DOI Heft:
Nr. 117 (December 1902)
DOI Artikel:Jenkins, Will: A Canadian artist in the Azores: H. Sandham, R. C. A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0186
A Canadian Artist in the Azores
oriental in splendour of colouring. The town understood, and painted with as tender sym-
approached from the sea is like a fairyland. pathy as he did the lives of his own French
Dazzling groups of white-walled buildings, iri- peasants. These people, self-centred children
descent with pearl-like tints of pink, green, and of nature, so simple and devout, have yet
greys; broken lines of roof covered with tiles the racial qualities of power that only the
of various colours; here and there masses of primitive possess. Here the mystery of tradition
brilliant green foliage, the whole thrown into strong and fervent religious faith is perfectly mingled
relief by the background of dark, dome-shaped with the other great mystery of romantic nature in
hills, it seems an enchanted city of the sea. all its tragic intensity and beauty. Of racial types
Of the kindness of the Azorean people for the there is a curious blending of West and East,
stranger and their solicitude for his comfort and There is no end of charming variety of landscape:
pleasure, one cannot say enough. The village lakes, mountains, caves, waterfalls, dome-shaped
life is religious, whole-souled, passionate, and hills covered with luxuriant verdure to their very
withal intensely picturesque. Children of the tops, and fields of flowers running riot with the whole
soil, with little knowledge and few of the vices gamut of sensuous colour. The remarkable variety
of the outside world, their primitive, simple life of trees and shrubbery suggest that every growth
is of the kind that Millet would have loved, to be found in tropics or temperate zones finds
fertile ground in this equable
atmosphere.
Around the dark rock bed of
the coast the precipitous cliffs
sometimes drop sheer to depths
of water going down thousands
of feet. Some of these towering
black volcanic groups cutting the
tropical sea into myriads of spark-
ling, multi-hued gems, in their
towering sombre outlines, seem
brooding a spirit of deepest
melancholy.
The agricultural parts of the
island are dotted with white-
walled cottages, thatched or tiled
in brilliant colours, while here
and there a stone windmill adds
inte'est to the already paintable
subjects.
The town of Ponta Delgada
is of particular artistic interest
in both architecture and people.
Mr. Sandham shows the charm-
ing variety of their costumes in
the typical group on the steps
of the Matriz Tabernacle. With
quaint garments blazing with rich
colours, these people seem to
dress in perfect artistic accord
with the splendour of their
tropical surroundings.
The Matriz is the largest
church in the island. The south
door was presented by King
John of Portugal, skilled arti-
STEPS BY THE OLD FISH MARKET FROM THE; WATER-COLOUR Construct it,
PONTA DELGADA BY H. SANDHAM 6 '
174
oriental in splendour of colouring. The town understood, and painted with as tender sym-
approached from the sea is like a fairyland. pathy as he did the lives of his own French
Dazzling groups of white-walled buildings, iri- peasants. These people, self-centred children
descent with pearl-like tints of pink, green, and of nature, so simple and devout, have yet
greys; broken lines of roof covered with tiles the racial qualities of power that only the
of various colours; here and there masses of primitive possess. Here the mystery of tradition
brilliant green foliage, the whole thrown into strong and fervent religious faith is perfectly mingled
relief by the background of dark, dome-shaped with the other great mystery of romantic nature in
hills, it seems an enchanted city of the sea. all its tragic intensity and beauty. Of racial types
Of the kindness of the Azorean people for the there is a curious blending of West and East,
stranger and their solicitude for his comfort and There is no end of charming variety of landscape:
pleasure, one cannot say enough. The village lakes, mountains, caves, waterfalls, dome-shaped
life is religious, whole-souled, passionate, and hills covered with luxuriant verdure to their very
withal intensely picturesque. Children of the tops, and fields of flowers running riot with the whole
soil, with little knowledge and few of the vices gamut of sensuous colour. The remarkable variety
of the outside world, their primitive, simple life of trees and shrubbery suggest that every growth
is of the kind that Millet would have loved, to be found in tropics or temperate zones finds
fertile ground in this equable
atmosphere.
Around the dark rock bed of
the coast the precipitous cliffs
sometimes drop sheer to depths
of water going down thousands
of feet. Some of these towering
black volcanic groups cutting the
tropical sea into myriads of spark-
ling, multi-hued gems, in their
towering sombre outlines, seem
brooding a spirit of deepest
melancholy.
The agricultural parts of the
island are dotted with white-
walled cottages, thatched or tiled
in brilliant colours, while here
and there a stone windmill adds
inte'est to the already paintable
subjects.
The town of Ponta Delgada
is of particular artistic interest
in both architecture and people.
Mr. Sandham shows the charm-
ing variety of their costumes in
the typical group on the steps
of the Matriz Tabernacle. With
quaint garments blazing with rich
colours, these people seem to
dress in perfect artistic accord
with the splendour of their
tropical surroundings.
The Matriz is the largest
church in the island. The south
door was presented by King
John of Portugal, skilled arti-
STEPS BY THE OLD FISH MARKET FROM THE; WATER-COLOUR Construct it,
PONTA DELGADA BY H. SANDHAM 6 '
174