DOI issue:
No. 216 (March, 1911)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0161
Studio- Talk
28 years' service in India he acquired an ex-
tensive knowledge of native art. He was a
man of considerable literary attainments, but
m this country he was perhaps best known as
the illustrator of several of the books written
by his famous son, Mr. Rudyard Kipling.
At the Grafton Galleries the National Por-
trait Society has been holding its inaugural
exhibition. The members of this Society con-
sist of the most brilliant English painters of
to-day, and there is a distinguished honorary
membership, which includes foreign artists.
Not all the canvases by living painters were
new work, Mr. Sargent and M. J. E. Blanche,
for instance, being largely represented by some
former triumphs ; but Mr. Wilson Steer, Mr.
W. Orpen, Mr. W. Nicholson, Mr. Walter
Russell, and Mr. George Henry, contributed
handsomely of work in their present vein, and
notable canvases were sent by Messrs. G. F.
Kelly, Glyn W. Philpot, J. von Glehn, Har-
rington Mann, and W. Graham Robertson;
these and such other eminent artists as P. A.
Laszlo, G. Sauter, Sydney Lee, J. McLure
Hamilton, T. Austen Brown, and Harold Speed,
all showed in force. It will thus be seen that
no aspect of portrait work went unrepresented,
nor was there any niggard representation of
the sister art, a feature of much interest being
Mr. F. Derwent Wood's model for the statue
of General Wolfe, and some beautiful examples
of Rodin's work. Both Mr. Basil Gotto and
Mr. Stirling Lee were most happily repre-
sented ; but the incident of the sculpture was
the exhibition of Mr. Jacob Epstein's remark-
able Euphemia and Rom.
The Senefelder Club, for the advancement
of artistic lithography, held its second exhibi-
tion at the Goupil Gallery in January. As
a medium, lithography shows its attractive
character in the hands of such artists as C.
H. Shannon, P. Renouard, Joseph Pennell,
Anquetin, and earlier — as represented in this
exhibition—in the hands of Manet; masters
of draughtsmanship, all of them, with a
curiously sympathetic pleasure in quality of
line itself. Another school personated in the
exhibition is concerned with chiaroscuro, appre-
ciating the emotional value of the blacks and
greys of lithography ; its best representatives
being C. Leandre, Hans Unger, Felicien Rops,
Steinlen, John Copley, and A. Legros ; and yet
another use of the chalk was shown by Sir Hubert
von Herkomer. The Society has been officially
invited to exhibit at the International Art Exhi-
bition at Barcelona which opens next month.
The choice of lithography as a medium is
practically the choice of the pencil as against
brush or graver, with the advantage of making
a multiplicity of copies. And in studying the
drawings in crayon and charcoal, &c, which
Mr. Walter Sickert has been exhibiting at the
Carfax Gallery, the mind immediately reverts
to the question of the essential mission for
artistic lithography. There are not too many
of Mr. Sickert's drawings, and there is in them
all the characteristic noted above, of Shannon,
Renouard, and others, who are, above every-
thing, artists, with no story to tell, except, as in
Mr. Sickert's sympathetic work, of the curious
beauty of drawing in the muscular back of a
stooping nude or the mysterious depths of
interior scenes, churches and theatres; or of
MEMORIAL BUST OF W. HEGINBOTTOM, ESQ., IN
THE FREE LIBRARY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE
BY F. V. BLUNDSTONE
139
28 years' service in India he acquired an ex-
tensive knowledge of native art. He was a
man of considerable literary attainments, but
m this country he was perhaps best known as
the illustrator of several of the books written
by his famous son, Mr. Rudyard Kipling.
At the Grafton Galleries the National Por-
trait Society has been holding its inaugural
exhibition. The members of this Society con-
sist of the most brilliant English painters of
to-day, and there is a distinguished honorary
membership, which includes foreign artists.
Not all the canvases by living painters were
new work, Mr. Sargent and M. J. E. Blanche,
for instance, being largely represented by some
former triumphs ; but Mr. Wilson Steer, Mr.
W. Orpen, Mr. W. Nicholson, Mr. Walter
Russell, and Mr. George Henry, contributed
handsomely of work in their present vein, and
notable canvases were sent by Messrs. G. F.
Kelly, Glyn W. Philpot, J. von Glehn, Har-
rington Mann, and W. Graham Robertson;
these and such other eminent artists as P. A.
Laszlo, G. Sauter, Sydney Lee, J. McLure
Hamilton, T. Austen Brown, and Harold Speed,
all showed in force. It will thus be seen that
no aspect of portrait work went unrepresented,
nor was there any niggard representation of
the sister art, a feature of much interest being
Mr. F. Derwent Wood's model for the statue
of General Wolfe, and some beautiful examples
of Rodin's work. Both Mr. Basil Gotto and
Mr. Stirling Lee were most happily repre-
sented ; but the incident of the sculpture was
the exhibition of Mr. Jacob Epstein's remark-
able Euphemia and Rom.
The Senefelder Club, for the advancement
of artistic lithography, held its second exhibi-
tion at the Goupil Gallery in January. As
a medium, lithography shows its attractive
character in the hands of such artists as C.
H. Shannon, P. Renouard, Joseph Pennell,
Anquetin, and earlier — as represented in this
exhibition—in the hands of Manet; masters
of draughtsmanship, all of them, with a
curiously sympathetic pleasure in quality of
line itself. Another school personated in the
exhibition is concerned with chiaroscuro, appre-
ciating the emotional value of the blacks and
greys of lithography ; its best representatives
being C. Leandre, Hans Unger, Felicien Rops,
Steinlen, John Copley, and A. Legros ; and yet
another use of the chalk was shown by Sir Hubert
von Herkomer. The Society has been officially
invited to exhibit at the International Art Exhi-
bition at Barcelona which opens next month.
The choice of lithography as a medium is
practically the choice of the pencil as against
brush or graver, with the advantage of making
a multiplicity of copies. And in studying the
drawings in crayon and charcoal, &c, which
Mr. Walter Sickert has been exhibiting at the
Carfax Gallery, the mind immediately reverts
to the question of the essential mission for
artistic lithography. There are not too many
of Mr. Sickert's drawings, and there is in them
all the characteristic noted above, of Shannon,
Renouard, and others, who are, above every-
thing, artists, with no story to tell, except, as in
Mr. Sickert's sympathetic work, of the curious
beauty of drawing in the muscular back of a
stooping nude or the mysterious depths of
interior scenes, churches and theatres; or of
MEMORIAL BUST OF W. HEGINBOTTOM, ESQ., IN
THE FREE LIBRARY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE
BY F. V. BLUNDSTONE
139