DOI Heft:
No. 95 (February, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0076
Studto-Talk
" CURSE THE GOLD " By ALFRED COFFEY
the moon breaking with difficulty through the summer afternoon effect ot fleeting iridescent tints
clouds. was cleverly depicted. The most important exhibit
- by Mr. Moore Jones, whose work is rapidly gaining
I hope shortly to be able to deal with the strength, was The Awakening Soul of Adam. Adam
important exhibition now open here. A. T. is shown as a youth entranced by the glory of his
first sunrise. A clever anatomical study, with the
SYDNEY.—The last Art Exhibition will difficulty of the lighting excellently overcome,
be memorable for the rapid advance The Moon is up—yet 'tis not night, by Mr. A. J.
shown by our younger artists, notably Daplyn, was chiefly creditable for the happy way he
Messrs. Wolinski, Alfred Coffey, and had realised the ethereal light—effects of " 'twixt
Moore Jones. Mr. Wolinski's chief contribution sunset and moonrise."
was his scholarship picture, After Life's fitful fevei -
he sleeps well, which has been purchased by the Miss Theodora Cowan has just completed a
National Gallery. Mr. Alfred Coffey's principal strikingly realistic bust of the Right Hon. Edmund
exhibit, entitled Curse the Gold, presented a Barton, Q.C. (Prime Minister of the Australian
stretch of the sun-scorched country typical of the Commonwealth). Miss Cowan is an Australian
West Australian Gold Territory. A prospector is sculptress, trained at Florence. She is well
lying in thirst-choking agony whilst his mate (some- represented in our National Gallery by a number
what melodramatically) curses the siren that has of cleverly modelled portraits,
lured them to such a desolate spot. The shimmering -
haze of the pitiless sun is excellently realised. As this year will usher in the Australian
-• Commonwealth with its nationalising of our aims
Mr. W. Lister-Lister's chief work presented a and ambitions, it is interesting to glance back
view of the entrance to Sydney Harbour at the through our short art history and note its develop-
moment of the departure of the Australian con- ment, with its gradual elimination of the English
tingent for South Africa. The composition was art influences from our work, and the assimilation
exceedingly clever, from the bunched masses of of the Australian. Time was when our sole art
sun-tipped foliage in the foreground to the massive treasures were glimpses of our land as seen
headland in the distance. The characteristic through the eyes of visiting English artists who
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" CURSE THE GOLD " By ALFRED COFFEY
the moon breaking with difficulty through the summer afternoon effect ot fleeting iridescent tints
clouds. was cleverly depicted. The most important exhibit
- by Mr. Moore Jones, whose work is rapidly gaining
I hope shortly to be able to deal with the strength, was The Awakening Soul of Adam. Adam
important exhibition now open here. A. T. is shown as a youth entranced by the glory of his
first sunrise. A clever anatomical study, with the
SYDNEY.—The last Art Exhibition will difficulty of the lighting excellently overcome,
be memorable for the rapid advance The Moon is up—yet 'tis not night, by Mr. A. J.
shown by our younger artists, notably Daplyn, was chiefly creditable for the happy way he
Messrs. Wolinski, Alfred Coffey, and had realised the ethereal light—effects of " 'twixt
Moore Jones. Mr. Wolinski's chief contribution sunset and moonrise."
was his scholarship picture, After Life's fitful fevei -
he sleeps well, which has been purchased by the Miss Theodora Cowan has just completed a
National Gallery. Mr. Alfred Coffey's principal strikingly realistic bust of the Right Hon. Edmund
exhibit, entitled Curse the Gold, presented a Barton, Q.C. (Prime Minister of the Australian
stretch of the sun-scorched country typical of the Commonwealth). Miss Cowan is an Australian
West Australian Gold Territory. A prospector is sculptress, trained at Florence. She is well
lying in thirst-choking agony whilst his mate (some- represented in our National Gallery by a number
what melodramatically) curses the siren that has of cleverly modelled portraits,
lured them to such a desolate spot. The shimmering -
haze of the pitiless sun is excellently realised. As this year will usher in the Australian
-• Commonwealth with its nationalising of our aims
Mr. W. Lister-Lister's chief work presented a and ambitions, it is interesting to glance back
view of the entrance to Sydney Harbour at the through our short art history and note its develop-
moment of the departure of the Australian con- ment, with its gradual elimination of the English
tingent for South Africa. The composition was art influences from our work, and the assimilation
exceedingly clever, from the bunched masses of of the Australian. Time was when our sole art
sun-tipped foliage in the foreground to the massive treasures were glimpses of our land as seen
headland in the distance. The characteristic through the eyes of visiting English artists who
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