DOI issue:
No. 110 (May, 1902)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0299
Studio- Talk
of its sincerity and soundness of method. The understanding of delicate subtleties, which is one
collection includes, perhaps, too much that is ten- of the chief virtues of his method, is delightfully
tative and immature, and too many things that are illustrated ; and in the drawings, some in line
merely imitative; but apart from these there is and some in wash, his technical strength and
much to occupy agreeably the visitor to the gallery. dexterity are wholly convincing. The show is a
-- small one, but within its limits it is thoroughly
Mr. Montague Smyth's landscapes in oil and complete. _
water-colours gathered together in Messrs. Dowdes-
well's gallery are fascinating as examples of the At the Clifford Gallery in the Haymarket Miss
accomplishment of an artist who has a certain Katharine L. Kimball recently exhibited a number
delicacy of feeling and charm of method. Mr. of excellent pen-and-ink drawings, two of which are
Smyth bases himself to some extent upon the nere illustrated. _
modern Dutch masters, like Maris or Mauve, but
u ■ __tu- • j. r i.t i The Orient-Pacific Steamship Line has recently
he is something more than a copyist of the men by 1 y
whose manner he is attracted. He does not issued a new P0Ster' deSlgned by Mr' Frank
surrender his own individuality or insist simply ^ngwyn, of which we give two illustrations, one
___■wn^„„ t„ ,„u u t u a *- i in colour and the other in black-and-white.
upon imitating touch by touch and tone by tone
the works of these painters ; he has studied them
intelligently, and though he paints under an I "i DINBURGH.—It is unfortunate that the
influence, he reserves to himself a great deal of I—H hanging and general arrangement of this
independence in his adaptation. The result is I year's Royal Scottish Academy are un-
undoubtedly pleasant. In his water - colours worthy of the Academy and of the dis-
especially, which are better than his oils, he tinct merit of the exhibition as a whole. No doubt
shows himseh to be a very able executant and the space available is quite inadequate for the
a sensitive colourist, with a sound understanding display of even the accepted works, while it pre-
of what is most memorable in Nature's tenderest vents the exhibitions becoming—what they indubit-
aspects.
Mr. D. Y. Cam-
eron is an artist
who is always
worth studying,
because he has
always something
fresh to say. The
most recent ex-
hibition of his
work — a collec-
tion of etchings
and drawings in
Mr. Gutekunst's
gallery — shows
how steadily he
is developing and
how his art is
gaining year by
year in largeness
of view and power
of accomplish-
ment. In the
etchings particu-
larly the combina-
tion of decision
and sensitive poster by frank brangwyn
284
of its sincerity and soundness of method. The understanding of delicate subtleties, which is one
collection includes, perhaps, too much that is ten- of the chief virtues of his method, is delightfully
tative and immature, and too many things that are illustrated ; and in the drawings, some in line
merely imitative; but apart from these there is and some in wash, his technical strength and
much to occupy agreeably the visitor to the gallery. dexterity are wholly convincing. The show is a
-- small one, but within its limits it is thoroughly
Mr. Montague Smyth's landscapes in oil and complete. _
water-colours gathered together in Messrs. Dowdes-
well's gallery are fascinating as examples of the At the Clifford Gallery in the Haymarket Miss
accomplishment of an artist who has a certain Katharine L. Kimball recently exhibited a number
delicacy of feeling and charm of method. Mr. of excellent pen-and-ink drawings, two of which are
Smyth bases himself to some extent upon the nere illustrated. _
modern Dutch masters, like Maris or Mauve, but
u ■ __tu- • j. r i.t i The Orient-Pacific Steamship Line has recently
he is something more than a copyist of the men by 1 y
whose manner he is attracted. He does not issued a new P0Ster' deSlgned by Mr' Frank
surrender his own individuality or insist simply ^ngwyn, of which we give two illustrations, one
___■wn^„„ t„ ,„u u t u a *- i in colour and the other in black-and-white.
upon imitating touch by touch and tone by tone
the works of these painters ; he has studied them
intelligently, and though he paints under an I "i DINBURGH.—It is unfortunate that the
influence, he reserves to himself a great deal of I—H hanging and general arrangement of this
independence in his adaptation. The result is I year's Royal Scottish Academy are un-
undoubtedly pleasant. In his water - colours worthy of the Academy and of the dis-
especially, which are better than his oils, he tinct merit of the exhibition as a whole. No doubt
shows himseh to be a very able executant and the space available is quite inadequate for the
a sensitive colourist, with a sound understanding display of even the accepted works, while it pre-
of what is most memorable in Nature's tenderest vents the exhibitions becoming—what they indubit-
aspects.
Mr. D. Y. Cam-
eron is an artist
who is always
worth studying,
because he has
always something
fresh to say. The
most recent ex-
hibition of his
work — a collec-
tion of etchings
and drawings in
Mr. Gutekunst's
gallery — shows
how steadily he
is developing and
how his art is
gaining year by
year in largeness
of view and power
of accomplish-
ment. In the
etchings particu-
larly the combina-
tion of decision
and sensitive poster by frank brangwyn
284