DOI Heft:
Nr. 191 (February 1909)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20966#0080
Studio-Talk
correctness of his artistic taste. In these land-
scapes he has taken full advantage of the oppor-
tunities afforded him by the character of the
scenery round about the Lakes; he has appreciated
rightly its dignity and largeness of line, and its
impressive beauty of effect, and he has treated it
with a scholarly reserve that can be sincerely
admired. The value of this reserve is seen most
of all in his intelligent avoidance of those errors of
overstatement which are too often found in paint-
ings of wide-stretching distances ; he never fritters
away his effects by insisting unduly upon little
things, but he keeps instead the unity of his com-
positions by excluding from them everything that
is unnecessary for the proper explaining of his
design, and so establishing the right balance be.
tween the different parts of his picture. As a
colourist he is sensitive and refined, a lover of
delicate harmonies and subtle relations of colour-
tone, which he treats with the same kind of breadth
that distinguishes his arrangement of lines and
masses. This exhibition shows attractively many
of the better aspects of his art.
We give here two examples of photographs
taken by Mrs. Caleb Keene, a South African lady
who was represented in the last Photographic
Salon, and who, in recognition of the good quality
of her work, has recently been elected a Fellow
of the Royal Photographic Society.
Besides the unprecedented programme at the
Academy, January and February have witnessed
another great event, “ Mr. Punch’s Pageant ” at the
Leicester Gallery, consisting of a chronological
series of original drawings and all the relics of the
“Punch” office. The exhibition was continuously
crowded. “ Mr. Punch” will soon arrive at his three-
score years and ten, and all
these years he has sympa-
thetically held the public
pulse, and with unfailing
liveliness sustained his
countrymen’s traditions.
The art which has found
acceptance in his pages has
always been that which has
expressed the character-
istics of the nation, and
every aspect of British
social life has been reflected
with a fidelity unknown in
the pictorial chronicles of
any other land.
The exhibition of pic-
tures of children at the
Baillie Gallery resolved
itself somewhat inevitably
into a women’s exhibition,
since the art of women so
often inclines to the nur-
sery, to the women’s pro-
vince in life, for its subjects,
and is perhaps always at its
happiest in it. The World
is so full of a number oj
Things, by Miss Amy At-
kinson ; A Lady from
China, by Miss Maud
Flenderson ; Her Seventh
Birthday, by Miss Eva
Roos; The Invalid., by
correctness of his artistic taste. In these land-
scapes he has taken full advantage of the oppor-
tunities afforded him by the character of the
scenery round about the Lakes; he has appreciated
rightly its dignity and largeness of line, and its
impressive beauty of effect, and he has treated it
with a scholarly reserve that can be sincerely
admired. The value of this reserve is seen most
of all in his intelligent avoidance of those errors of
overstatement which are too often found in paint-
ings of wide-stretching distances ; he never fritters
away his effects by insisting unduly upon little
things, but he keeps instead the unity of his com-
positions by excluding from them everything that
is unnecessary for the proper explaining of his
design, and so establishing the right balance be.
tween the different parts of his picture. As a
colourist he is sensitive and refined, a lover of
delicate harmonies and subtle relations of colour-
tone, which he treats with the same kind of breadth
that distinguishes his arrangement of lines and
masses. This exhibition shows attractively many
of the better aspects of his art.
We give here two examples of photographs
taken by Mrs. Caleb Keene, a South African lady
who was represented in the last Photographic
Salon, and who, in recognition of the good quality
of her work, has recently been elected a Fellow
of the Royal Photographic Society.
Besides the unprecedented programme at the
Academy, January and February have witnessed
another great event, “ Mr. Punch’s Pageant ” at the
Leicester Gallery, consisting of a chronological
series of original drawings and all the relics of the
“Punch” office. The exhibition was continuously
crowded. “ Mr. Punch” will soon arrive at his three-
score years and ten, and all
these years he has sympa-
thetically held the public
pulse, and with unfailing
liveliness sustained his
countrymen’s traditions.
The art which has found
acceptance in his pages has
always been that which has
expressed the character-
istics of the nation, and
every aspect of British
social life has been reflected
with a fidelity unknown in
the pictorial chronicles of
any other land.
The exhibition of pic-
tures of children at the
Baillie Gallery resolved
itself somewhat inevitably
into a women’s exhibition,
since the art of women so
often inclines to the nur-
sery, to the women’s pro-
vince in life, for its subjects,
and is perhaps always at its
happiest in it. The World
is so full of a number oj
Things, by Miss Amy At-
kinson ; A Lady from
China, by Miss Maud
Flenderson ; Her Seventh
Birthday, by Miss Eva
Roos; The Invalid., by