DOI Heft:
No. 158 (May, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0389
Studio-Talk
was the appreciation and encourage-
ment he received after settling in
America which led him to throw him-
self more seriously into his work; and
that success has rewarded his devotion
to art is shown by the fact that his
works are now to be seen in nearly
every private gallery of importance in
America. This is all the more remark-
able seeing that this development has
taken place within the short space of
six or seven years.
While these pages are passing through
the press we learn with infinite horror
of the stupendous calamity that has
befallen this great city of the Far West,
to whose citizens we tender our pro-
found sympathy in their unparalleled
misfortune.
something Leonardesque in the enigmatic expres- 1 "PHILADELPHIA.—The painting by Mr.
sion of the eyes, and the subtle curves of the I_J Charles Morris Young, of which we
mouth. So, too, his portraits of the novelist Josef give a reproduction, may be taken as a
Weissenhof, of the Polish actress Fedorowicz, etc., * fairly characteristic example of his work
show his sincere and patient search for the true in landscape. When some two or three years ago
psychological interpretation of his models. His he held an exhibition of his pictures in conjunction
very qualities, viz., simplicity and disdain of effect, with Mr. A. Stirling Calder, the sculptor, an
make him understood with more difficulty by opportunity was afforded of gauging his ability as
the general public than a more conventional and a painter. The works he gathered together on
superficial painter. E. P. C. that occasion numbered as many as sixty canvases
—all landscapes—and ten water-colours; and
SAN FRANCISCO. — Mr. Francis although it may be questioned whether it is the
McComas, of whose work in water-colour number or the character of a man's works that gives
we reproduce some examples,
is an Australian who, while
still a youth, packed up his belongings,
including a scora or so of pictures, and
came to settle in this city. He started
his art career as an illuminator with
the firm of John Sands, of Sydney, but,
becoming dissatisfied with this some-
what restricted field, took to sketching
from nature, his favourite sketching-
ground being Double Bay gully and the
now vanished Bondi Lagoons.
In his earlier works, done in Australia,
the drawing, it must be confessed, was
a somewhat neglected feature, but by
degrees his art assumed the qualities
which come with mature development,
his method ceasing to have that sketchi-
ness "which marked his earlier work. It "old oaks at monterf.y, California" hy francis mccomas
369
was the appreciation and encourage-
ment he received after settling in
America which led him to throw him-
self more seriously into his work; and
that success has rewarded his devotion
to art is shown by the fact that his
works are now to be seen in nearly
every private gallery of importance in
America. This is all the more remark-
able seeing that this development has
taken place within the short space of
six or seven years.
While these pages are passing through
the press we learn with infinite horror
of the stupendous calamity that has
befallen this great city of the Far West,
to whose citizens we tender our pro-
found sympathy in their unparalleled
misfortune.
something Leonardesque in the enigmatic expres- 1 "PHILADELPHIA.—The painting by Mr.
sion of the eyes, and the subtle curves of the I_J Charles Morris Young, of which we
mouth. So, too, his portraits of the novelist Josef give a reproduction, may be taken as a
Weissenhof, of the Polish actress Fedorowicz, etc., * fairly characteristic example of his work
show his sincere and patient search for the true in landscape. When some two or three years ago
psychological interpretation of his models. His he held an exhibition of his pictures in conjunction
very qualities, viz., simplicity and disdain of effect, with Mr. A. Stirling Calder, the sculptor, an
make him understood with more difficulty by opportunity was afforded of gauging his ability as
the general public than a more conventional and a painter. The works he gathered together on
superficial painter. E. P. C. that occasion numbered as many as sixty canvases
—all landscapes—and ten water-colours; and
SAN FRANCISCO. — Mr. Francis although it may be questioned whether it is the
McComas, of whose work in water-colour number or the character of a man's works that gives
we reproduce some examples,
is an Australian who, while
still a youth, packed up his belongings,
including a scora or so of pictures, and
came to settle in this city. He started
his art career as an illuminator with
the firm of John Sands, of Sydney, but,
becoming dissatisfied with this some-
what restricted field, took to sketching
from nature, his favourite sketching-
ground being Double Bay gully and the
now vanished Bondi Lagoons.
In his earlier works, done in Australia,
the drawing, it must be confessed, was
a somewhat neglected feature, but by
degrees his art assumed the qualities
which come with mature development,
his method ceasing to have that sketchi-
ness "which marked his earlier work. It "old oaks at monterf.y, California" hy francis mccomas
369