DOI Heft:
No. 201 (December, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0251
Studio- Talk
truth of interpretation attained in his interiors At the Leicester Gallery the three exhibitions
last year. A. Falchetti's Inverno al Santuario held simultaneously in October and November
d'Oropu suite Alpi, and Mr. D. Y. Cameron's The were all of much interest. Mr. William Strang's
Citadel, Cairo, are two of the most important work is so individual and his aims so high that an
pictures in the Salon. Mr. J. D. Fergusson's exhibition of a collection of his work is an event.
Chez Reboux, Mr. J. C. W. Cossaar's Binnenhof Steeped as his art appears to be in scholarship of
Mr. Alexander Jamieson's Summer in France, Mr. Venetian tradition—that is, as regards his paintings
Fred. Mayor's The Circus, Mr. F. H. S. Shepherd's —his etchings reveal quite another Mr. Strang, with
A Conversation, are other pictures of much interest, whom we are more familiar. It is only in such a
as also are the curious little panel, A May Queen, painting as The Blind Musician that the character
by Mr. A. S. Hartrick ; The Prison, Venice, by Mr. which we associate with his etchings, and which,
George Thomson; the Dinner Table, with Flowers, we think, reveals his true personality, reappears,
by Sir Wm. Eden; Newlyn, by Mr. Lamorna Birch; The other exhibitions were those of the water-
A Frosty Morn, by Mr. Arthur Friedenson ; The colour illustrations of Mr. W. Lee Hankey for
View from the Loggia, by Mr. Alfred Hay ward; In "The Deserted Village" and the illustrations of
a Park, by Mr. Albert Rothenstein, and Mist and Mr. Edmund Dulac for the Rubaiyat of Omar
Calm, by Miss Ethel Walker. There are two Khayyam. Mr. Lee Hankey's work emphasises
interesting canvases by M. Le Sidaner, and The the difference between illustration in the old days
Happy Mother, by Mr. G. W. Lambert, is a fine and as it is now. There is no one of the newer
achievement. Mr. Walter Russell's Poole Harbour school cleverer than this artist, and his interpreta-
is a landscape of unusual beauty. tions are not unpoetic for all their realism. Mr.
Edmund Dulac's pictures
are upon the best lines for
the decoration of a book.
We wonder if he has not
missed a little of the grace
in drawing feminine char-
acter which was so attrac-
tive in his last designs,
but in all other respects
his art is enriched and
shows a closer observance
of beauty.
Tempera is a medium
which has its native
quality, just as water-
colour, and the artist's
work of course is most
admirable that expresses
its essential quality. In
the Exhibition of the
Society of Painters in
Tempera,— the most im-
portant of recent exhibi-
tions at the Baillie Gallery
—we found these merits
best exemplified in such
works as The Half-
Way House, Minchin-
hampton Common, by Mr.
Norman Wilkinson; San
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN BY FRANZ HALS GiOTgiO Maggiore, by
(National Loan Exhibition, lent by Messrs. Dtiveen Bros. ) Mr. Joseph E, Southall;
truth of interpretation attained in his interiors At the Leicester Gallery the three exhibitions
last year. A. Falchetti's Inverno al Santuario held simultaneously in October and November
d'Oropu suite Alpi, and Mr. D. Y. Cameron's The were all of much interest. Mr. William Strang's
Citadel, Cairo, are two of the most important work is so individual and his aims so high that an
pictures in the Salon. Mr. J. D. Fergusson's exhibition of a collection of his work is an event.
Chez Reboux, Mr. J. C. W. Cossaar's Binnenhof Steeped as his art appears to be in scholarship of
Mr. Alexander Jamieson's Summer in France, Mr. Venetian tradition—that is, as regards his paintings
Fred. Mayor's The Circus, Mr. F. H. S. Shepherd's —his etchings reveal quite another Mr. Strang, with
A Conversation, are other pictures of much interest, whom we are more familiar. It is only in such a
as also are the curious little panel, A May Queen, painting as The Blind Musician that the character
by Mr. A. S. Hartrick ; The Prison, Venice, by Mr. which we associate with his etchings, and which,
George Thomson; the Dinner Table, with Flowers, we think, reveals his true personality, reappears,
by Sir Wm. Eden; Newlyn, by Mr. Lamorna Birch; The other exhibitions were those of the water-
A Frosty Morn, by Mr. Arthur Friedenson ; The colour illustrations of Mr. W. Lee Hankey for
View from the Loggia, by Mr. Alfred Hay ward; In "The Deserted Village" and the illustrations of
a Park, by Mr. Albert Rothenstein, and Mist and Mr. Edmund Dulac for the Rubaiyat of Omar
Calm, by Miss Ethel Walker. There are two Khayyam. Mr. Lee Hankey's work emphasises
interesting canvases by M. Le Sidaner, and The the difference between illustration in the old days
Happy Mother, by Mr. G. W. Lambert, is a fine and as it is now. There is no one of the newer
achievement. Mr. Walter Russell's Poole Harbour school cleverer than this artist, and his interpreta-
is a landscape of unusual beauty. tions are not unpoetic for all their realism. Mr.
Edmund Dulac's pictures
are upon the best lines for
the decoration of a book.
We wonder if he has not
missed a little of the grace
in drawing feminine char-
acter which was so attrac-
tive in his last designs,
but in all other respects
his art is enriched and
shows a closer observance
of beauty.
Tempera is a medium
which has its native
quality, just as water-
colour, and the artist's
work of course is most
admirable that expresses
its essential quality. In
the Exhibition of the
Society of Painters in
Tempera,— the most im-
portant of recent exhibi-
tions at the Baillie Gallery
—we found these merits
best exemplified in such
works as The Half-
Way House, Minchin-
hampton Common, by Mr.
Norman Wilkinson; San
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN BY FRANZ HALS GiOTgiO Maggiore, by
(National Loan Exhibition, lent by Messrs. Dtiveen Bros. ) Mr. Joseph E, Southall;