DOI Heft:
No. 96 (March, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0141
Studio-Talk
from the life : first prize, Mr..
Ernest Board; and the same-
clever young artist won the
highest honour in painting
from the nude.
We have pleasure in re-
producing a memorial medal
by Air. D. McGill, in the
hope that it may suggest to
many families and public
institutions an excellent way
of honouring " the simple
great ones gone." Such
medals have two great ad-
vantages over other com-
memorative works of art.
They are convenient to carry
from place to place, and,
if necessary, they can be
struck by thousands. When
we think of these advantages
we cannot but hope that a
worthy medal, noble enough
to be a fitting national heir-
loom, will be struck in
memory of her late Majesty
Queen Victoria.
Mr. Wilfrid Ball is one of
those fortunate landscape
painters]! who have courage
enough to set a just value
on the peculiar freshness
and charm that belong to a
TART OF A DESIGN FOR A DECORATION BY FLORENCE E. CHAPLIN genuine OUtdoOr Sketch. It
has been said, certainly with
perfect justice, that good
and the colour-scheme is not so varied in its sketches from nature, filled with that subtle in-
emblematical harmonies. spiration which so soon evaporates, are the truest
- translators of an artist's genius. They come hot
The other important prizes were awarded as from the heart, and their airiness and vigour more
follows—the first Armitage prize (Joseph being than compensate for lack of finish. Note, too,
Sold by his Brethren), Mr. George Murray; that their best qualities may be destroyed as
second prize, Mr. Ernest Board. For a cartoon of easily as the exquisite bloom on grapes. He
a draped figure representing A Roman Senator, who attempts to enhance them by completing
seated, Mr. Fred Appleyard, ,£25 and a silver a fortunate sketch is almost certain to refine
medal. Drawing from the life : the first prize of them away, to lose them for good and all. It
^50 and silver medal was awarded to Mr. F. E. is for this reason, no doubt, that Mr. Wilfrid
Colthurst; the second prize of ,£25 to Mr. Fred Ball, like Mr. R. W. Allan, usually keeps his
Appleyard. Painting of a draped figure (for art free from those afterthoughts of the studio
female students only) : the first silver medal was with which so many brilliant sketchers quench
gained by Miss Gertrude Lindsay, and the second all the Promethean fire in their studies,
by Miss Maud M. Wear. Painting of a head -
119
from the life : first prize, Mr..
Ernest Board; and the same-
clever young artist won the
highest honour in painting
from the nude.
We have pleasure in re-
producing a memorial medal
by Air. D. McGill, in the
hope that it may suggest to
many families and public
institutions an excellent way
of honouring " the simple
great ones gone." Such
medals have two great ad-
vantages over other com-
memorative works of art.
They are convenient to carry
from place to place, and,
if necessary, they can be
struck by thousands. When
we think of these advantages
we cannot but hope that a
worthy medal, noble enough
to be a fitting national heir-
loom, will be struck in
memory of her late Majesty
Queen Victoria.
Mr. Wilfrid Ball is one of
those fortunate landscape
painters]! who have courage
enough to set a just value
on the peculiar freshness
and charm that belong to a
TART OF A DESIGN FOR A DECORATION BY FLORENCE E. CHAPLIN genuine OUtdoOr Sketch. It
has been said, certainly with
perfect justice, that good
and the colour-scheme is not so varied in its sketches from nature, filled with that subtle in-
emblematical harmonies. spiration which so soon evaporates, are the truest
- translators of an artist's genius. They come hot
The other important prizes were awarded as from the heart, and their airiness and vigour more
follows—the first Armitage prize (Joseph being than compensate for lack of finish. Note, too,
Sold by his Brethren), Mr. George Murray; that their best qualities may be destroyed as
second prize, Mr. Ernest Board. For a cartoon of easily as the exquisite bloom on grapes. He
a draped figure representing A Roman Senator, who attempts to enhance them by completing
seated, Mr. Fred Appleyard, ,£25 and a silver a fortunate sketch is almost certain to refine
medal. Drawing from the life : the first prize of them away, to lose them for good and all. It
^50 and silver medal was awarded to Mr. F. E. is for this reason, no doubt, that Mr. Wilfrid
Colthurst; the second prize of ,£25 to Mr. Fred Ball, like Mr. R. W. Allan, usually keeps his
Appleyard. Painting of a draped figure (for art free from those afterthoughts of the studio
female students only) : the first silver medal was with which so many brilliant sketchers quench
gained by Miss Gertrude Lindsay, and the second all the Promethean fire in their studies,
by Miss Maud M. Wear. Painting of a head -
119