DOI issue:
Nr. 182 (May 1908)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20777#0343
Studio- Talk
In the Water Colour sec-
tion attention is arrested by
the portraiture of P. A. Hay,
R.S.W.; sketches of Holland
by Emily M. Paterson,
R.S.W.; delightful bits of rural
England by Alex. McBride,
R.I.; powerful storm effects
by T. Marjoribanks Hay,
R.S.W.; clever figure studies
by H. C. Preston Macgoun,
R.S.W. ; gem - like colour
harmonies by Hans Han-
son, R.S.W. ; spontaneously
sparkling drawings by R. M.
G. Coventry, A.R.S.A. ; and
well drawn and powerfully
coloured sketches by John
Hassail, R.I. Amongst the
Sculpture exhibits, two gar-
den pieces by Albert H.
Hodge attract notice, an
artist at present executing an
important commission on
the new buildings of the
Clyde Navigation Trust.
J. T. “mamaison”
PARIS. — The recent exhibition of the
Socidt^ Nouvelle de Peintres et Sculp-
teurs was perhaps more important than
any it has hitherto held. The President,
M. Auguste Rodin, was represented by two
masterly works — a portrait bust in marble of
Mr. Pulitzer, and a bronze group, Le Sculpteur et sa
Muse. Beautiful in itself from its consummate
conception and execution, magnificent in its
abundance of energy, yet possessing a quite subtle
refinement, this portrait with its dignified allure
deeply stirs the emotions when one beholds
beneath the arched brows the shadow of blindness
and the reflection of a mind whose absorption is
the greater through being concentrated upon itself
in silence and solitude. The other work, though
lacking the serenity of the bust, is, if anything,
even richer in its emotional qualities. A sculptor
is here presented to us seated, the elbow resting on
his knee and the hand supporting the bent head,
his face wearing an expression of sadness or even
come. When the leaf begins to fall, he is out with
Nature in her changing moods, and lucky he was
to find her so late in the day gaily decked in a
gown of glowing red.
Robert Burns, A.R.S.A., delights in giving a
picturesque setting to a portrait; in the case of
Mrs. W. E. Townsend it is a bow-window, water
beyond, with ships visible through the cleverly
painted glass, the light showing through the drawn
blind emphasising the skilfully painted drapery of
the sitter—all masterly in the extreme.
In the West Room there are three remarkable
portraits by modern individualists : The Marquis
of Tullibaj-dine, by Sir James Guthrie, P.R.S.A.,
a portrait to command attention in any collection
of pictures, enhanced greatly by the picturesque
Highland garb; Seiior Manuei Garcia, by J. S.
Sargent, R.A., a living representation of the great
singing - master ; and Lord ATewlands, by Sir
George Reid, R.S.A., a cha-
racteristic example of the
work of the Ex-President
of the Royal Scottish Aca-
demy. _
BY H. LE SIDANER
In the Water Colour sec-
tion attention is arrested by
the portraiture of P. A. Hay,
R.S.W.; sketches of Holland
by Emily M. Paterson,
R.S.W.; delightful bits of rural
England by Alex. McBride,
R.I.; powerful storm effects
by T. Marjoribanks Hay,
R.S.W.; clever figure studies
by H. C. Preston Macgoun,
R.S.W. ; gem - like colour
harmonies by Hans Han-
son, R.S.W. ; spontaneously
sparkling drawings by R. M.
G. Coventry, A.R.S.A. ; and
well drawn and powerfully
coloured sketches by John
Hassail, R.I. Amongst the
Sculpture exhibits, two gar-
den pieces by Albert H.
Hodge attract notice, an
artist at present executing an
important commission on
the new buildings of the
Clyde Navigation Trust.
J. T. “mamaison”
PARIS. — The recent exhibition of the
Socidt^ Nouvelle de Peintres et Sculp-
teurs was perhaps more important than
any it has hitherto held. The President,
M. Auguste Rodin, was represented by two
masterly works — a portrait bust in marble of
Mr. Pulitzer, and a bronze group, Le Sculpteur et sa
Muse. Beautiful in itself from its consummate
conception and execution, magnificent in its
abundance of energy, yet possessing a quite subtle
refinement, this portrait with its dignified allure
deeply stirs the emotions when one beholds
beneath the arched brows the shadow of blindness
and the reflection of a mind whose absorption is
the greater through being concentrated upon itself
in silence and solitude. The other work, though
lacking the serenity of the bust, is, if anything,
even richer in its emotional qualities. A sculptor
is here presented to us seated, the elbow resting on
his knee and the hand supporting the bent head,
his face wearing an expression of sadness or even
come. When the leaf begins to fall, he is out with
Nature in her changing moods, and lucky he was
to find her so late in the day gaily decked in a
gown of glowing red.
Robert Burns, A.R.S.A., delights in giving a
picturesque setting to a portrait; in the case of
Mrs. W. E. Townsend it is a bow-window, water
beyond, with ships visible through the cleverly
painted glass, the light showing through the drawn
blind emphasising the skilfully painted drapery of
the sitter—all masterly in the extreme.
In the West Room there are three remarkable
portraits by modern individualists : The Marquis
of Tullibaj-dine, by Sir James Guthrie, P.R.S.A.,
a portrait to command attention in any collection
of pictures, enhanced greatly by the picturesque
Highland garb; Seiior Manuei Garcia, by J. S.
Sargent, R.A., a living representation of the great
singing - master ; and Lord ATewlands, by Sir
George Reid, R.S.A., a cha-
racteristic example of the
work of the Ex-President
of the Royal Scottish Aca-
demy. _
BY H. LE SIDANER