DOI Heft:
No. 155 (February, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Halton, Ernest G.: Independent British art at Messrs. Agnew's
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0049
Independent British Art at Messrs. Agnew's
ar»d somewhat detracts from the charm of the repeated in the ball of wool on the window seat,
Picture. Mr. Sims is represented by a breezy little and on the Japanese fan. It is a successful attempt
Painting called By the Arran Sea, showing a to realise the mystery and beauty of the gloaming,
tady in a white dress and hat standing by a rendered even more elusive by the rising mists,
sea of the deepest blue which forms an effective The exhibition contains several fine examples
background. The painting and posing of this of landscape art, prominent amongst them being
figure are admirable, but the attitude of the little Prof. Fred. Brown's On the Wye. It is unquestion-
boy in the foreground rather gives the impression ably a fine achievement and one which cannot fail
°f a photographic snapshot. The broad and to enhance the reputation of the artist. In
vigorous brushwork is quite in sympathy with the some respects it is reminiscent of Cecil Lawson,
feeling of freshness and open air suggested in the but without the strong Barbizon influence which
picture. Mr. Robert Burns, whose work is not often showed itself in that artist's work. Prof,
often seen in London exhibitions, sends a good Brown's picture is entirely English in feeling and
picture, called At the Window, Moonrise. A character, and if only for that reason it would be
young lady is gazing out of a window on to a broad interesting. But besides this it reveals many rare
moonlit river. The colour scheme is effective— qualities. Poetic in sentiment and full of light
grey founded on variations of purple, green, and the scene vibrates with atmosphere. Another
gold; and the flesh tints and the reddish hair are excellent landscape is Mr. James Paterson's East
Lothian Village. The little
town drowses in the heat
of a summer sun which
steeps the ancient bridge,
the white-washed houses
and red-tiled roofs in warm
amber. Crowning all is
the village church, half in
shadow, standing clear
against a moving sky with
rifts of blue amongst the
clouds. Admirable in com-
position and general treat-
ment, this picture is charac-
teristic of the artist's best
work. Mr. E. A. Walton
also sends a good landscape.
Mr. Henry Tonk's har-
monious and attractive
picture, The Lost Path, has
much to interest the lover
of English landscape. The
figures in the foreground are
not only well drawn, but
they are also placed in the
picture with due considera-
tion for the balance of the
composition. But the chief
beauty of the work lies in
the landscape, evidently
painted in the neighbour-
hood of Poole Harbour,
which is seen beyond,
bathed in sunlight. The
,t,.v.*„ impression of distance is
a sketch for the ticture alexander jamieson v
" l'eglise st. vulfran, Abbeville " well conveyed, and the
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ar»d somewhat detracts from the charm of the repeated in the ball of wool on the window seat,
Picture. Mr. Sims is represented by a breezy little and on the Japanese fan. It is a successful attempt
Painting called By the Arran Sea, showing a to realise the mystery and beauty of the gloaming,
tady in a white dress and hat standing by a rendered even more elusive by the rising mists,
sea of the deepest blue which forms an effective The exhibition contains several fine examples
background. The painting and posing of this of landscape art, prominent amongst them being
figure are admirable, but the attitude of the little Prof. Fred. Brown's On the Wye. It is unquestion-
boy in the foreground rather gives the impression ably a fine achievement and one which cannot fail
°f a photographic snapshot. The broad and to enhance the reputation of the artist. In
vigorous brushwork is quite in sympathy with the some respects it is reminiscent of Cecil Lawson,
feeling of freshness and open air suggested in the but without the strong Barbizon influence which
picture. Mr. Robert Burns, whose work is not often showed itself in that artist's work. Prof,
often seen in London exhibitions, sends a good Brown's picture is entirely English in feeling and
picture, called At the Window, Moonrise. A character, and if only for that reason it would be
young lady is gazing out of a window on to a broad interesting. But besides this it reveals many rare
moonlit river. The colour scheme is effective— qualities. Poetic in sentiment and full of light
grey founded on variations of purple, green, and the scene vibrates with atmosphere. Another
gold; and the flesh tints and the reddish hair are excellent landscape is Mr. James Paterson's East
Lothian Village. The little
town drowses in the heat
of a summer sun which
steeps the ancient bridge,
the white-washed houses
and red-tiled roofs in warm
amber. Crowning all is
the village church, half in
shadow, standing clear
against a moving sky with
rifts of blue amongst the
clouds. Admirable in com-
position and general treat-
ment, this picture is charac-
teristic of the artist's best
work. Mr. E. A. Walton
also sends a good landscape.
Mr. Henry Tonk's har-
monious and attractive
picture, The Lost Path, has
much to interest the lover
of English landscape. The
figures in the foreground are
not only well drawn, but
they are also placed in the
picture with due considera-
tion for the balance of the
composition. But the chief
beauty of the work lies in
the landscape, evidently
painted in the neighbour-
hood of Poole Harbour,
which is seen beyond,
bathed in sunlight. The
,t,.v.*„ impression of distance is
a sketch for the ticture alexander jamieson v
" l'eglise st. vulfran, Abbeville " well conveyed, and the
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