DOI issue:
Nr. 102 (Septembre 1901)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0308
Studio- Talk
wonderfully good in quality. Absence of anything exclusively an East country combination. Mr.
by McCulloch, who, whatever his shortcomings, is McTaggart marks his honorary vice-presidentship by
the most characteristic Scottish landscape painter sending a characteristic picture to the show of his
of his period, or Milne Donald, or Graham Gilbert, young confreres. Mr. W. Y. MacGregor's little
is to be regretted; and it is a pity that the few landscape, one of his finest works, and Mr. Roche's
Scotsmen who have done anything in sculpture Study of a Girl's Head are also complete and
are completely ignored; but, on the whole, the rounded performances ; and Mr. Edwin Alexander
exhibition is fairly representative of the past of has a large and masterly water-colour of a Pca-
Scottish painting. hen and Chickens. Among other notable things
-- mention may be made of two landscapes by
One room has been devoted to Raeburn, and as Mr. Campbell Mitchell; of Mr. Robert Burns's
nearly forty of his pictures, including a considerable The Lute—the completest thing he has yet shown ;
proportion of his finest achievements, have been of Mr. Charles H. Mackie's The Japanese Picture
brought together, one has an admirable opportunity Book, and Mr. MacGeorge's A Day on the Shore.
of estimating the powers of this great painter. But The smaller space available this year necessitated
if Raeburn dominates the exhibition, he does not the abandonment of the usual loan collection, and
exhaust its interest. Three or four characteristic without its aid the weak points of the Society
Wilkies, fine portraits by Geddes and Watson were rather apparent J. L. C.
Gordon, several first-class
Phillips, and many typical
landscapes, among them
Castle Baan, perhaps the
loveliest picture painted,
by Thomson of Dudding-
ston ; two David Scotts of
rare quality, an exhaustive
representation of Sir W.
Fettes Douglas's remark-
able work in still life, genre,
and landscape, several
beautiful things by G. P.
Chalmers and some ex-
quisite landscapes by
Wintour and Alexander
Fraser; and a fair repre-
sentation of Duncan (the
two Prince Charlie pictures),
Harvey (Sheep-shearing and
others), Dyce, the Scott
Lauders, Sam Bough, and
Pettie sustain the interest
from first to last.
While the galleries on
the Mound may be said
to represent the past of
Scottish painting, the
Society of Scottish Artists'
exhibition, now open in
the French Gallery, Princes
Street, shows what is being
done by a section of the
younger men. Despite its embossed leather address cover , designed by h. g. fell
name, the Society is almost (See Bath Studio-Talk)
274
wonderfully good in quality. Absence of anything exclusively an East country combination. Mr.
by McCulloch, who, whatever his shortcomings, is McTaggart marks his honorary vice-presidentship by
the most characteristic Scottish landscape painter sending a characteristic picture to the show of his
of his period, or Milne Donald, or Graham Gilbert, young confreres. Mr. W. Y. MacGregor's little
is to be regretted; and it is a pity that the few landscape, one of his finest works, and Mr. Roche's
Scotsmen who have done anything in sculpture Study of a Girl's Head are also complete and
are completely ignored; but, on the whole, the rounded performances ; and Mr. Edwin Alexander
exhibition is fairly representative of the past of has a large and masterly water-colour of a Pca-
Scottish painting. hen and Chickens. Among other notable things
-- mention may be made of two landscapes by
One room has been devoted to Raeburn, and as Mr. Campbell Mitchell; of Mr. Robert Burns's
nearly forty of his pictures, including a considerable The Lute—the completest thing he has yet shown ;
proportion of his finest achievements, have been of Mr. Charles H. Mackie's The Japanese Picture
brought together, one has an admirable opportunity Book, and Mr. MacGeorge's A Day on the Shore.
of estimating the powers of this great painter. But The smaller space available this year necessitated
if Raeburn dominates the exhibition, he does not the abandonment of the usual loan collection, and
exhaust its interest. Three or four characteristic without its aid the weak points of the Society
Wilkies, fine portraits by Geddes and Watson were rather apparent J. L. C.
Gordon, several first-class
Phillips, and many typical
landscapes, among them
Castle Baan, perhaps the
loveliest picture painted,
by Thomson of Dudding-
ston ; two David Scotts of
rare quality, an exhaustive
representation of Sir W.
Fettes Douglas's remark-
able work in still life, genre,
and landscape, several
beautiful things by G. P.
Chalmers and some ex-
quisite landscapes by
Wintour and Alexander
Fraser; and a fair repre-
sentation of Duncan (the
two Prince Charlie pictures),
Harvey (Sheep-shearing and
others), Dyce, the Scott
Lauders, Sam Bough, and
Pettie sustain the interest
from first to last.
While the galleries on
the Mound may be said
to represent the past of
Scottish painting, the
Society of Scottish Artists'
exhibition, now open in
the French Gallery, Princes
Street, shows what is being
done by a section of the
younger men. Despite its embossed leather address cover , designed by h. g. fell
name, the Society is almost (See Bath Studio-Talk)
274