DOI issue:
No. 229 (May 1912)
DOI article:Stodart-Walker, Archibald: The paintings of D. Y. Cameron, A. R. A., A. R. S. A.
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0278
D. Y. Camerons Paintings
The paintings of d. y.
CAMERON, A.R.A., A.R.S.A.
BY A. STODART WALKER
It is hardly a novelty to find a great etcher achiev-
ing distinction as a colourist. Of the famous trio
which formed the subject of one of Mr. Cameron’s
most illuminative addresses on etchers and etching,
Rembrandt, Meryon, and Whistler, two were masters
of colour, and he who seems destined to stand side
by side with these and worthy of sharing their
eminence as gravers is producing work in oil and
water-colour that places him amongst the most
notable painters of the day. And those cynics
who name success and distinction as antagonistic
terms must accept Mr. Cameron as a marked ex-
ception to the rule, for the distinguished Scotsman,
whatever his earlier experiences, is one of those
fortunate craftsmen whose work secures a certain
market as soon as it leaves the easel, and not in-
frequently even before that fateful day.
Mr. Cameron is a Scotsman who, while loyal
to a Scottish residence—his beautiful home near
Kippen, in Stirlingshire, is an ideal residence for a
painter—is as well known to the English people as
he is to his own countrymen; though his loyalty
to his Alma Mater, the Royal Scottish Academy,
ensures that notable body having the first call
upon the products of his genius. But at the
International, the “ Old ” Water-Colour Society,
the Society of Twelve, the Goupil and other
galleries his work always finds an adequate repre-
sentation, as it did at the lately deceased New
Gallery, and now that he is an Associate of the
Royal Academy further opportunity will be afforded
the public of knowing what manner of man Mr.
Cameron is as revealed in his work.
An olim civis of that most eclectic group, the
Glasgow School of Painters, Mr. Cameron can
hardly be said to possess any characteristic
peculiarly diagnostic of that influential phase of our
modern artistic expression. Indeed, from the first
The paintings of d. y.
CAMERON, A.R.A., A.R.S.A.
BY A. STODART WALKER
It is hardly a novelty to find a great etcher achiev-
ing distinction as a colourist. Of the famous trio
which formed the subject of one of Mr. Cameron’s
most illuminative addresses on etchers and etching,
Rembrandt, Meryon, and Whistler, two were masters
of colour, and he who seems destined to stand side
by side with these and worthy of sharing their
eminence as gravers is producing work in oil and
water-colour that places him amongst the most
notable painters of the day. And those cynics
who name success and distinction as antagonistic
terms must accept Mr. Cameron as a marked ex-
ception to the rule, for the distinguished Scotsman,
whatever his earlier experiences, is one of those
fortunate craftsmen whose work secures a certain
market as soon as it leaves the easel, and not in-
frequently even before that fateful day.
Mr. Cameron is a Scotsman who, while loyal
to a Scottish residence—his beautiful home near
Kippen, in Stirlingshire, is an ideal residence for a
painter—is as well known to the English people as
he is to his own countrymen; though his loyalty
to his Alma Mater, the Royal Scottish Academy,
ensures that notable body having the first call
upon the products of his genius. But at the
International, the “ Old ” Water-Colour Society,
the Society of Twelve, the Goupil and other
galleries his work always finds an adequate repre-
sentation, as it did at the lately deceased New
Gallery, and now that he is an Associate of the
Royal Academy further opportunity will be afforded
the public of knowing what manner of man Mr.
Cameron is as revealed in his work.
An olim civis of that most eclectic group, the
Glasgow School of Painters, Mr. Cameron can
hardly be said to possess any characteristic
peculiarly diagnostic of that influential phase of our
modern artistic expression. Indeed, from the first