DOI issue:
No. 128 (November, 1903)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0177
Studio- Talk
part of her art education in Paris. Miss Greene
shows promise of establishing a reputation for
portrait painting.
EDINBURGH.—This year's exhibition of
the Society of Scottish Artists is arranged
with the excellent taste which one has
come to associate with the society's
shows. The ensemble is admirable, the pictures
are not crowded on the walls, and the sculpture,
design for a jewel casket by ernest smith
(See London Studio- Talk)
And it is curious that these two—the
most distinctive pictures in the exhibi-
tion—are (with a Raphael Collin, which
does not represent him at his best)
almost the only high-pitched pictures
in it; a fact which suggests wonder
whether active artistic preference or pre-
judice, desire to escape the difficulty of
painting colour in full light, or a wish to
give unity of effect to the rooms, lies
at the bottom of the low tone which
dominates the exhibition as a whole.
Even the Manet from Mr. J. J. Cowan's
collection is low toned ; but it is a curious
design for an inkstand in cast silver by ernest smith
(See London Studio-Talk)
which includes an expressive and powerful figure
by M. Rodin and three pieces—one of them
the fine Image Fi?ider, by Mr. W. R. Colton—is
judiciously and decoratively placed. Loan pictures
are few, but amongst them is a most beautiful
McTaggart—a great expanse of blue summer sea,
spreading from a sandy beach, on which the calm
water laps gently in long-drawn pulsations, to a
wonderfully painted horizon, on which Ailsa Craig
seems to float, and the far-off Ayrshire coast is
partially veiled in an advancing shower, delicate as
gossamer—a picture which comb:nes realism,
poetry, and craftsmanship in rich measure, and
gives one that thrill of intense pleasure which
none but the finest art ever brings. Amongst
other works exhibited is Segantini's mountain
landscape, runishment of Luxury, which is ex-
ceedingly fine, at once true and beautiful, despite
the mannered ^ handling and the competition design for a clock case by ernest smith
of the allegorical figures in the foreground. (See London Studio-Talk)
160
part of her art education in Paris. Miss Greene
shows promise of establishing a reputation for
portrait painting.
EDINBURGH.—This year's exhibition of
the Society of Scottish Artists is arranged
with the excellent taste which one has
come to associate with the society's
shows. The ensemble is admirable, the pictures
are not crowded on the walls, and the sculpture,
design for a jewel casket by ernest smith
(See London Studio- Talk)
And it is curious that these two—the
most distinctive pictures in the exhibi-
tion—are (with a Raphael Collin, which
does not represent him at his best)
almost the only high-pitched pictures
in it; a fact which suggests wonder
whether active artistic preference or pre-
judice, desire to escape the difficulty of
painting colour in full light, or a wish to
give unity of effect to the rooms, lies
at the bottom of the low tone which
dominates the exhibition as a whole.
Even the Manet from Mr. J. J. Cowan's
collection is low toned ; but it is a curious
design for an inkstand in cast silver by ernest smith
(See London Studio-Talk)
which includes an expressive and powerful figure
by M. Rodin and three pieces—one of them
the fine Image Fi?ider, by Mr. W. R. Colton—is
judiciously and decoratively placed. Loan pictures
are few, but amongst them is a most beautiful
McTaggart—a great expanse of blue summer sea,
spreading from a sandy beach, on which the calm
water laps gently in long-drawn pulsations, to a
wonderfully painted horizon, on which Ailsa Craig
seems to float, and the far-off Ayrshire coast is
partially veiled in an advancing shower, delicate as
gossamer—a picture which comb:nes realism,
poetry, and craftsmanship in rich measure, and
gives one that thrill of intense pleasure which
none but the finest art ever brings. Amongst
other works exhibited is Segantini's mountain
landscape, runishment of Luxury, which is ex-
ceedingly fine, at once true and beautiful, despite
the mannered ^ handling and the competition design for a clock case by ernest smith
of the allegorical figures in the foreground. (See London Studio-Talk)
160