DOI issue:
No. 162 (September, 1906)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0370
Studio- Talk
Day of Rest 250); Interior of St. Madou, Rouen,
by James G. Laing, R.S.VV. (T52 10s.); Grouse,
by Edwin Alexander (,£35).
Alexander Roche returns again this autumn to
America, where he had a most successful session
last winter. The artist has already a number of
commissions to paint prominent Americans, but
before proceeding to the new world, he may have
sittings from one of the most notable public men
of the old. If the sittings can be arranged, the
portrait will attract some attention.
The residents of Kirkintilloch have recently
become familiar with quite a unique phenomenon—
a perambulating fish-cart decorated by a well-known
Glasgow artist. The body colour of the cart is
green, with wavy blue lines, suggestive of the sea;
the star-fish and the com-
mon domestic fish, with
head set in nimbus ; the
name' of the vendor; and
here and there a detached
hawthorn blossom (for it
was designed in the month
of May), are all represented
in bold characters on white
panels. The artist had
many unfulfilled commis-
sions on hand when he
painted it, but they were
all neglected on account of
this, for when he was ill the
simple-minded fisherman
would leave his daily round
to cast the cunning fly for
a dainty fish for the sick
limner. The panels of
that fish-cart may yet be-
come as noted as the sign-
boards painted by famous
artists. J. T.
Markinch,
N. B. — Pic-
torial photo-
graphy finds
an admirable exponent in
Mr. P. G. Terras, two of
whose portrait-subjects we
reproduce this month.
Mr. Terras is devoting
himself largely to this class
of work, which, as our
reproductions show, he has succeeded in investing
with a distinctly artistic character. Here, as in
all the best modern work in this direction, the pic-
torial quality of the picture is greatly enhanced by
simplicity of treatment. It is indeed interesting to
observe on the part of photographers who make
figure-subjects a speciality, an increasing recognition
of the truth that the best results from an artistic
point of view are those obtained without resorting
to the artifices and contrivances which used to be
thought essential to the making of a good picture.
PARIS. — Henri Kautsch, a sculptor of
whom we have on sundry occasions
spoken in the pages of The Studio, has
recently executed a number of works in
which the diversity of his talent is once more made
manifest. In the plaquette for an Automobile
“ THE SCHOOL GIKL ” BV P. G. TERRAS
349
Day of Rest 250); Interior of St. Madou, Rouen,
by James G. Laing, R.S.VV. (T52 10s.); Grouse,
by Edwin Alexander (,£35).
Alexander Roche returns again this autumn to
America, where he had a most successful session
last winter. The artist has already a number of
commissions to paint prominent Americans, but
before proceeding to the new world, he may have
sittings from one of the most notable public men
of the old. If the sittings can be arranged, the
portrait will attract some attention.
The residents of Kirkintilloch have recently
become familiar with quite a unique phenomenon—
a perambulating fish-cart decorated by a well-known
Glasgow artist. The body colour of the cart is
green, with wavy blue lines, suggestive of the sea;
the star-fish and the com-
mon domestic fish, with
head set in nimbus ; the
name' of the vendor; and
here and there a detached
hawthorn blossom (for it
was designed in the month
of May), are all represented
in bold characters on white
panels. The artist had
many unfulfilled commis-
sions on hand when he
painted it, but they were
all neglected on account of
this, for when he was ill the
simple-minded fisherman
would leave his daily round
to cast the cunning fly for
a dainty fish for the sick
limner. The panels of
that fish-cart may yet be-
come as noted as the sign-
boards painted by famous
artists. J. T.
Markinch,
N. B. — Pic-
torial photo-
graphy finds
an admirable exponent in
Mr. P. G. Terras, two of
whose portrait-subjects we
reproduce this month.
Mr. Terras is devoting
himself largely to this class
of work, which, as our
reproductions show, he has succeeded in investing
with a distinctly artistic character. Here, as in
all the best modern work in this direction, the pic-
torial quality of the picture is greatly enhanced by
simplicity of treatment. It is indeed interesting to
observe on the part of photographers who make
figure-subjects a speciality, an increasing recognition
of the truth that the best results from an artistic
point of view are those obtained without resorting
to the artifices and contrivances which used to be
thought essential to the making of a good picture.
PARIS. — Henri Kautsch, a sculptor of
whom we have on sundry occasions
spoken in the pages of The Studio, has
recently executed a number of works in
which the diversity of his talent is once more made
manifest. In the plaquette for an Automobile
“ THE SCHOOL GIKL ” BV P. G. TERRAS
349