DOI Heft:
No. 111 (June, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Some paintings and sculpture at the London spring exhibitions
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19876#0038
London Spring Exhibitions
Boughton, and a few of the coming men like Mr. immediate attention look distressingly common-
Arnesby Brown, Mr. J. H. Bacon, and Mr. Charles place and uninteresting. It is a long time since
Sims, the art lover would find his visits to the there has been at Burlington House an exhibition
shows singularly unprofitable. These painters which, by mere errors in hanging, gives such exces-
provide the high lights of a rather subdued sive prominence to bad work, and suppresses so
pictorial scheme, a few others introduce some not effectually the occasional illustrations of sound
unpleasant half-tones, but the background is sadly capacity which do credit to our native art. The
gloomy and monotonous. men who make successes there this year do so in
The New Gallery, perhaps, has the most accept- spite of disadvantages to which they ought never
able collection of mixed works of art which is at to have been exposed.
present to be seen in London. The average there It is, as is usual now, Mr. Sargent who stands
is fairly high, and the representation of various out as the dominant personality in both galleries,
schools is reasonably complete and well balanced. His large groups of The Misses Hunter and The
The Academy, on the other hand, is a very Ladies Alexandra, Mary, and Theo Acheson, and
moderate show, and is so badly arranged that it his portraits of Lotd Ribblcsdale and Alfred Wer-
seems worse than it really is. It includes a pass- theimer, Esq., at the Academy, and his group of
able number of good things, but many of these, by The Children of A. Wertheimer, Esq. and the
a strange want of judgment on the part of the remarkable open-air study of a boy lying on a rock
hanging committee, have been placed in positions beside a mountain torrent, On his Holiday—
which suit them not at all; and, as a consequence, Norway, at the New Gallery, make an all-round
pictures which with proper surroundings would arrest assertion of his wonderful abilities that is really
'morning sunshine''
by alfred east, a.r.a.
Boughton, and a few of the coming men like Mr. immediate attention look distressingly common-
Arnesby Brown, Mr. J. H. Bacon, and Mr. Charles place and uninteresting. It is a long time since
Sims, the art lover would find his visits to the there has been at Burlington House an exhibition
shows singularly unprofitable. These painters which, by mere errors in hanging, gives such exces-
provide the high lights of a rather subdued sive prominence to bad work, and suppresses so
pictorial scheme, a few others introduce some not effectually the occasional illustrations of sound
unpleasant half-tones, but the background is sadly capacity which do credit to our native art. The
gloomy and monotonous. men who make successes there this year do so in
The New Gallery, perhaps, has the most accept- spite of disadvantages to which they ought never
able collection of mixed works of art which is at to have been exposed.
present to be seen in London. The average there It is, as is usual now, Mr. Sargent who stands
is fairly high, and the representation of various out as the dominant personality in both galleries,
schools is reasonably complete and well balanced. His large groups of The Misses Hunter and The
The Academy, on the other hand, is a very Ladies Alexandra, Mary, and Theo Acheson, and
moderate show, and is so badly arranged that it his portraits of Lotd Ribblcsdale and Alfred Wer-
seems worse than it really is. It includes a pass- theimer, Esq., at the Academy, and his group of
able number of good things, but many of these, by The Children of A. Wertheimer, Esq. and the
a strange want of judgment on the part of the remarkable open-air study of a boy lying on a rock
hanging committee, have been placed in positions beside a mountain torrent, On his Holiday—
which suit them not at all; and, as a consequence, Norway, at the New Gallery, make an all-round
pictures which with proper surroundings would arrest assertion of his wonderful abilities that is really
'morning sunshine''
by alfred east, a.r.a.