DOI Heft:
Nr. 116 (November 1902)
DOI Artikel:Little, James Stanley: A cosmopolitan painter: John Lavery, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0131
John Lavery
than the finished work from the artistic, though representation of Glasgow Fair in the Fourteenth or
obviously not from the narrative or historical, point Fifteenth century. Mr. Lavery has~chosen to deal
of view. It is worthy of note that Mr. Lavery with Glasgow of to-day. His panel is to be
suggested to the Corporation the acceptance of decorated with a picture illustrative of modern
this sketch, to- ship-building—
gether with the the building of an
portrait-sketches HH ironclad. The
of the various picture is cut into
more or less three sections by
notable persons the pilastres.
immortalised in Still dealing
the finished pic- with modern Glas-
ture. But the gow, the lunette
worthy baillies of above the panel
not ^^^^H^'^^fl^fl^^^^B carries figures alle-
rise to this height; gorical of Paint-
it requires a full- ing, Architecture,
sized man, artis- and Sculpture
tically, to appre- respectively. The
ciate the value of colour scheme is
Mr. Lavery's offer blue, heliotrope,
and the unwisdom and pink. The
of its rejection. HHf/ ft * pink funnel of the
Glasgow has per- vessel is carried
haps made the on in the general
amende honorable design by the
in putting into the rose-coloured
hands of John - . drapery of the
Lavery, in asso- ' :^f-^-'.% female figure
ciation with three standing for Ar-
other distin- chitecture; and
guished Glasgow the artistic har-
painters, George mony is preserved
Henry, Alexr. and balanced in
Roche, and E. A. the other figures.
Walton, the com- infetaftfe iJhMggBW Mr. Lavery can-
mission to deco- 1 v"" fi >' not be held to
rate pictorially the Wm VHI have chosen his
Banqueting Hall own day and gene-
of the Municipal - ration for inter-
Buildings in that pretation unde-
city. Mr. George signedly. He
Henry has exe- holds that as the
cuted the large big hoops of Ve-
lunette over the "her first communion" by john lavery lasquez's time,
platform, his sub- and the Jews
ject being Grant- of Rembrandt's
ing the Charter to Glasgow. Mr. Alexander Amsterdam were good enough for those great
Roche is responsible for the first of the three side masters respectively as pegs upon which to hang
panels, and has chosen as his theme the legend their art; so the active life of to-day is not to be
of St. Mungo, The Finding of the Ring, which despised by the artists of to-day, who ought not
forms the basis of Glasgow's heraldic insignia, to forget that the province of the artist, or at all
To Mr. E. A. Walton has fallen the second of events one of his great provinces, is " to deal with
these panels, which he has filled with a pictorial things around him and treat them in the terms of
than the finished work from the artistic, though representation of Glasgow Fair in the Fourteenth or
obviously not from the narrative or historical, point Fifteenth century. Mr. Lavery has~chosen to deal
of view. It is worthy of note that Mr. Lavery with Glasgow of to-day. His panel is to be
suggested to the Corporation the acceptance of decorated with a picture illustrative of modern
this sketch, to- ship-building—
gether with the the building of an
portrait-sketches HH ironclad. The
of the various picture is cut into
more or less three sections by
notable persons the pilastres.
immortalised in Still dealing
the finished pic- with modern Glas-
ture. But the gow, the lunette
worthy baillies of above the panel
not ^^^^H^'^^fl^fl^^^^B carries figures alle-
rise to this height; gorical of Paint-
it requires a full- ing, Architecture,
sized man, artis- and Sculpture
tically, to appre- respectively. The
ciate the value of colour scheme is
Mr. Lavery's offer blue, heliotrope,
and the unwisdom and pink. The
of its rejection. HHf/ ft * pink funnel of the
Glasgow has per- vessel is carried
haps made the on in the general
amende honorable design by the
in putting into the rose-coloured
hands of John - . drapery of the
Lavery, in asso- ' :^f-^-'.% female figure
ciation with three standing for Ar-
other distin- chitecture; and
guished Glasgow the artistic har-
painters, George mony is preserved
Henry, Alexr. and balanced in
Roche, and E. A. the other figures.
Walton, the com- infetaftfe iJhMggBW Mr. Lavery can-
mission to deco- 1 v"" fi >' not be held to
rate pictorially the Wm VHI have chosen his
Banqueting Hall own day and gene-
of the Municipal - ration for inter-
Buildings in that pretation unde-
city. Mr. George signedly. He
Henry has exe- holds that as the
cuted the large big hoops of Ve-
lunette over the "her first communion" by john lavery lasquez's time,
platform, his sub- and the Jews
ject being Grant- of Rembrandt's
ing the Charter to Glasgow. Mr. Alexander Amsterdam were good enough for those great
Roche is responsible for the first of the three side masters respectively as pegs upon which to hang
panels, and has chosen as his theme the legend their art; so the active life of to-day is not to be
of St. Mungo, The Finding of the Ring, which despised by the artists of to-day, who ought not
forms the basis of Glasgow's heraldic insignia, to forget that the province of the artist, or at all
To Mr. E. A. Walton has fallen the second of events one of his great provinces, is " to deal with
these panels, which he has filled with a pictorial things around him and treat them in the terms of