DOI Heft:
No. 200 (November, 200)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0168
Studio- Talk
"THE CANAL BRIDGE" (ETCHING) BY ANTHONY R. BARKER
source of strength of the R. B. A. at present is its
landscapes. Here Mr. East always sends of his
best, and among the more valuable contributions
by members were such works as the Green and
Silver of Mr. Talmage (though in this we seemed
to detect a considerable debt to the effects Mr.
Hughes-Stanton has associated with his name);
Corfe Mullen Mill, by Mr. F. Whitehead; The
Rising Moon, by Mr. T. F. M. Sheard ; Twilight,
Notre Dame, Paris, by Mr. F. F. Foottet; The Pool
of London, by Mr. H. K. Rooke ; Overlooking an
Estuary, by Mr. Walter Fowler; Australia Felix, by
Mr. Arthur Streeton (recently reproduced in The
Studio), and a delightful study of primroses by that
artist; and Mr. Hayley Lever's Fishing Boats.
Nor should we omit to mention Mr. D. Murray
Smith's The Edge of the Wood, A Winter Sun, by
Mr. Gardner Smith ; The Courtyard of the Orange
Trees, Cordova, by Mr. Trevor Haddon; The Severn
Sea; Porlock, Somerset, by Mr. Alec Carruthers
Gould; Ballard's Shaw, Limpsfield, by Mr. Lewis
G. Fry, and AM, by Mr. A. W. Foweraker. The
end wall of the middle gallery on which were hung
together the works by Mr. Schofield, Mr. Simpson,
146
and Mr. Foottet to which we have referred, was
a very happy piece of work on the part of the
hanging committee. _
Examples of Mr. Anthony R. Barker's etchings
have already appeared in these pages, and the
two further examples now reproduced will confirm
the opinion already given concerning his marked
talent for this means of expression. Mr. Barker
was a student of the London School of Art at
Kensington. __
At the Baillie Galleries Mr. W. Heath Robinson
has lately been exhibiting his illustrations to Rud-
yard Kipling's " Song of the English." Some of
the smaller headpieces in pen and ink exhibit a
very fluent and interesting line and feeling for
decoration; but the larger illustrations fail a little
in their choice of colour, and the attempt to fuse
the shapes of modern vessels with mystic design is
not always convincing. We find Mr. Robinson
happiest, perhaps, when in this respect he is least
ambitious. Though he is always an artist of much
imagination and invention, perhaps allegory of this
"THE CANAL BRIDGE" (ETCHING) BY ANTHONY R. BARKER
source of strength of the R. B. A. at present is its
landscapes. Here Mr. East always sends of his
best, and among the more valuable contributions
by members were such works as the Green and
Silver of Mr. Talmage (though in this we seemed
to detect a considerable debt to the effects Mr.
Hughes-Stanton has associated with his name);
Corfe Mullen Mill, by Mr. F. Whitehead; The
Rising Moon, by Mr. T. F. M. Sheard ; Twilight,
Notre Dame, Paris, by Mr. F. F. Foottet; The Pool
of London, by Mr. H. K. Rooke ; Overlooking an
Estuary, by Mr. Walter Fowler; Australia Felix, by
Mr. Arthur Streeton (recently reproduced in The
Studio), and a delightful study of primroses by that
artist; and Mr. Hayley Lever's Fishing Boats.
Nor should we omit to mention Mr. D. Murray
Smith's The Edge of the Wood, A Winter Sun, by
Mr. Gardner Smith ; The Courtyard of the Orange
Trees, Cordova, by Mr. Trevor Haddon; The Severn
Sea; Porlock, Somerset, by Mr. Alec Carruthers
Gould; Ballard's Shaw, Limpsfield, by Mr. Lewis
G. Fry, and AM, by Mr. A. W. Foweraker. The
end wall of the middle gallery on which were hung
together the works by Mr. Schofield, Mr. Simpson,
146
and Mr. Foottet to which we have referred, was
a very happy piece of work on the part of the
hanging committee. _
Examples of Mr. Anthony R. Barker's etchings
have already appeared in these pages, and the
two further examples now reproduced will confirm
the opinion already given concerning his marked
talent for this means of expression. Mr. Barker
was a student of the London School of Art at
Kensington. __
At the Baillie Galleries Mr. W. Heath Robinson
has lately been exhibiting his illustrations to Rud-
yard Kipling's " Song of the English." Some of
the smaller headpieces in pen and ink exhibit a
very fluent and interesting line and feeling for
decoration; but the larger illustrations fail a little
in their choice of colour, and the attempt to fuse
the shapes of modern vessels with mystic design is
not always convincing. We find Mr. Robinson
happiest, perhaps, when in this respect he is least
ambitious. Though he is always an artist of much
imagination and invention, perhaps allegory of this