DOI Heft:
No. 162 (September, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0368
Studio-Talk
it will be realised what a high standard the collector
reached. We understand that Mr. Young, in dis-
posing of his pictures, made a stipulation that
facilities should be offered for certain of the
pictures to be acquired by the nation, but it is
very doubtful if the authorities will be in a posi-
tion to take advantage of this golden opportunity
to fill up some deplorable gaps in our national
collection.
GLASGOW.—In this year’s Paris Salon
there hung on the line in the grand hall
a picture called A Song of Summer,
which by its brightness alone would
be conspicuous even in a French gallery. The
subject is a merry group of children on a country
road, bearing on a great red sheet branches of
snow-white hawthorn blossom. The grouping and
the action of the children, the skilful handling of
the colours, the shadows of the trees thrown across
the road, and the out-of-door feeling of the whole
scene, are striking features in a clever picture; but
the evident intention of the artist is to suggest the
joyousness of life, and in this he has succeeded
admirably. Whatever impression such a picture may
have conveyed to the French mind, here it would
recall the country lane, the threshold of life, the
old associations, the exuberance, and the scent of
youth, and a whole train of retrospective musings.
William Pratt is a serious painter, who paints
with a purpose. His sympathies are not with the
Whistlerian method, which he considers a clever
decorative use and arrangement of colour; but
rather with the manner of Millet, and like the great
French painter, he loves to take his subject from
the work-a-day interests and incidents of the
peasantry of his own country.
The sea, too, has great attractions for him, and
his observation of its phenomena has been long
and thorough; he has studied attentively every
phase and motion; every colour reflected from the
changing sky; the curl on the wave breaking in on
the shore; the depth of the shadow chased by the
white crested billow, and the tint of the crusted
foam, lying motionless by the beach. In this way
he has collected an abundance of memoranda and
study, which he has just put into a large picture
that justifies entirely his divided love.
The Purchase Committee of the Glasgow Cor-
poration have recommended the following purchases,
from the Institute Exhibition: P. Downie’s (R.S.W.)
347
it will be realised what a high standard the collector
reached. We understand that Mr. Young, in dis-
posing of his pictures, made a stipulation that
facilities should be offered for certain of the
pictures to be acquired by the nation, but it is
very doubtful if the authorities will be in a posi-
tion to take advantage of this golden opportunity
to fill up some deplorable gaps in our national
collection.
GLASGOW.—In this year’s Paris Salon
there hung on the line in the grand hall
a picture called A Song of Summer,
which by its brightness alone would
be conspicuous even in a French gallery. The
subject is a merry group of children on a country
road, bearing on a great red sheet branches of
snow-white hawthorn blossom. The grouping and
the action of the children, the skilful handling of
the colours, the shadows of the trees thrown across
the road, and the out-of-door feeling of the whole
scene, are striking features in a clever picture; but
the evident intention of the artist is to suggest the
joyousness of life, and in this he has succeeded
admirably. Whatever impression such a picture may
have conveyed to the French mind, here it would
recall the country lane, the threshold of life, the
old associations, the exuberance, and the scent of
youth, and a whole train of retrospective musings.
William Pratt is a serious painter, who paints
with a purpose. His sympathies are not with the
Whistlerian method, which he considers a clever
decorative use and arrangement of colour; but
rather with the manner of Millet, and like the great
French painter, he loves to take his subject from
the work-a-day interests and incidents of the
peasantry of his own country.
The sea, too, has great attractions for him, and
his observation of its phenomena has been long
and thorough; he has studied attentively every
phase and motion; every colour reflected from the
changing sky; the curl on the wave breaking in on
the shore; the depth of the shadow chased by the
white crested billow, and the tint of the crusted
foam, lying motionless by the beach. In this way
he has collected an abundance of memoranda and
study, which he has just put into a large picture
that justifies entirely his divided love.
The Purchase Committee of the Glasgow Cor-
poration have recommended the following purchases,
from the Institute Exhibition: P. Downie’s (R.S.W.)
347