DOI Heft:
No. 199 (October, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0101
Sfudio- Talk
michael. During the year
the society has considered
various matters with a
view to improving the
exhibition, and as one of
the results issued a splen-
didly designed catalogue
which did much to popu-
larise the exhibition.
The President, Mr.
McCubbin, showed
several very poetic can-
vases, the result of his
recent tour to Europe.
His Moonrise and Winter
Sunlight were quite the
"winter sunlight" by f. mccubbin best things in the exhibi-
tion— charming alike in
colour and composition.
almost architectural quality, impresses one in all the Mr. Walter Withers had many fine landscapes—
work of this artist: and when added to this one mostly transcripts of Eltham scenery. His Silent
finds largeness and breadth of scale and purity and Gums has been purchased by the National Gallery
charm of colour one feels that here, more than of Victoria under the terms of the Felton Bequest,
commonly, is the full equipment of the painter. Mr. Ford Paterson and Mr. Mathers showed the
As a Western woman, Mrs. Richardson's work has usual characteristic work in landscape — a fine
developed under conditions of singular isolation, canvas by the latter being Evening, Erskine River,
The old idea, encountered even to-day, that Lome. W. N. Anderson, one of the younger
California is mysteriously separate from the United landscapists, showed a distinct advance in Morning,
States, had some basis of truth. The Chinese wall Kangaroo Ground—a large atmospheric canvas,
of the Rocky Mountains
on the east and the Pacific
on the west did until
recently constitute Cali-
fornia "a garden inclosed,"
where the artist has de-
veloped alone and unin-
fluenced, save by natural
conditions comparable
only to Spain or Italy.
This art - isolation is a
thing of the past, but thai
it was not hostile to the
ripening of talent the work
of Mary Curtis Richardson
goes to show. G. A.
M
ELBOURNE.
—The annual
exhibition of
the Victorian
Artists' Society was
opened on 16th July, by
Sir Thomas Gibson Car- "evening, erskine river, lorne" by j. mathers
79
michael. During the year
the society has considered
various matters with a
view to improving the
exhibition, and as one of
the results issued a splen-
didly designed catalogue
which did much to popu-
larise the exhibition.
The President, Mr.
McCubbin, showed
several very poetic can-
vases, the result of his
recent tour to Europe.
His Moonrise and Winter
Sunlight were quite the
"winter sunlight" by f. mccubbin best things in the exhibi-
tion— charming alike in
colour and composition.
almost architectural quality, impresses one in all the Mr. Walter Withers had many fine landscapes—
work of this artist: and when added to this one mostly transcripts of Eltham scenery. His Silent
finds largeness and breadth of scale and purity and Gums has been purchased by the National Gallery
charm of colour one feels that here, more than of Victoria under the terms of the Felton Bequest,
commonly, is the full equipment of the painter. Mr. Ford Paterson and Mr. Mathers showed the
As a Western woman, Mrs. Richardson's work has usual characteristic work in landscape — a fine
developed under conditions of singular isolation, canvas by the latter being Evening, Erskine River,
The old idea, encountered even to-day, that Lome. W. N. Anderson, one of the younger
California is mysteriously separate from the United landscapists, showed a distinct advance in Morning,
States, had some basis of truth. The Chinese wall Kangaroo Ground—a large atmospheric canvas,
of the Rocky Mountains
on the east and the Pacific
on the west did until
recently constitute Cali-
fornia "a garden inclosed,"
where the artist has de-
veloped alone and unin-
fluenced, save by natural
conditions comparable
only to Spain or Italy.
This art - isolation is a
thing of the past, but thai
it was not hostile to the
ripening of talent the work
of Mary Curtis Richardson
goes to show. G. A.
M
ELBOURNE.
—The annual
exhibition of
the Victorian
Artists' Society was
opened on 16th July, by
Sir Thomas Gibson Car- "evening, erskine river, lorne" by j. mathers
79