Studio: international art (41.1907)

Wilton Lockwood

AN AMERICAN
PORTRAIT-
PAINTER,
WILTON LOCK-
WOOD.

It was at the Champ
de Mars, in the spring of
1904, that the work of
Wilton Lockwood received
its first important notice
in the exhibition of six
characteristic examples.
These six paintings did
not fail of instant atten-
tion ; the power that was
behind them was unques-
tioned, but, as is inevitable

"a devonshire cottage" by grosvenor thomas . . , .. ,

with any decided venture
into untried fields, they

Scottish though it may be in its origin, is now received their natural quota of suspicion as to
modified into something which expresses a good their depth of sincerity. In the following year,
deal more than his belief in the creed of a however, we see him meet with unqualified suc-
particular group of artists. He looks at nature cess, observing that his misty enveloppe was not
with independent vision, with a desire to under- of an ephemeral and superficial nature, that it
stand her himself rather than with the wish to see was not a manner or a trick but that it had
in her only what others have already discovered, been evolved as a serious means of expression.
The strength of his art is that which comes from a That it served his purpose adequately, the critics
vigorous and masculine personality, but a personality were ready to concede and with the admission
of which the robustness is
at all times restrained by a
love of great aesthetic prin-
ciples and by more than
ordinary tenderness of
poetic feeling.

Mr. Grosvenor Thomas
can best be described as an
artist who hassoughtin many
directions the materials he
needed for his equipment
but who has succeeded in
combining these materials
so judiciously that he has
made with them something
that seems to be wholly
original and peculiar to
himself. Many other men
have had opportunities
quite as grea of acquiring
knowledge, but few have
been able to use them to
such advantage.

W. K. West. << cluden waters " by grosvenor thomas

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