DOI Heft:
Nr. 167 (February 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20774#0085
Studio-Talk
PORTRAIT BY DAVID NEAVE
dykes, which were recently shown by Mr. A.
Romilly Fedden at the Fine Art Society, maintain
the high standard which that artist has attained in
his original manner of handling his medium. His
methods were shown to especial advantage in the
greyer subjects, or subjects depending upon sharply-
struck notes of colour here and there, and in evening
and moonlit pieces.
Childhood in art, as represented at the Baillie
Gallery, made one of the most attractive of last
month’s exhibitions. It was of a different character
to those exhibitions which from time to time have
been held elsewhere, consisting of paintings of
children. Here it was the children themselves
who were flattered by rooms devoted to pictures
and original drawings of illustrations, which have
had no other purpose than to give children pleasure.
There were, it is true, portraits and drawings of
children besides these excursions into the realm
of childhood fancy; but it was not these that
gave the exhibition its character. Humour and
beauty both had share in giving vitality to the
exhibition. Messrs. J. D. Batten, Graham Robert-
son, Cayley Robinson, Austen Brown, Miss Charlton
and Miss Brickdale, each held part of a large brief
for beauty; whilst among other artists Messrs.
Hassall and Leslie Brooks provided quaintness
and humour.
Both the medals for figure-painting at the
Royal Academy Schools were this year won
by women. Women were excluded from com-
petition for this prize until 1904. The Creswick
Landscape Prize also fell into feminine hands,
being awarded to Miss Marianne Henriette
Robilliard. This latter prize is to disappear from
the awards in 1907, and in future will, like the
Turner Prize and Travelling Scholarships, be
competed for biennially, its value being in-
creased. We have pleasure in giving a repro-
duction of an admirable drawing by Miss
A. J. Fry, which gained the silver medal for
the cartoon of a draped figure.
We also reproduce the design for a decora-
tion of a public building for which Mr. Caron
Oliver Lodge received the prize, and also that
by Mr. Birch which we understand received
the next number of votes. The subject set
was a passage in Ps. lxviii. :—“The singers.
ROYAL ACADEMY SCHOOL : SILVER
MEDAL CARTOON
63
BY MISS A. J. FRY
PORTRAIT BY DAVID NEAVE
dykes, which were recently shown by Mr. A.
Romilly Fedden at the Fine Art Society, maintain
the high standard which that artist has attained in
his original manner of handling his medium. His
methods were shown to especial advantage in the
greyer subjects, or subjects depending upon sharply-
struck notes of colour here and there, and in evening
and moonlit pieces.
Childhood in art, as represented at the Baillie
Gallery, made one of the most attractive of last
month’s exhibitions. It was of a different character
to those exhibitions which from time to time have
been held elsewhere, consisting of paintings of
children. Here it was the children themselves
who were flattered by rooms devoted to pictures
and original drawings of illustrations, which have
had no other purpose than to give children pleasure.
There were, it is true, portraits and drawings of
children besides these excursions into the realm
of childhood fancy; but it was not these that
gave the exhibition its character. Humour and
beauty both had share in giving vitality to the
exhibition. Messrs. J. D. Batten, Graham Robert-
son, Cayley Robinson, Austen Brown, Miss Charlton
and Miss Brickdale, each held part of a large brief
for beauty; whilst among other artists Messrs.
Hassall and Leslie Brooks provided quaintness
and humour.
Both the medals for figure-painting at the
Royal Academy Schools were this year won
by women. Women were excluded from com-
petition for this prize until 1904. The Creswick
Landscape Prize also fell into feminine hands,
being awarded to Miss Marianne Henriette
Robilliard. This latter prize is to disappear from
the awards in 1907, and in future will, like the
Turner Prize and Travelling Scholarships, be
competed for biennially, its value being in-
creased. We have pleasure in giving a repro-
duction of an admirable drawing by Miss
A. J. Fry, which gained the silver medal for
the cartoon of a draped figure.
We also reproduce the design for a decora-
tion of a public building for which Mr. Caron
Oliver Lodge received the prize, and also that
by Mr. Birch which we understand received
the next number of votes. The subject set
was a passage in Ps. lxviii. :—“The singers.
ROYAL ACADEMY SCHOOL : SILVER
MEDAL CARTOON
63
BY MISS A. J. FRY