DOI Heft:
Nr. 100 (July 1901)
DOI Artikel:Hiatt, Charles T. J.: Some drawings by James Pryde
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0124
James Pryde s Drawings
passed over without comment either by the pro- are the result thereof. The average person who
fessional critic or the habitual visitor to the picture sees Mr. Pryde's work is satisfied to. brand it as
galleries. eccentric and to dismiss it. There is not much
Mr. Pryde has studied in Paris, but his vigorous to be said for an artist who strenuously makes a
artistic personality has prevented his brush and virtue of eccentricity, who attempts to hide his
pencil from acquiring that " French accent" weaknesses by the startling presentment of the
which Sir John Millais so energetically deplored, commonplace. But it is the lot of nearly every
It may well be that he left the French metropolis English painter who sees things from a new point
with new ideas, with increased technical resources, of view, and who sets down what he sees without
but he returned to England innocent of imitation compromise, to be dealt with in summary fashion,
of the work of any artist however distinguished. A short time passes, and the eccentrics of yesterday
He discovered no easy road to popular fame and are duly respected as the classics of to-day. So it
fortune, and if he had found one he would inevit- was with the pre-Raphaelites; so it was with Mr.
ably have despised it. He is a free-lance in that Whistler. Whether it will be so with Mr. Pryde
he will not tread a well-worn path, at the end of I shall not venture to say, for prophecy, in the
which there is the certainty of the applause of phrase of George Eliot, is the most gratuitous form
many voices and the material advantages which of error.
FROM A DRAWING
BY JAMES PRYDE
passed over without comment either by the pro- are the result thereof. The average person who
fessional critic or the habitual visitor to the picture sees Mr. Pryde's work is satisfied to. brand it as
galleries. eccentric and to dismiss it. There is not much
Mr. Pryde has studied in Paris, but his vigorous to be said for an artist who strenuously makes a
artistic personality has prevented his brush and virtue of eccentricity, who attempts to hide his
pencil from acquiring that " French accent" weaknesses by the startling presentment of the
which Sir John Millais so energetically deplored, commonplace. But it is the lot of nearly every
It may well be that he left the French metropolis English painter who sees things from a new point
with new ideas, with increased technical resources, of view, and who sets down what he sees without
but he returned to England innocent of imitation compromise, to be dealt with in summary fashion,
of the work of any artist however distinguished. A short time passes, and the eccentrics of yesterday
He discovered no easy road to popular fame and are duly respected as the classics of to-day. So it
fortune, and if he had found one he would inevit- was with the pre-Raphaelites; so it was with Mr.
ably have despised it. He is a free-lance in that Whistler. Whether it will be so with Mr. Pryde
he will not tread a well-worn path, at the end of I shall not venture to say, for prophecy, in the
which there is the certainty of the applause of phrase of George Eliot, is the most gratuitous form
many voices and the material advantages which of error.
FROM A DRAWING
BY JAMES PRYDE