Studio: international art (48.1910)

Studio- Talk

well exemplified not only in the pieces of portraiture, unlucky ; and he adored little children. Prema-
whether in oil, tempera or slighter media, but in turely taken from the comradeship of life, he has
his very manner of making them—remodelling, left to those dear to him and to his comrades an
repainting, and in some cases wholly recasting abiding memory of a man to whom his art was
them. It was characteristic that he always an expression of a most sincere philosophy, radiant
attended to the portraiture of hands, whether of with the love and joy of real humanity,
a war-worn general, or of some loving mother of a W. H. D.

nursery, or of the little child's own self. If in

landscape Macgregor produced little beyond a few STUDIO-TALK,
sketches treasured by friends and purchasers, it (From Qur Qwn Correspondents.)

was perhaps because it was the ethical and the

human that appealed most strongly to him. ONDON.—The Family Group, by Franz

Visitors to his studio know the zest with which Hals, which Messrs. Duveen Bros, have

he sought to express himself in sculpture. His kindly allowed us to reproduce, was

chief piece, the group of The Road-Hammerers, ■ recently acquired from Col. Warde for

wrought and re-wrought to a satisfying pitch of a very large sum (considerably more than ,£50,000,

swing and rhythm, is a high example of art's we believe). The painting had been in the possession

tribute to the heroic in man's ordinary toil. It is a of Col. Warde's family for a century and a half, and

great poem of life and labour. It is the creation contrary to what has been stated in some quarters,

of a man who knew that things exist and are of there was never any doubt about its authorship.

value only by reason of their fundamental qualities. The great value placed on Hals' paintings witnesses
With Macgregor the

artist was so much the

man, and his works were

so much his children, that

it is permissible to close

this very brief tribute to

his art with a note of

elegy for the friend that

is lately gone, after a long

illness bravely endured.

As a brother-artist has

said, " he had such a zest

for life." His heart was

large enough to love the

whole world of nature—

mother-earth in all her

fertility, the sea in all its

moods, the sounding city

rich in the interests and

penalties of its strife and

din — but especially the

whole human race with

its wonderful past and its

powers for the future.

He was ever a stout

fighter for principles and

an enemy of all cant and

meanness. He had a

most chivalrous and en-
nobling conception of

womanhood. He felt a

profound compassion for

1 .... r "THE DESCENT OF ISHTAR BY A. G. MACGREGOR

the genuinely poor and (By permission of Mis. MacGrego?-)

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