DOI issue:
No. 234 (September 1912)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21157#0339
Studio-Talk
PORTRAIT OF DF.RMOD O’BRIEN, P.R.H.A. FROM A
DRAWING BY W. STRANG, A.R.A.
held the exhibitions of the International Society of
Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers, who since the
closing of the New Gallery have shown at the
Grafton Galleries. Our readers will be interested
to learn that the promoters of this new Grosvenor
Gallery have appointed Mr. T. Martin Wood, who
has been closely associated with this magazine for
several years past, to be permanent secretary of
the gallery. Mr. Wood is in complete sympathy
with the aims of the promoters, and his appoint-
ment augurs well for the attainment of those
aims. The programme for the next few months
includes exhibitions of the Arts and Crafts
Society, the National Portrait Society, and the
International Society.
A correspondent asks us whether under the
National Insurance Act, which came into force
on July igj it will be necessary for artists to
insure any models employed by them, even if only
seems to be clear on this point, that all persons who
are casually employed for the purposes of the em-
ployer’s trade or business have to be insured; and
we should say that artists’ models come within the
purview of this provision, or at all events those of
them who are employed at a rate of less than £ 160
a year, as most of them no doubt are, and are over
sixteen and under seventy years of age.
DUBLIN.—This year’s exhibition of the
Royal Hibernian Academy was much
above the average of recent years.
It included a brilliant work by Mr.
William Orpen—a nude study of a recumbent
female figure entitled simply A Woman, a fine
male portrait by Mr. Augustus John, and several of
Mr. Gerald Kelly’s sympathetic portraits ; while the
contributions from resident Dublin painters, both
in landscape and portraiture, were remarkable
alike for their high standard of attainment and
their variety of interest. Several of the younger
painters whose names are not yet enrolled amongst
the members and associates of the Academy sent
admirable work. Mr. Jack Yeats’s Maggie Man
was an arresting study of a fast-vanishing West of
Ireland “ type,” painted with certainty of touch and
intensity of purpose. Miss Eva Hamilton, who
has gained in breadth and fineness of vision, was
particularly successful in her interior, A Bright
Morning, with a mother and child looking out
across a Dublin street. Interesting work was shown
by Miss Clare Marsh, Miss Estella Solomons, Mr.
Tom Scott, Miss Meta Tatlow, and others, the
landscapes frequently bearing traces of the in-
fluence of Mr. Nathaniel Hone. That veteran
painter was represented by several fine landscapes
and sea-pieces, all of which showed the poetic
feeling and distinction of handling which charac-
terise his work. Several interesting portraits of
at irregular intervals The Act, although fraught “summer”: repouss^ panel for overmantel. by marion
,H. WILSON'
Wltn all sorts of intricacies and complications, (See Glasgow Studio-Talk)
317
PORTRAIT OF DF.RMOD O’BRIEN, P.R.H.A. FROM A
DRAWING BY W. STRANG, A.R.A.
held the exhibitions of the International Society of
Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers, who since the
closing of the New Gallery have shown at the
Grafton Galleries. Our readers will be interested
to learn that the promoters of this new Grosvenor
Gallery have appointed Mr. T. Martin Wood, who
has been closely associated with this magazine for
several years past, to be permanent secretary of
the gallery. Mr. Wood is in complete sympathy
with the aims of the promoters, and his appoint-
ment augurs well for the attainment of those
aims. The programme for the next few months
includes exhibitions of the Arts and Crafts
Society, the National Portrait Society, and the
International Society.
A correspondent asks us whether under the
National Insurance Act, which came into force
on July igj it will be necessary for artists to
insure any models employed by them, even if only
seems to be clear on this point, that all persons who
are casually employed for the purposes of the em-
ployer’s trade or business have to be insured; and
we should say that artists’ models come within the
purview of this provision, or at all events those of
them who are employed at a rate of less than £ 160
a year, as most of them no doubt are, and are over
sixteen and under seventy years of age.
DUBLIN.—This year’s exhibition of the
Royal Hibernian Academy was much
above the average of recent years.
It included a brilliant work by Mr.
William Orpen—a nude study of a recumbent
female figure entitled simply A Woman, a fine
male portrait by Mr. Augustus John, and several of
Mr. Gerald Kelly’s sympathetic portraits ; while the
contributions from resident Dublin painters, both
in landscape and portraiture, were remarkable
alike for their high standard of attainment and
their variety of interest. Several of the younger
painters whose names are not yet enrolled amongst
the members and associates of the Academy sent
admirable work. Mr. Jack Yeats’s Maggie Man
was an arresting study of a fast-vanishing West of
Ireland “ type,” painted with certainty of touch and
intensity of purpose. Miss Eva Hamilton, who
has gained in breadth and fineness of vision, was
particularly successful in her interior, A Bright
Morning, with a mother and child looking out
across a Dublin street. Interesting work was shown
by Miss Clare Marsh, Miss Estella Solomons, Mr.
Tom Scott, Miss Meta Tatlow, and others, the
landscapes frequently bearing traces of the in-
fluence of Mr. Nathaniel Hone. That veteran
painter was represented by several fine landscapes
and sea-pieces, all of which showed the poetic
feeling and distinction of handling which charac-
terise his work. Several interesting portraits of
at irregular intervals The Act, although fraught “summer”: repouss^ panel for overmantel. by marion
,H. WILSON'
Wltn all sorts of intricacies and complications, (See Glasgow Studio-Talk)
317