Studio: international art (39.1907)

IV. Dacres Adams

every artist sooner or later
becomes his own. Study-
ing first at the Birmingham
School of Art Mr. Dacres
Adams afterwards studied
for three years under
Professor Herkomer at
Bushey, finally taking a
studio in that place where
he painted his first suc-
cessful picture. After-
wards he spent six months
at the Munich Academy,
doing nothing but life-
sized charcoal drawings
from the nude, and was
much struck by the

strength and imagination "the village street" (water-colour) by w. d. adams

. L of the work he saw there, which he

admits has influenced him more or
Hi ' • . less ever since.

Mr. Dacres Adams' methods re-

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such a decorative subject as he has
treated in the picture here repro-
duced in colour, the artist seems to
have aimed less at a precisely deco-
rative definition of detail than at the
decorativeness of the effect as a
whole, gaining an effect of breadth
and naturalness, if at the expense
of the precious elaboration of detail,

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"the outcast" (oil painting) by w. d. adams teristic of this kind of work. A belief

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