DOI issue:
No. 152 (November, 1905)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20713#0189
Studio-Talk
full of delicate beauty and elusive charm. Their
evasive beauty cannot be put into words, for the
painter has that precious gift—an intuitive percep-
tion of effect. Mr. Wright is a book illustrator as
well as a painter. The illustrations for a book of
New Zealand fairy tales, published last year,
came from his hand.
From his pictures we have chosen a few for
reproduction in these pages. One of them,
Christmas - time, has a marvellously sunny out-
door feeling about it. It is a summer morning
after a storm, and the last of the clouds are
lifting from the distant ranges. The Mill
Valley was purchased under the terms of the
Boyd bequest for the Auckland Art Gallery
and is much admired for its fine cloud effects
and rich colouring in the greens; and Evening
depicts part of the wonderful bay, Okahumoko,
under a sky full of sunset
splendour. M. F. L.
her treatment ; while, as a rule, the work of
Mr. Cameron is rather more reserved and
“ toned.”
Marie Gelon-Cameron, in the admission of her
Salon picture, Mending the Net, to the Universal
Exposition at St. Louis, has scored simply one
more triumph in her artistic career. The painting
in question is one which had been produced under
the influence of the Julian school and then ex-
hibited at the Salon des Champs Elysees. Very
serious, intelligent work, it depicts, with wonderful
accuracy and feeling, the plodding side of a fisher-
maiden’s life. It tells its story in no theatrical
diction, but, on the contrary, quietly and truthfully.
In portraiture, Mrs. Cameron is especially success-
ful. Her strong convincing brush-work, combined
with a sympathetic understanding, seems to com-
municate to the canvas not only the reality of the
Chicago.—if
environment and
worthy produc-
tions may be ad-
judged as evidence of
nature’s intended vocation,
surely the life work of Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar S. Came-
ron, painters, has been
ideally chosen. The one
American and native of the
vicinity of Chicago, the
other French by birth and
tradition, each strikingly
individual as to application,
they display, notwithstand-
ing, a strong unity of pur-
pose in their avowed freedom
from mannerism. Both
work primarily for the de-
light in the work and for
the satisfaction of sur-
mounting new difficulties
in solving new problems.
Consequently they always
appropriate whatever ap-
peals to them with freshness,
spontaneity and vigour. In
general, Mrs. Cameron’s
tendency partakes of her
Latin heritage, warmth and
animation distinguishing
IN THE STUDIO
BY EDGAR S. CAMERON
171
full of delicate beauty and elusive charm. Their
evasive beauty cannot be put into words, for the
painter has that precious gift—an intuitive percep-
tion of effect. Mr. Wright is a book illustrator as
well as a painter. The illustrations for a book of
New Zealand fairy tales, published last year,
came from his hand.
From his pictures we have chosen a few for
reproduction in these pages. One of them,
Christmas - time, has a marvellously sunny out-
door feeling about it. It is a summer morning
after a storm, and the last of the clouds are
lifting from the distant ranges. The Mill
Valley was purchased under the terms of the
Boyd bequest for the Auckland Art Gallery
and is much admired for its fine cloud effects
and rich colouring in the greens; and Evening
depicts part of the wonderful bay, Okahumoko,
under a sky full of sunset
splendour. M. F. L.
her treatment ; while, as a rule, the work of
Mr. Cameron is rather more reserved and
“ toned.”
Marie Gelon-Cameron, in the admission of her
Salon picture, Mending the Net, to the Universal
Exposition at St. Louis, has scored simply one
more triumph in her artistic career. The painting
in question is one which had been produced under
the influence of the Julian school and then ex-
hibited at the Salon des Champs Elysees. Very
serious, intelligent work, it depicts, with wonderful
accuracy and feeling, the plodding side of a fisher-
maiden’s life. It tells its story in no theatrical
diction, but, on the contrary, quietly and truthfully.
In portraiture, Mrs. Cameron is especially success-
ful. Her strong convincing brush-work, combined
with a sympathetic understanding, seems to com-
municate to the canvas not only the reality of the
Chicago.—if
environment and
worthy produc-
tions may be ad-
judged as evidence of
nature’s intended vocation,
surely the life work of Mr.
and Mrs. Edgar S. Came-
ron, painters, has been
ideally chosen. The one
American and native of the
vicinity of Chicago, the
other French by birth and
tradition, each strikingly
individual as to application,
they display, notwithstand-
ing, a strong unity of pur-
pose in their avowed freedom
from mannerism. Both
work primarily for the de-
light in the work and for
the satisfaction of sur-
mounting new difficulties
in solving new problems.
Consequently they always
appropriate whatever ap-
peals to them with freshness,
spontaneity and vigour. In
general, Mrs. Cameron’s
tendency partakes of her
Latin heritage, warmth and
animation distinguishing
IN THE STUDIO
BY EDGAR S. CAMERON
171