Studio: international art (32.1904)

Joseph Crawhall

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sufficient to inspire a pic-

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" '^^Tfeje ~%. S .Mtitf with two chestnuts in

the ' wheel' and a white

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<l^,jgJsk-~ beautiful drawings is the

v-—? result."

Two qualities are not-
ably characteristic of
Crawhall's work, an intense

"~ ' * verge of' taciturn'ity, Craw-

" pigeons " by joseph craw hall hall goes through the world

New Faces," and last, not
least, " The Compleatest
Angling Booke," a volume
notable as containing,
in addition to some char-
acteristic illustrations by
the subject of this article,
a series of most humorous
pen-drawings by a young
artist not at that time so
much in evidence as now,
when he is known every-
where as Sir James
Guthrie, P.R.S.A.

Crawhall's finished work
is the result of impulse,
not the outcome of indus-
try. This means that he is
not the master of his
moods, and that his
moments of inspiration are
fleeting; and the friend
who knows his best work
speaks truly in saying that
with him "the desire for
artistic expression reveals
itself at the most unfore-
seen times in the most
untoward of places. A " the farmer's boy " by joseph crawhall

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