DOI Heft:
No. 95 (February, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0077
Studio-Talk
painted with all the vivid emerald greens and most interesting exhibit was a portfolio of water-
northern atmospheric effects so antipodean to our colour sketches, charming in tone and feeling,
dull greens and clear-cut southern light. We yet Mr. Walter Withers had one upright landscape
lack the classic and imaginary school as typified of medium size—a sloping bank of native grass
by Leighton and Burne-Jones — our colonising studded with gum-trees, and a few cattle drink-
conditions hardly tended to such a grand level— ing from a pool in a hollow. His other two
but in Mr. Long and some of our younger artists exhibits were small sketches. Mr. Colquhoun
we have a rapidly developing idealistic school showed some good work, and Miss Violet Teague
which will yet emblazon Australian art on the walls exhibited portraits. Mr. Waite's big picture carried
of the European galleries. This year is notable us back to the time of Landseer, the subject being
for the great exodus of our art students to such as that painter loved to depict. Miss Clara
assimilate the highest art tuition Europe can Southern's work was sympathetic and charming,
bestow, and with the nationalising of our destinies Shortly before this exhibition Mr. John Ford
in the approaching Federation we enter a future Patterson and Mr. E. Phillips Fox had each had a
of enormous possibilities in our art development. private show, and were therefore not represented
G. T. at the Society's exhibition.
MELBOURNE.—The Victorian Artists' -
Society opened its exhibition on The Trustees of the Melbourne National Gallery
November 5th, the day previous to have purchased for £200 a large landscape by
the great Australasian festival—the Mr. Ford Patterson, entitled A Bush Symphony.
Melbourne Cup. Mr. Fred McCubbin was repre --
sented by one small canvas only. Mr. Mather's "The Souvenir Book" of the Melbourne Chil-
dren's Hospital, compiled and edited by
Mr. Joshua Lake, and entitled " Child-
hood in Bud and Blossom," was pub-
lished in two forms—an edition de luxe at
is. 6d. a copy, and a half-crown edition.
The proceeds of the sale of the book
were devoted to the funds of the hos-
pital. The frontispiece is a reproduc-
tion of the original full-length portrait of
the Queen that Her Majesty presented
to the Children's Hospital. Mr. Lake
secured contributions to the book from
all sorts and conditions of men, and
between its pages is a memorable collec-
tion of the innermost thoughts of some
noble men and women, in some instances
pictorially expressed by living artists.
Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, who must
at the moment have been much per-
plexed by manifold difficulties, found
time to write a letter to the Primate of
New Zealand. This letter is faithfully
reproduced, together with a striking
portrait of the great commander.
On another page there is reproduced
a photograph of the versatile Major-
General Baden - Powell, who in the
midst of his war troubles found time
to answer the appeal for help from
the Hospital Committee. He sent
the right hon. edmund barton, q c. by theodora cowan an original parody on Longfellow's
59
painted with all the vivid emerald greens and most interesting exhibit was a portfolio of water-
northern atmospheric effects so antipodean to our colour sketches, charming in tone and feeling,
dull greens and clear-cut southern light. We yet Mr. Walter Withers had one upright landscape
lack the classic and imaginary school as typified of medium size—a sloping bank of native grass
by Leighton and Burne-Jones — our colonising studded with gum-trees, and a few cattle drink-
conditions hardly tended to such a grand level— ing from a pool in a hollow. His other two
but in Mr. Long and some of our younger artists exhibits were small sketches. Mr. Colquhoun
we have a rapidly developing idealistic school showed some good work, and Miss Violet Teague
which will yet emblazon Australian art on the walls exhibited portraits. Mr. Waite's big picture carried
of the European galleries. This year is notable us back to the time of Landseer, the subject being
for the great exodus of our art students to such as that painter loved to depict. Miss Clara
assimilate the highest art tuition Europe can Southern's work was sympathetic and charming,
bestow, and with the nationalising of our destinies Shortly before this exhibition Mr. John Ford
in the approaching Federation we enter a future Patterson and Mr. E. Phillips Fox had each had a
of enormous possibilities in our art development. private show, and were therefore not represented
G. T. at the Society's exhibition.
MELBOURNE.—The Victorian Artists' -
Society opened its exhibition on The Trustees of the Melbourne National Gallery
November 5th, the day previous to have purchased for £200 a large landscape by
the great Australasian festival—the Mr. Ford Patterson, entitled A Bush Symphony.
Melbourne Cup. Mr. Fred McCubbin was repre --
sented by one small canvas only. Mr. Mather's "The Souvenir Book" of the Melbourne Chil-
dren's Hospital, compiled and edited by
Mr. Joshua Lake, and entitled " Child-
hood in Bud and Blossom," was pub-
lished in two forms—an edition de luxe at
is. 6d. a copy, and a half-crown edition.
The proceeds of the sale of the book
were devoted to the funds of the hos-
pital. The frontispiece is a reproduc-
tion of the original full-length portrait of
the Queen that Her Majesty presented
to the Children's Hospital. Mr. Lake
secured contributions to the book from
all sorts and conditions of men, and
between its pages is a memorable collec-
tion of the innermost thoughts of some
noble men and women, in some instances
pictorially expressed by living artists.
Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, who must
at the moment have been much per-
plexed by manifold difficulties, found
time to write a letter to the Primate of
New Zealand. This letter is faithfully
reproduced, together with a striking
portrait of the great commander.
On another page there is reproduced
a photograph of the versatile Major-
General Baden - Powell, who in the
midst of his war troubles found time
to answer the appeal for help from
the Hospital Committee. He sent
the right hon. edmund barton, q c. by theodora cowan an original parody on Longfellow's
59