DOI Heft:
No. 238 (January 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0345
Studio-Talk
in his conceits. The careful portraiture of “ type ”
is the field in which Mr. George Belcher excels,
while at the opposite pole to his method we have
the extreme simplification and obviously “comic”
intentions of Mr. Hassall. Mr. George Morrow
seems possessed of an inexhaustible fund of humour.
Mr. Rene Bull follows in England the method of
the late Caran d’Ache ; Mr. Dudley Hardy, as this
exhibition proved, cannot quite reconcile himself
to the business of sheer humour; in him the con-
siderable artist and considerable humorist seem
to struggle with each other rather than to combine,
as with the artists above mentioned. These do not
complete the list of exhibiting members, but they
indicate sufficiently the scope and interest of the
exhibition, which was held at Messrs. Manzi, Joyant
and Co.’s Gallery in Bedford Street, Covent Garden.
The Chenil Gallery, Chelsea, recently exhibited a
series of drawings by Mr. Noel Simmons. It will
be evident from repro-
ductions we have made
from three of these that
the artist is a draughts-
man of exceptional talent
and also that he does not
work within a limited
range of subjects. Nor
does he shirk complica-
tion of incident in his
compositions. His draw-
ings are all the more
admirable for a happy
taste in colour in the
instances in which they
are completed in water-
colour. Here, it seems
to us, is the very illus-
trator some publisher or
other must be in search
of, if the artist can be
brought to adapt his
talent to the conditions
of book-printing. The
precision of his execution
is fascinating at a time
like the present when the
impressionistic move-
ment seems fading into a
general content with mere
sloppiness of drawing.
comprise a display of the sea pieces of Mr. Terrick
Williams at the Leicester Gallery, sincere and
accomplished impressions of harbour scenes, and
the decorations by Mr. George Sheringham at the
Ryder Gallery in the style recently illustrated in a
notice of his decorations in these columns.
EDINBURGH.—Eight Scottish artists, for
so one may still designate Messrs. Lavery
and Harrington Mann, have formed them-
selves into an exhibiting society and taken
a lease of premises in Shandwick Place, Edinburgh,
in which they propose to hold for short periods
twice a year exhibitions of their work. These consist
of one main gallery with amannexe and two small
rooms on the flat above, all decorated in a scheme
of light grey which gives that reposeful feeling so
helpful in an exhibition. The new brotherhood
does not spring from any antagonistic feeling
towards the Academy or other large societies, but
Other exhibitions of
interest in December
“roof repairs” from a watf.r-colour drawing by S. NOEI. SIMMONS
(Bv permission of Messrs. Chas. Chenil and Co., Ltd.)
in his conceits. The careful portraiture of “ type ”
is the field in which Mr. George Belcher excels,
while at the opposite pole to his method we have
the extreme simplification and obviously “comic”
intentions of Mr. Hassall. Mr. George Morrow
seems possessed of an inexhaustible fund of humour.
Mr. Rene Bull follows in England the method of
the late Caran d’Ache ; Mr. Dudley Hardy, as this
exhibition proved, cannot quite reconcile himself
to the business of sheer humour; in him the con-
siderable artist and considerable humorist seem
to struggle with each other rather than to combine,
as with the artists above mentioned. These do not
complete the list of exhibiting members, but they
indicate sufficiently the scope and interest of the
exhibition, which was held at Messrs. Manzi, Joyant
and Co.’s Gallery in Bedford Street, Covent Garden.
The Chenil Gallery, Chelsea, recently exhibited a
series of drawings by Mr. Noel Simmons. It will
be evident from repro-
ductions we have made
from three of these that
the artist is a draughts-
man of exceptional talent
and also that he does not
work within a limited
range of subjects. Nor
does he shirk complica-
tion of incident in his
compositions. His draw-
ings are all the more
admirable for a happy
taste in colour in the
instances in which they
are completed in water-
colour. Here, it seems
to us, is the very illus-
trator some publisher or
other must be in search
of, if the artist can be
brought to adapt his
talent to the conditions
of book-printing. The
precision of his execution
is fascinating at a time
like the present when the
impressionistic move-
ment seems fading into a
general content with mere
sloppiness of drawing.
comprise a display of the sea pieces of Mr. Terrick
Williams at the Leicester Gallery, sincere and
accomplished impressions of harbour scenes, and
the decorations by Mr. George Sheringham at the
Ryder Gallery in the style recently illustrated in a
notice of his decorations in these columns.
EDINBURGH.—Eight Scottish artists, for
so one may still designate Messrs. Lavery
and Harrington Mann, have formed them-
selves into an exhibiting society and taken
a lease of premises in Shandwick Place, Edinburgh,
in which they propose to hold for short periods
twice a year exhibitions of their work. These consist
of one main gallery with amannexe and two small
rooms on the flat above, all decorated in a scheme
of light grey which gives that reposeful feeling so
helpful in an exhibition. The new brotherhood
does not spring from any antagonistic feeling
towards the Academy or other large societies, but
Other exhibitions of
interest in December
“roof repairs” from a watf.r-colour drawing by S. NOEI. SIMMONS
(Bv permission of Messrs. Chas. Chenil and Co., Ltd.)