DOI issue:
No. 166 (January, 1907)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0372
Studio-Talk
subjects of many of these
sketches, that she was fresh
from the influence of the
Parisian atelier. They were
of great variety: glimpses
of Paris and of old Edin-
burgh, of Breton villages,
and the curving shores of
Fife; several portraits of
children and a three-quarter
length of a comely Breton
lass. Garden subjects were
a feature of the collection,
and in several of these
much of the charm of
flowers in bloom was suc-
cessfully attained. In the
majority of these drawings
"shell fisher carts" by w. Cunningham hector the handling was slight,
oftensomewhat loose, butin
others there was evidence ot
together in Messrs. Watts' gallery. Seldom do his a searching after qualities onlytojbe attained through
pictures, whether subject or landscape, pass beyond long, patient, and ardent labour. W. D. M.
the decorative; and the faces and gestures of his
figures rarely express the story suggested by the f LASGOW.—Of various exhibitions held
title or, what is more important, bear the impress of § here during the closing months of the
deeply felt emotion as regards life. On the other W past year, one that attracted some
hand, the decorative quality of much of his work —*^ notice was held in the Institute
is definite and charming. Gifted with a refined Galleries by the Glasgow Society of Artists, the
sense of colour and having at command a technique youngest and only exclusive association of artists
which, if not powerful,
issues in admirable quality
of paint surface and tex-
ture, his excellently ordered
design, with its sense of
rhythmic line and grace-
fully disposed and propor-
tioned masses, is pleasing
to the eye and reposeful to
the senses. Moreover, his
work is marked by fine
taste and by a feeling for
style which give it some-
thing of classic simplicity
and a certain air of distinc-
tion. J. L. C.
The name of Miss A.
Dalyell, who last month
had an exhibition of water-
colours here, is new to the
Edinburgh art-world, and
one gathered, both from
the technique and the " near cartmel " by w. a. gibson
352
subjects of many of these
sketches, that she was fresh
from the influence of the
Parisian atelier. They were
of great variety: glimpses
of Paris and of old Edin-
burgh, of Breton villages,
and the curving shores of
Fife; several portraits of
children and a three-quarter
length of a comely Breton
lass. Garden subjects were
a feature of the collection,
and in several of these
much of the charm of
flowers in bloom was suc-
cessfully attained. In the
majority of these drawings
"shell fisher carts" by w. Cunningham hector the handling was slight,
oftensomewhat loose, butin
others there was evidence ot
together in Messrs. Watts' gallery. Seldom do his a searching after qualities onlytojbe attained through
pictures, whether subject or landscape, pass beyond long, patient, and ardent labour. W. D. M.
the decorative; and the faces and gestures of his
figures rarely express the story suggested by the f LASGOW.—Of various exhibitions held
title or, what is more important, bear the impress of § here during the closing months of the
deeply felt emotion as regards life. On the other W past year, one that attracted some
hand, the decorative quality of much of his work —*^ notice was held in the Institute
is definite and charming. Gifted with a refined Galleries by the Glasgow Society of Artists, the
sense of colour and having at command a technique youngest and only exclusive association of artists
which, if not powerful,
issues in admirable quality
of paint surface and tex-
ture, his excellently ordered
design, with its sense of
rhythmic line and grace-
fully disposed and propor-
tioned masses, is pleasing
to the eye and reposeful to
the senses. Moreover, his
work is marked by fine
taste and by a feeling for
style which give it some-
thing of classic simplicity
and a certain air of distinc-
tion. J. L. C.
The name of Miss A.
Dalyell, who last month
had an exhibition of water-
colours here, is new to the
Edinburgh art-world, and
one gathered, both from
the technique and the " near cartmel " by w. a. gibson
352