE COURCY L. DEWAR members, it
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above the average level, and you have the making excellence, and noteworthy in this gallery was The
of an artist. When the aim is to train a designer, Seal Coat, by A. Struan Robertson, a study of a
his ideality and invention, even if it be crudely lady in black, strong in realisation of character and
expressed, should be encouraged at all costs, other- treatment, and the portrait by A. C. Hector. In
wise the effect will be to produce an unimaginative landscape and genre subjects there were many
machine. To insist on accuracy of drawing, know- pictures calling for detailed notice, but reference
ledge of structure and arrangement, which are can only be made to two or three. One of
principles capable of being taught, is extremely the most promising pictures in the exhibition
desirable, but to do so without depriving the was Holmes Water, by Colin G. Mitchell, a
student of his originality, and reducing him to a broad stretch of an inland river with wooded
mere mechanical transcriber of other men's ideas, bank, the foliage bright with summer tints,
is difficult indeed. How far the Glasgow School Mrs. Newbery's White Cottage showed how, in
of Art has been successful in imparting to its the treatment of a simple theme, familiar details
students sound knowledge of the principle of can be set down with fine pictorial effect. One
design without sacrifice of originality or freshness of Emmet Brady's contributions, Southwick, was
is shown by this exhibition, especially in the full of life and sparkle, sketched in a light silvery
Decorative Art Section, under the supervision and scheme of colour. Miss Rowat showed a water-
control of Mr. John Guthrie. Words used to colour drawing remarkable for its sympathetic
express the qualities of any art production are appreciation of child character, simply treated
naturally inadequate, and our notice of this interest- with excellent effect.
ing show is necessarily brief. Pictorial art natu- Munro Orr showed some of his characteristic
rally occupied most space, and the marked advance work in black and white on brown paper, which
on the part of some of the older students was not were charming examples; one in particular, The
less noticeable than the signs of progress and con- Phantom Ship, displayed a fine power and under-
fidence in the work of younger students. Some of standing of the right interpretation of anatomical
the portraiture work reached a high level of artistic detail and action. Architectural drawings were
formerly con-
sidered unin-
teresting and
dull by the
general public,
but in Glasgow
a new school
has arisen, and
Mr. Donald
McK. Stoddart
showed two ad-
mirable pastel
drawings which
could not fail
to interest. We
hope soon to
illustrate a se-
lection of this
clever young
artist's work.
Turning now
to a few of the
more impor-
tant exhibits of
actual works
designed and
executed by
JEWEL CASKET DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY MISS DE COURCY L. DEWAR members, it
238