DOI Heft:
No. 175 (October, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0085
Studio- Talk
that have been substituted for works sold during held in three of the galleries of the Royal
the summer show which are noteworthy. Murray Scottish Academy, well maintains the standard
Smith's little panel, Dutchmen—boats lying in a of any which has preceded, especially as regards
flat-shored estuary—is painted with well-chosen landscape, while the excellence of some of
variety of impasto. Mr. Elphinstone's Morning— the figure work redeems the paucity of quantity,
boats sailing swiftly under a light breeze across a and there are one or two portraits of average
silvery sea, is among the most striking works merit. Mason Hunter, who was this year
shown, and Mr. L. C. Powles has an excellent elected Chairman of the Council, has made
landscape in oils, painted with his accustomed a distinct step forward with a large sea-piece. For
good taste and feeling for quality. Miss Kemp- a number of years most of his work has lain in
Welch has a study of three cobs, which is up this direction associated more or less with inci-
to her reputation. Many of the landscapes seem dent. In his picture of 'Twixt Morven and Mull
needlessly large for their artistic motifs, no doubt a where the Tide Eddies Roar, he has not only
result of the fierce competition in galleries, where reached a finer harmony of greys, but the wave
small work, however good, is liable to be over- modelling conveys a fitting sense of the vastness
looked. In this respect Mr. A. Talmage's Under and power of the sea. Another of the young men,
Grey Skies must be said to err; otherwise it is a W. M. Frazer, has an important Highland land-
capable study of the silvery clouds of France float- scape, the largest he has yet exhibited, with an
ing over a typical landscape.
Mr. Frank Swinstead has some
good pastels of farmyard
subjects well carried through,
and Harding Smith's Lyme
Regis from the Charmouth
Road is an attractive water-
colour. A. H. R. T.
EDINBURGH.—It is
all in the interest of
art in Scotland that
there should exist in
Edinburgh a society composed
mainly of the younger men
in the profession whose main
object is to run an Exhibition
of their own, which, while not
antagonistic to the Academy,
yet naturally gives greater
scope to those who are outside
Academic rank. The Scottish
Artists' Society has justified its
existence in that it was largely
instrumental in leading to re-
form in the management of
Academy exhibitions, and it
may thus be said to have
accomplished one main pur-
pose of its founders. But its
continued prosperity shows the
need for and the public ap-
preciation of the Society.
The thirteenth Exhibition
of the Society, now being "gloire de dijon by robert hope
63
that have been substituted for works sold during held in three of the galleries of the Royal
the summer show which are noteworthy. Murray Scottish Academy, well maintains the standard
Smith's little panel, Dutchmen—boats lying in a of any which has preceded, especially as regards
flat-shored estuary—is painted with well-chosen landscape, while the excellence of some of
variety of impasto. Mr. Elphinstone's Morning— the figure work redeems the paucity of quantity,
boats sailing swiftly under a light breeze across a and there are one or two portraits of average
silvery sea, is among the most striking works merit. Mason Hunter, who was this year
shown, and Mr. L. C. Powles has an excellent elected Chairman of the Council, has made
landscape in oils, painted with his accustomed a distinct step forward with a large sea-piece. For
good taste and feeling for quality. Miss Kemp- a number of years most of his work has lain in
Welch has a study of three cobs, which is up this direction associated more or less with inci-
to her reputation. Many of the landscapes seem dent. In his picture of 'Twixt Morven and Mull
needlessly large for their artistic motifs, no doubt a where the Tide Eddies Roar, he has not only
result of the fierce competition in galleries, where reached a finer harmony of greys, but the wave
small work, however good, is liable to be over- modelling conveys a fitting sense of the vastness
looked. In this respect Mr. A. Talmage's Under and power of the sea. Another of the young men,
Grey Skies must be said to err; otherwise it is a W. M. Frazer, has an important Highland land-
capable study of the silvery clouds of France float- scape, the largest he has yet exhibited, with an
ing over a typical landscape.
Mr. Frank Swinstead has some
good pastels of farmyard
subjects well carried through,
and Harding Smith's Lyme
Regis from the Charmouth
Road is an attractive water-
colour. A. H. R. T.
EDINBURGH.—It is
all in the interest of
art in Scotland that
there should exist in
Edinburgh a society composed
mainly of the younger men
in the profession whose main
object is to run an Exhibition
of their own, which, while not
antagonistic to the Academy,
yet naturally gives greater
scope to those who are outside
Academic rank. The Scottish
Artists' Society has justified its
existence in that it was largely
instrumental in leading to re-
form in the management of
Academy exhibitions, and it
may thus be said to have
accomplished one main pur-
pose of its founders. But its
continued prosperity shows the
need for and the public ap-
preciation of the Society.
The thirteenth Exhibition
of the Society, now being "gloire de dijon by robert hope
63