DOI Heft:
No. 88 (July, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0133
Studio- Talk
were contributed by artists in America, Belgium, phases—as a close observer of nature, inten
Italy, Spain, Denmark, Austria, and the British only on recording exactly what he saw; as a
Isles, so that an excellent summary of the work deeply imaginative thinker, who could use effects
that is being done in this branch of art throughout of light and atmosphere to give him the most
the world was provided. In another section about amazing arrangements of colour and tone; as
five hundred designs were exhibited; these had an impressionist, with a receptiveness to sugges-
been sent in competition for medals offered for the tions that was astonishing in its vivid strength;
best things in the various classes of production, and as a precise and careful draughtsman, con-
The gold medal for the most satisfactory design, cerned chiefly with the realisation of delicate and
without reference to subject, was taken by Miss elaborate detail. In choosing them Mr. Ruskin
Mary Watson, of North Shields ; the silver medal, was clearly influenced by an honest enthusiasm;
by Mr. A. W. Pearce, of East Dulwich; and but this enthusiasm was so controlled by intelli-
twenty-four bronze medals were also awarded by gence that it led him into no mistakes, and
the judges, the chief of whom were Mr. G. C. never induced him to accept any work that was
Haite, Mr. Cecil Aldin, and Mr. Windsor Fry. not fully worthy of the master,
Sir J. D. Linton was
President of the Art
Committee. A good
deal of machinery
for colour printing
and kindred pur-
poses was on view,
in addition to the
posters and designs.
No better testi-
mony to the sound-
ness of Mr. Ruskin's
taste could be de-
sired than was
afforded by the
exhibition of his
collection of water-
colours by Turner,
which was lately
arranged in the
galleries of the Fine
Art Society. These
drawings, almost
without exception,
were conspicuously
excellent as ex-
amples of the
greatest accomplish-
ment of the su-
preme master of our
school, and in their
magnificent quali-
ties of invention
and execution were
impressive in the
highest degree.
They showed Tur-
ner in most of his. part of the "return of the pilgrims" by nico w. jungmann
109 , ■
were contributed by artists in America, Belgium, phases—as a close observer of nature, inten
Italy, Spain, Denmark, Austria, and the British only on recording exactly what he saw; as a
Isles, so that an excellent summary of the work deeply imaginative thinker, who could use effects
that is being done in this branch of art throughout of light and atmosphere to give him the most
the world was provided. In another section about amazing arrangements of colour and tone; as
five hundred designs were exhibited; these had an impressionist, with a receptiveness to sugges-
been sent in competition for medals offered for the tions that was astonishing in its vivid strength;
best things in the various classes of production, and as a precise and careful draughtsman, con-
The gold medal for the most satisfactory design, cerned chiefly with the realisation of delicate and
without reference to subject, was taken by Miss elaborate detail. In choosing them Mr. Ruskin
Mary Watson, of North Shields ; the silver medal, was clearly influenced by an honest enthusiasm;
by Mr. A. W. Pearce, of East Dulwich; and but this enthusiasm was so controlled by intelli-
twenty-four bronze medals were also awarded by gence that it led him into no mistakes, and
the judges, the chief of whom were Mr. G. C. never induced him to accept any work that was
Haite, Mr. Cecil Aldin, and Mr. Windsor Fry. not fully worthy of the master,
Sir J. D. Linton was
President of the Art
Committee. A good
deal of machinery
for colour printing
and kindred pur-
poses was on view,
in addition to the
posters and designs.
No better testi-
mony to the sound-
ness of Mr. Ruskin's
taste could be de-
sired than was
afforded by the
exhibition of his
collection of water-
colours by Turner,
which was lately
arranged in the
galleries of the Fine
Art Society. These
drawings, almost
without exception,
were conspicuously
excellent as ex-
amples of the
greatest accomplish-
ment of the su-
preme master of our
school, and in their
magnificent quali-
ties of invention
and execution were
impressive in the
highest degree.
They showed Tur-
ner in most of his. part of the "return of the pilgrims" by nico w. jungmann
109 , ■