DOI Heft:
No. 177 (December, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Folliott Stokes, A. G.: The landscape painings of Mr. Algernon M. Talmage
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0222
Algernon M. Talmage
Cornish moorland are admirably portrayed. It is The White Cow is a difficult subject to treat
one of those " soft" days, so common in a western successfully, but here again nothing has been
winter. The great seaborne clouds are charged forced. The somewhat intricate background has
with rain, and the gorse and benty grasses of the been cleverly subordinated, yet the cows in the
foreground are dripping with moisture from a sun-dappled foreground do not obtrude. The
shower, which is seen passing away over St. Ives impression left on the mind is of one of those
Bay and the country beyond. These great uplands drowsy, windless summer noons when nature's
are difficult to treat, but the gaunt trees and the teeming millions are taking a well-earned siesta,
well-balanced lines give the necessary pictorial effect. A Moonlight Night shows us a village street
Decorative in arrangement and entirely uncon- steeped in moonlight. The whole picture is
ventional is the Moonrise in Picardy. Carrying instinct with that rapture of repose which the soft
the trees so far across the picture was a bold thing beams of the queen of night make visible. A
to do, but they have been cleverly made to simple subject enough, but rendered with loving
compose. That tender half time between day and fidelity. A. G. F. S.
night, when the moon, not yet regnant, is but a
pale disc in the eastern sky, is a very favourite one (The picture reproduced on the next page is one
with the painter. In this instance the gracious, of a series now being done by Mr. Talmage in
almost tender, dignity of the time is wonderfully London. The original is on view at the current
caught. It is one of those rare moments when exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists
nature seems to be hushed in silent adoration, in Suffolk Street.)
"A MOONLIGHT NIGHT "
BY ALGERNON M. TALMAGE
Cornish moorland are admirably portrayed. It is The White Cow is a difficult subject to treat
one of those " soft" days, so common in a western successfully, but here again nothing has been
winter. The great seaborne clouds are charged forced. The somewhat intricate background has
with rain, and the gorse and benty grasses of the been cleverly subordinated, yet the cows in the
foreground are dripping with moisture from a sun-dappled foreground do not obtrude. The
shower, which is seen passing away over St. Ives impression left on the mind is of one of those
Bay and the country beyond. These great uplands drowsy, windless summer noons when nature's
are difficult to treat, but the gaunt trees and the teeming millions are taking a well-earned siesta,
well-balanced lines give the necessary pictorial effect. A Moonlight Night shows us a village street
Decorative in arrangement and entirely uncon- steeped in moonlight. The whole picture is
ventional is the Moonrise in Picardy. Carrying instinct with that rapture of repose which the soft
the trees so far across the picture was a bold thing beams of the queen of night make visible. A
to do, but they have been cleverly made to simple subject enough, but rendered with loving
compose. That tender half time between day and fidelity. A. G. F. S.
night, when the moon, not yet regnant, is but a
pale disc in the eastern sky, is a very favourite one (The picture reproduced on the next page is one
with the painter. In this instance the gracious, of a series now being done by Mr. Talmage in
almost tender, dignity of the time is wonderfully London. The original is on view at the current
caught. It is one of those rare moments when exhibition of the Royal Society of British Artists
nature seems to be hushed in silent adoration, in Suffolk Street.)
"A MOONLIGHT NIGHT "
BY ALGERNON M. TALMAGE