DOI issue:
No. 134 (May, 1904)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0369
Studio- Talk
"l'abreuvoir" by harry van der weyden
colour. A high level of attainment has been reached same country, there is no sense of monotony about
by most conscientious work in the interesting pre- them, so varied are the artist's effects. Certainly
sentation portraits, by Mr. R. E. Morrison, of Canon he is free from the reproach of being the painter
Banks, Prof. Boyce, F.R.S., J. Hope Simpson, Esq., of a single hour or of a single aspect. On the con-
and C. Sharpies, Esq., J.P.; also in the portraits trary, Van der Weyden shows us in turn morning
of Mrs. J. B. Atherton and R. G. Gatehouse, Esq., effects on the sand-hills of the Pas de Calais or on
and others by the same busy brush. the picturesque ramparts of Montreuil; or village
streets seen under the gentle light of a summer
PARIS. — Harry van der Weyden is an night, or the snow-bound city ; or, again, beautiful
American artist settled in France for some autumnal impressions or riverside scenes or sea-
years now, yet rarely seen in the Salons. pieces. Moreover, his figures are full of character;
He lives a rather retired life in the little his Berger, his Paysanne avec son Enfant, and his
town of Montreuil-sur-Mer, where he produces freely, Laveuses are things to study—and remember,
in direct and ceaseless communion with nature. -
He has just opened an exhibition of work done during After having held its exhibition last year at
recent years, at the Galerie des Artistes Modernes. Durand-Ruel's, the Societe Nouvelle is back again
The recollections one carries away therefrom at Georges Petit's. This display in its general air
are extremely pleasing, and the spectator receives and harmony, as in the note of personality marking
the impression that Van der Weyden is one of the each work therein, is indeed one of the best, if not
most personal of the American artists living on the quite the best, ever given by this group. Without
Continent. - desiring to establish comparisons between the divers
Although the greater part of these landscapes— artists—many of them the very flower of the con-
a few views of Holland apart—were painted in the temporary French school—we must at once put
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"l'abreuvoir" by harry van der weyden
colour. A high level of attainment has been reached same country, there is no sense of monotony about
by most conscientious work in the interesting pre- them, so varied are the artist's effects. Certainly
sentation portraits, by Mr. R. E. Morrison, of Canon he is free from the reproach of being the painter
Banks, Prof. Boyce, F.R.S., J. Hope Simpson, Esq., of a single hour or of a single aspect. On the con-
and C. Sharpies, Esq., J.P.; also in the portraits trary, Van der Weyden shows us in turn morning
of Mrs. J. B. Atherton and R. G. Gatehouse, Esq., effects on the sand-hills of the Pas de Calais or on
and others by the same busy brush. the picturesque ramparts of Montreuil; or village
streets seen under the gentle light of a summer
PARIS. — Harry van der Weyden is an night, or the snow-bound city ; or, again, beautiful
American artist settled in France for some autumnal impressions or riverside scenes or sea-
years now, yet rarely seen in the Salons. pieces. Moreover, his figures are full of character;
He lives a rather retired life in the little his Berger, his Paysanne avec son Enfant, and his
town of Montreuil-sur-Mer, where he produces freely, Laveuses are things to study—and remember,
in direct and ceaseless communion with nature. -
He has just opened an exhibition of work done during After having held its exhibition last year at
recent years, at the Galerie des Artistes Modernes. Durand-Ruel's, the Societe Nouvelle is back again
The recollections one carries away therefrom at Georges Petit's. This display in its general air
are extremely pleasing, and the spectator receives and harmony, as in the note of personality marking
the impression that Van der Weyden is one of the each work therein, is indeed one of the best, if not
most personal of the American artists living on the quite the best, ever given by this group. Without
Continent. - desiring to establish comparisons between the divers
Although the greater part of these landscapes— artists—many of them the very flower of the con-
a few views of Holland apart—were painted in the temporary French school—we must at once put
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