DOI Heft:
No. 128 (November, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Van der Veer, Lenore: The work of the late George Wilson
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0160
George Wilson
toned autumn foliage of the wilderness,
against which his white face stands out in
pathetic isolation. The artist has caught
the spirit of the poem, the spirit of
absolute, pitiless solitude. This picture
is one of the most perfectly finished
pieces of work from the artist's brush.
In A Spring Song the poet-artist is
seen at his happiest. A pastoral, with
the breath of the tenderest spring morn-
ing sweeping over it—spring in the air,
and spring in the youthful figures, pour-
ing out their simple melody ; and spring
in the daffodils, smiling up at them from
the green of the hillside. The Study of
an Oak Tree is an inimitable example
of Wilson's genius for drawing stems and
branches from nature, and a most delight-
ful bit of colour as well. In The Da?ice
—a study for the unfinished picture,
Arcadia—and in Summer and the Winds,
the artist is shown as altogether suc-
cessful in the fields of allegorical com-
position, and in giving perfect expression
to a sense of movement and of floating from the 'painting by george wilson
drapery. The Bacchante, included among (By permission or Dr. J. Todhunter)
the illustrations, is both strong in hand-
ling and rich in tone. It is the most masterly work, the truth is forced home to one that much
piece of modelling left by the artist. of the world's best work is done by just such quiet,
In summing up the little exhibition of Wilson's unassuming natures as his.
study for "a spring song " (Bv~ Permission of Dr. /. Todhunter) by george wilson
143
toned autumn foliage of the wilderness,
against which his white face stands out in
pathetic isolation. The artist has caught
the spirit of the poem, the spirit of
absolute, pitiless solitude. This picture
is one of the most perfectly finished
pieces of work from the artist's brush.
In A Spring Song the poet-artist is
seen at his happiest. A pastoral, with
the breath of the tenderest spring morn-
ing sweeping over it—spring in the air,
and spring in the youthful figures, pour-
ing out their simple melody ; and spring
in the daffodils, smiling up at them from
the green of the hillside. The Study of
an Oak Tree is an inimitable example
of Wilson's genius for drawing stems and
branches from nature, and a most delight-
ful bit of colour as well. In The Da?ice
—a study for the unfinished picture,
Arcadia—and in Summer and the Winds,
the artist is shown as altogether suc-
cessful in the fields of allegorical com-
position, and in giving perfect expression
to a sense of movement and of floating from the 'painting by george wilson
drapery. The Bacchante, included among (By permission or Dr. J. Todhunter)
the illustrations, is both strong in hand-
ling and rich in tone. It is the most masterly work, the truth is forced home to one that much
piece of modelling left by the artist. of the world's best work is done by just such quiet,
In summing up the little exhibition of Wilson's unassuming natures as his.
study for "a spring song " (Bv~ Permission of Dr. /. Todhunter) by george wilson
143