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No. 226 (January 1912)
DOI Artikel:Taylor, Ernest Archibald: Etchings by american artists in Paris, [2]: Lester G. Hornby
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0309
American Etchers in Paris.—Lester G. Hornby
assimilate. Only when he awakens betimes to among the prominent is quite assured. His first
conceive the horror of the long, tight tentacles of work of note was published in Boston in 1906
pose and imitation will he find lasting joy in his under the title of " An Artist's Sketch-Book of Old
art; and if he can but add his little inimitable Marblehead," which immediately received an in-
thought and originality to the flickering embers, spiring recognition from his own country's art
how welcome it will be ! Certainly it is only a critics. Three of the drawings included in this
fool who will not accept a known and tried ex- Sketch-Book were among those reproduced in this
perience in such ways as it serves to fulfil his magazine on the occasion just referred to.*
wants. Influences will and must arise; but only One of the great charms of etching is that it is
the cunning workman will hide them, and toil on a means of expression by omission, and this in-
in elaborating his self-conscious frauds, imparting volves simplicity as understood by the artist—
his unscrupulous methods to the young and in- simplicity of subject, effect, and technique. A
nocent, deceiving the many and killing his own good etching, as also a good pen-and-ink drawing,
soul. It is always interesting to trace where in- will always suggest colour, and the virtue of the
fluences begin and leave off. Those that attracted * The Studio, November 1905. Other drawings by
Whistler—to take but one instance in our own day Mr- Hornby were reproduced in the issue for February
1907 (pp. 77-79), and some English drawings appeared in
—are easy to detect; but what a world of his own he January 1908.
made in etching, apart from
what he left to it in paint !
To the small sincere
army of new-comers must
be added the name of Lester
G. Hornby. Scarcely more
than half a dozen years ago HP^^^^^^^H
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Art Boston, Mass., ^Lf ■BhHbBHHHBhH
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entering a copper-engra\ ing *WmtBSjr-' ''^tmm\
and printing establishment, "^F?' ■ ^jmm\
at the same time study-
ing as a pupil in Julian's
Academy. Evenasa student
his own outlook in etching
attracted no mean com-
ment, and to-day his name "passage arabe, tunis" (aquatint) by lester g. hornby
287
assimilate. Only when he awakens betimes to among the prominent is quite assured. His first
conceive the horror of the long, tight tentacles of work of note was published in Boston in 1906
pose and imitation will he find lasting joy in his under the title of " An Artist's Sketch-Book of Old
art; and if he can but add his little inimitable Marblehead," which immediately received an in-
thought and originality to the flickering embers, spiring recognition from his own country's art
how welcome it will be ! Certainly it is only a critics. Three of the drawings included in this
fool who will not accept a known and tried ex- Sketch-Book were among those reproduced in this
perience in such ways as it serves to fulfil his magazine on the occasion just referred to.*
wants. Influences will and must arise; but only One of the great charms of etching is that it is
the cunning workman will hide them, and toil on a means of expression by omission, and this in-
in elaborating his self-conscious frauds, imparting volves simplicity as understood by the artist—
his unscrupulous methods to the young and in- simplicity of subject, effect, and technique. A
nocent, deceiving the many and killing his own good etching, as also a good pen-and-ink drawing,
soul. It is always interesting to trace where in- will always suggest colour, and the virtue of the
fluences begin and leave off. Those that attracted * The Studio, November 1905. Other drawings by
Whistler—to take but one instance in our own day Mr- Hornby were reproduced in the issue for February
1907 (pp. 77-79), and some English drawings appeared in
—are easy to detect; but what a world of his own he January 1908.
made in etching, apart from
what he left to it in paint !
To the small sincere
army of new-comers must
be added the name of Lester
G. Hornby. Scarcely more
than half a dozen years ago HP^^^^^^^H
Mr. Hornby was a student jf' _
at Mr. Eric Tape's School ^^^nBttiBiPlTllirTnWhlil ilW
Art Boston, Mass., ^Lf ■BhHbBHHHBhH
and readers of this maga- jKar ZSPJI^H
zinc may remember that HiJh mWB^mmmwK
about that time some of his BHH .jfjBSB^Es.:
drawings in pencil and pen f—qS^JmBBBBBBI
and ink were reproduced in BMpl BB tN§*Hs^*^KBlls^ES9
its pages—drawings which S H^<vi j mm
were rightly regarded as a Bf-■fn m wlm?'2fikw!mm
happy augury for laBrJlYslUHB ' ^I^S^mJmWm^^mr^mSmMm\
career. After leaving Mr. RSkSI. -'a^m^^Mk^KnaflaalitjSvl
Pape's school this energetic ||9^BiaTjfeaw¥^^vijflEYfl W*1mm mWkwSLm
joined staff HHI^mllT«fA\VLr ABj
of a Boston daily paper.
But the spirit of progression mm fijBB^ J_3iMbT
was too strong, and its lure BHKjjL F^tP^"""'"^ flHAnMB? I
impelled him to seek be- Bm t-^aU* :''^BJJJ|jJ
yond the limits entailed by mmmmWmW*^ mwmVm^k I
drawing for the daily Press. *amm%mm\*^aW L. m
Coming to Paris, he started WL< —w8| ■■EaZ^'I
a; the root of his quest by " "^^^BR^a «<BB Hi 111 1MB
entering a copper-engra\ ing *WmtBSjr-' ''^tmm\
and printing establishment, "^F?' ■ ^jmm\
at the same time study-
ing as a pupil in Julian's
Academy. Evenasa student
his own outlook in etching
attracted no mean com-
ment, and to-day his name "passage arabe, tunis" (aquatint) by lester g. hornby
287