DOI Heft:
No. 235 (October 1912)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0075
Studio-Talk
In addition to her considerable reputation as a
painter, she is pre-eminent as a pastellist. We
hardly know of another artist whose handling of
that difficult medium is so instinctive. Lately she
has turned to etching, and some exquisite plates in
the manner of the fine tinted drawing of tree form
which we reproduce are the result. We are inclined
to think that the gifted artist has not quite found
herself, as the saying is; she seems embarrassed by
her versatility. But we can only think of about
one other contemporary English woman artist with
the same resource of technique. When Miss Airy
has the confidence to make it the vehicle for
intimations of a more personal character, this gift
of expression will place her as an artist very high.
Her art is almost studiously impersonal at present;
she is passing through the stage with which all
great executants begin, in which problems are
chosen for their very difficulty as much as for any
other reason. The picture High Noon is Passing
was executed both in oil-pigment and in pastel.
It is a work which in both mediums expresses
artistic enjoyment, the theme and its execution
matching each other in light-heartedness. It sug-
gests a vein admitting ot the display of the gift
for pictorial composition in which Miss Airy also
excels. Miss Airy, who is a grand-daughter of Sir
George Biddell Airy, K.C.B., Astronomer-Royal,
was educated in painting at the Slade School of Art,
entering in 1899 and leaving in 1903. She
obtained the Slade Scholarship and all the Slade
prizes in succession. She has been a regular
exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1903 onwards.
In 1906 she was elected a member of the Pastel
Society, and in 1907 associate of the Royal Society
of Painter-Etchers. An exhibition of her work was
held at the Carfax Gallery in 1907, and at Pater-
son’s Gallery in 1911. The drawing Willow
Pattern, after being well placed at the Royal
Academy, was shown at the Franco-British Exhibi-
tion, and invited to Rome. Purchases were made
from her etchings by the Liverpool Corporation
in 1908.
The Director of the Tate Gallery is to be con-
gratulated upon arranging there at the same time a
Whistler and a Burne-Jones exhibition, both loan
collections. The two artists were the most signifi.
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5)
BY ANNA AIRY, A.R.E., R.O.I.
53
THE WINE-SHOP
In addition to her considerable reputation as a
painter, she is pre-eminent as a pastellist. We
hardly know of another artist whose handling of
that difficult medium is so instinctive. Lately she
has turned to etching, and some exquisite plates in
the manner of the fine tinted drawing of tree form
which we reproduce are the result. We are inclined
to think that the gifted artist has not quite found
herself, as the saying is; she seems embarrassed by
her versatility. But we can only think of about
one other contemporary English woman artist with
the same resource of technique. When Miss Airy
has the confidence to make it the vehicle for
intimations of a more personal character, this gift
of expression will place her as an artist very high.
Her art is almost studiously impersonal at present;
she is passing through the stage with which all
great executants begin, in which problems are
chosen for their very difficulty as much as for any
other reason. The picture High Noon is Passing
was executed both in oil-pigment and in pastel.
It is a work which in both mediums expresses
artistic enjoyment, the theme and its execution
matching each other in light-heartedness. It sug-
gests a vein admitting ot the display of the gift
for pictorial composition in which Miss Airy also
excels. Miss Airy, who is a grand-daughter of Sir
George Biddell Airy, K.C.B., Astronomer-Royal,
was educated in painting at the Slade School of Art,
entering in 1899 and leaving in 1903. She
obtained the Slade Scholarship and all the Slade
prizes in succession. She has been a regular
exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1903 onwards.
In 1906 she was elected a member of the Pastel
Society, and in 1907 associate of the Royal Society
of Painter-Etchers. An exhibition of her work was
held at the Carfax Gallery in 1907, and at Pater-
son’s Gallery in 1911. The drawing Willow
Pattern, after being well placed at the Royal
Academy, was shown at the Franco-British Exhibi-
tion, and invited to Rome. Purchases were made
from her etchings by the Liverpool Corporation
in 1908.
The Director of the Tate Gallery is to be con-
gratulated upon arranging there at the same time a
Whistler and a Burne-Jones exhibition, both loan
collections. The two artists were the most signifi.
<<
5)
BY ANNA AIRY, A.R.E., R.O.I.
53
THE WINE-SHOP