DOI issue:
Nr. 150 (September 1905)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20712#0350
Studio-Talk
prices now to be paid for material and labour,
it is quite certain that the owner, in the long
run, will find it more economical to follow the
example of former times, and insist upon his
cottages being substantially constructed than to
invest in the shoddily-built structures now so
commonly erected.
And when the question is viewed from the artistic
standpoint, how much more beautiful were the
simple, unpretentious old cottages than the majority
of the modern cheap and ornamental ones ! How
very much more part of the landscape they seemed,
actually enhancing its picturesque effect, and
making it more delightful to the eye of artist or
poet! View it as we may, there is nothing to
be gained by shoddyism, even when it is fathered
by an F.R.I.B.A.
The picture Across the River, reproduced on
page 331, is the work of Mr. W. Elmer Schofield.
The effect is a late afternoon in mid-winter; all
the foreground is in shadow, while the distant
shore is in a full glowing light. It has been
purchased by the Carnegie Institute for their
permanent collection. Mr. Schofield, who has
exhibited almost entirely in the United States,
has received honourable mention at the Salon.
In American exhibitions he has received many
awards—among them the Webb Landscape Prize,
Society of American Artists, New York—the first
Hallgarten Prize, National Academy Design, New
York, Sesnan Gold Medal for Landscape at the
Pennsylvania Academy, Fine Arts Medals at St.
Louis Exposition and Buffalo Exposition, and he
is represented in some public collections. Mr.
Schofield is an American. He studied in Paris
under MM. Aman-Jean, Doucet and Constant.
Polish landscape work is very rarely seen in our
exhibitions, and yet Poland is a land containing
many interesting and pleasant characteristics for
the artist. Perhaps just lately it has not been a
place which one would choose for any peaceful
pursuit, but Mr. R. P. Bevan, some reproductions
from whose water-colours we give here, visited the
country and brought home a sheaf of interesting
impressions. He made many effective studies
“ ploughing ”
332
BY R. P. BEVAN
prices now to be paid for material and labour,
it is quite certain that the owner, in the long
run, will find it more economical to follow the
example of former times, and insist upon his
cottages being substantially constructed than to
invest in the shoddily-built structures now so
commonly erected.
And when the question is viewed from the artistic
standpoint, how much more beautiful were the
simple, unpretentious old cottages than the majority
of the modern cheap and ornamental ones ! How
very much more part of the landscape they seemed,
actually enhancing its picturesque effect, and
making it more delightful to the eye of artist or
poet! View it as we may, there is nothing to
be gained by shoddyism, even when it is fathered
by an F.R.I.B.A.
The picture Across the River, reproduced on
page 331, is the work of Mr. W. Elmer Schofield.
The effect is a late afternoon in mid-winter; all
the foreground is in shadow, while the distant
shore is in a full glowing light. It has been
purchased by the Carnegie Institute for their
permanent collection. Mr. Schofield, who has
exhibited almost entirely in the United States,
has received honourable mention at the Salon.
In American exhibitions he has received many
awards—among them the Webb Landscape Prize,
Society of American Artists, New York—the first
Hallgarten Prize, National Academy Design, New
York, Sesnan Gold Medal for Landscape at the
Pennsylvania Academy, Fine Arts Medals at St.
Louis Exposition and Buffalo Exposition, and he
is represented in some public collections. Mr.
Schofield is an American. He studied in Paris
under MM. Aman-Jean, Doucet and Constant.
Polish landscape work is very rarely seen in our
exhibitions, and yet Poland is a land containing
many interesting and pleasant characteristics for
the artist. Perhaps just lately it has not been a
place which one would choose for any peaceful
pursuit, but Mr. R. P. Bevan, some reproductions
from whose water-colours we give here, visited the
country and brought home a sheaf of interesting
impressions. He made many effective studies
“ ploughing ”
332
BY R. P. BEVAN