DOI Heft:
No. 89 (Aug. 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0219
Studio- Talk
We have pleasure in giving an illustration on Mr. John Lavery's White Feathers, and My Crown
page 186 of an admirable embossed leather book- and Sceptre, by Mr. T. C. Gotch, for the National
cover for " The Passionate Pilgrim," by Miss Gallery of New South Wales, deserves to be re-
Mary G. Houston. corded. These three artists are ranked as leaders
— of the modern school by everyone in this country
A candle-sconce in hammered steel, the work of who watches the progress of sesthetic developments,
Miss Gertrude Smith, is illustrated on page 187. and it is interesting to see that their powers are
It is decorated with a fine enamel panel, represent- equally recognised in other parts of the world. On
ing some tall their merits as
pine trees and a ^^riHHHh^^ instances of
rich blue even- ^^^flf^^BflSBf^^VH^ soundtechnical
ing sky. JBHW accomplish-
ment the pic-
Mr. Wickham M tures selected
Jarvis has re- / ■ are certainly
cently complet- worthy of places
ed a design for ^^^QsBk m a national
awoodenclock- ByfeB^^H collection,
case, an illus-
tration of which jfl HI There has
appears on page JH Wk been recently
187. JHBJ ML.- H growing up in
this country a
It is always B H school of what
worth while to I may be called
make a special B decorative
note of the man- |H jr , ., 'VjS9 H| genre painting,
ner in which , H a school that
the directors of Bj BJ includes many
public galleries V of the most
turn to account BJ ingenious and
the opportuni- WM BJv imaginative of
ties that come the younger
to them of artists who are
adding to the V I making with
collections for \ I conspicuous
which they are BJBr success the art
responsible. In H history of our
the case of those times. The
galleries espec- chief among
ially which buy ^^*BB " these artists is
modern pic- certainly Mr.
tures there is a "white feathers" by John lavery, r.s a. Byam Shaw,
good deal of (Purchased by the New South Wales National Gallery) in whose work
significance in the combina-
the purchases tion of qualities
made, for necessarily the works selected are not that distinguishes the whole group is best balanced
those that have been hailed by many generations and most complete; but there are other painters
of experts as indisputable masterpieces, but instead, who are well worthy to be associated with him.
the best obtainable examples of contemporary One of these, Mr. Arthur A. Dixon, gave in the
painters who seem to the men of their own time picture The King's Garden, which he exhibited at
to be worthy of prominent places among the great the Academy, evidence of the possession of a
art workers of the world. Therefore the recent very pleasant fancy and a very sincere technical
acquisition of Mr. Bertram Priestman's Homewards, method. He has capacities that should gain him
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We have pleasure in giving an illustration on Mr. John Lavery's White Feathers, and My Crown
page 186 of an admirable embossed leather book- and Sceptre, by Mr. T. C. Gotch, for the National
cover for " The Passionate Pilgrim," by Miss Gallery of New South Wales, deserves to be re-
Mary G. Houston. corded. These three artists are ranked as leaders
— of the modern school by everyone in this country
A candle-sconce in hammered steel, the work of who watches the progress of sesthetic developments,
Miss Gertrude Smith, is illustrated on page 187. and it is interesting to see that their powers are
It is decorated with a fine enamel panel, represent- equally recognised in other parts of the world. On
ing some tall their merits as
pine trees and a ^^riHHHh^^ instances of
rich blue even- ^^^flf^^BflSBf^^VH^ soundtechnical
ing sky. JBHW accomplish-
ment the pic-
Mr. Wickham M tures selected
Jarvis has re- / ■ are certainly
cently complet- worthy of places
ed a design for ^^^QsBk m a national
awoodenclock- ByfeB^^H collection,
case, an illus-
tration of which jfl HI There has
appears on page JH Wk been recently
187. JHBJ ML.- H growing up in
this country a
It is always B H school of what
worth while to I may be called
make a special B decorative
note of the man- |H jr , ., 'VjS9 H| genre painting,
ner in which , H a school that
the directors of Bj BJ includes many
public galleries V of the most
turn to account BJ ingenious and
the opportuni- WM BJv imaginative of
ties that come the younger
to them of artists who are
adding to the V I making with
collections for \ I conspicuous
which they are BJBr success the art
responsible. In H history of our
the case of those times. The
galleries espec- chief among
ially which buy ^^*BB " these artists is
modern pic- certainly Mr.
tures there is a "white feathers" by John lavery, r.s a. Byam Shaw,
good deal of (Purchased by the New South Wales National Gallery) in whose work
significance in the combina-
the purchases tion of qualities
made, for necessarily the works selected are not that distinguishes the whole group is best balanced
those that have been hailed by many generations and most complete; but there are other painters
of experts as indisputable masterpieces, but instead, who are well worthy to be associated with him.
the best obtainable examples of contemporary One of these, Mr. Arthur A. Dixon, gave in the
painters who seem to the men of their own time picture The King's Garden, which he exhibited at
to be worthy of prominent places among the great the Academy, evidence of the possession of a
art workers of the world. Therefore the recent very pleasant fancy and a very sincere technical
acquisition of Mr. Bertram Priestman's Homewards, method. He has capacities that should gain him
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