DOI Heft:
No. 173 (August, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Robert W. Little, R.W.S.: a review of his work
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0204
Robert IV. Little, R.W.S.
long grass where he would see nothing but the blue Greenock, had. some lessons in water-colour paint-
sky overhead. ing and by sketching out-of-doors he sought to put
Between thirteen and sixteen he added greatly to to a practical test what knowledge he had acquired
his store of impressions, for he passed most of his of the mechanism of art. But, beyond these ten-
time during these three years on the Gareloch, tative essays, he did little in the way of regular
among rugged and romantic scenery, which fasci- study until, in his sixteenth year, he went to Edin-
nated him by its grandeur. In this land of gorge- burgh and in the intervals of his ordinary school
ous sunsets and wonderful effects of atmosphere he work attended the evening classes at the school of
found much to stimulate his imagination, much art on the Mound. Then came an interval during
that helped to develop his sense of colour and his which he had very limited opportunities of satisfy-
understanding of qualities of tone; but he found ing his artistic inclinations ; after a winter at the
also a vast number of suggestions as to the way in Glasgow University he went into his father's office
which what may be called the design of landscape with the idea of following a business career—in a
should be treated. He began to realise in this shipping concern which had been founded by his
district, with its lofty hills and large expanses of grandfather..
distance, the necessity for right pictorial construe- However, he quickly discovered that he had not
tion in the representation of nature's beauties ; and the temperament needed for the business life, and
he was shown by a wealth of significant examples that he was wasting his energies in a wholly un-
how much the romantic sentiment of an impressive congenial occupation. So, at the age of twenty-two
scene depends upon the right relation of the forms he made up his mind to abandon the office—after
and masses by which the landscape is built up. much anxious consideration—and to take what
It was at this period, too, that he began to feel chances the future might bring him in the artistic
the desire for production, the wish not merely to profession. The first necessary step was to go
observe but also to record the results of his obser- through that systematic training in technical prac-
vations. He had already, while at school at tice which he had not been able to obtain in his
" MASSA-CARRARA : SUNSHINE IN WINTER " BY ROBERT W. LITTLE
174
long grass where he would see nothing but the blue Greenock, had. some lessons in water-colour paint-
sky overhead. ing and by sketching out-of-doors he sought to put
Between thirteen and sixteen he added greatly to to a practical test what knowledge he had acquired
his store of impressions, for he passed most of his of the mechanism of art. But, beyond these ten-
time during these three years on the Gareloch, tative essays, he did little in the way of regular
among rugged and romantic scenery, which fasci- study until, in his sixteenth year, he went to Edin-
nated him by its grandeur. In this land of gorge- burgh and in the intervals of his ordinary school
ous sunsets and wonderful effects of atmosphere he work attended the evening classes at the school of
found much to stimulate his imagination, much art on the Mound. Then came an interval during
that helped to develop his sense of colour and his which he had very limited opportunities of satisfy-
understanding of qualities of tone; but he found ing his artistic inclinations ; after a winter at the
also a vast number of suggestions as to the way in Glasgow University he went into his father's office
which what may be called the design of landscape with the idea of following a business career—in a
should be treated. He began to realise in this shipping concern which had been founded by his
district, with its lofty hills and large expanses of grandfather..
distance, the necessity for right pictorial construe- However, he quickly discovered that he had not
tion in the representation of nature's beauties ; and the temperament needed for the business life, and
he was shown by a wealth of significant examples that he was wasting his energies in a wholly un-
how much the romantic sentiment of an impressive congenial occupation. So, at the age of twenty-two
scene depends upon the right relation of the forms he made up his mind to abandon the office—after
and masses by which the landscape is built up. much anxious consideration—and to take what
It was at this period, too, that he began to feel chances the future might bring him in the artistic
the desire for production, the wish not merely to profession. The first necessary step was to go
observe but also to record the results of his obser- through that systematic training in technical prac-
vations. He had already, while at school at tice which he had not been able to obtain in his
" MASSA-CARRARA : SUNSHINE IN WINTER " BY ROBERT W. LITTLE
174