DOI Artikel:
Macfall, Haldane: Joseph Simpson: Caricaturist
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20712#0041
A Carica turist
will be wholly blotted out so long as man has a
spice of mischief left in his soul. Yet the danger
to the talents of a man like Joseph Simpson lies in
the very fact of his high artistry. There is in his
work an appearance of facility, of simplicity, that
gives the sense of an ease of accomplishment which
can only be dissipated by trying to do the thing
oneself. It will soon be found that this apparent
“ slickness ” and dash cover a knowledge of form
and of draughtsmanship that are responsible for
the remarkable sense of modelling in every line
and mass of the drawing. The black masses
MAX BEERBOHM BY JOSEPH SIMPSON
ON HIS OWN TOAST
indeed overlie this most careful draughtsmanship;
and some of these caricatures are the sixth or
seventh effort to realise the artist’s end. There is
in his work something of that dogged and intense
effort that was so characteristic of Phil May—I
have seen Phil May build up drawing after drawing
until he at last simplified and swung out those
marvellous telling lines that achieved sure success
and guided his hand’s craft to such high fulfilment.
Educated at the private school ot the Reverend
WHISTLER by JOSEPH SIMPSON
Alexander Davidson in Carlisle, Joseph Simpson
received what art training he had from the school
of art of that town under Mr. Herbert Lees.
Joseph Simpson’s journey towards the prizes
of the arts has so far been a pathetic wayfaring
along the stony road of hardship; but he has
G. B. S. BY JOSEPH SIMPSON
23
will be wholly blotted out so long as man has a
spice of mischief left in his soul. Yet the danger
to the talents of a man like Joseph Simpson lies in
the very fact of his high artistry. There is in his
work an appearance of facility, of simplicity, that
gives the sense of an ease of accomplishment which
can only be dissipated by trying to do the thing
oneself. It will soon be found that this apparent
“ slickness ” and dash cover a knowledge of form
and of draughtsmanship that are responsible for
the remarkable sense of modelling in every line
and mass of the drawing. The black masses
MAX BEERBOHM BY JOSEPH SIMPSON
ON HIS OWN TOAST
indeed overlie this most careful draughtsmanship;
and some of these caricatures are the sixth or
seventh effort to realise the artist’s end. There is
in his work something of that dogged and intense
effort that was so characteristic of Phil May—I
have seen Phil May build up drawing after drawing
until he at last simplified and swung out those
marvellous telling lines that achieved sure success
and guided his hand’s craft to such high fulfilment.
Educated at the private school ot the Reverend
WHISTLER by JOSEPH SIMPSON
Alexander Davidson in Carlisle, Joseph Simpson
received what art training he had from the school
of art of that town under Mr. Herbert Lees.
Joseph Simpson’s journey towards the prizes
of the arts has so far been a pathetic wayfaring
along the stony road of hardship; but he has
G. B. S. BY JOSEPH SIMPSON
23