DOI Heft:
No. 239 (February 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0088
Studio- Talk
"highland sheep" (Society of Sa
his powers, it is probably the most completely
successful work in this genre which this distin-
guished painter ever produced—rich and har-
monious in colour, charming in design, and
redolent throughout of that subtle mastery which
makes his work unique in modern British art.
E, DINBURGH.—The Society of Scottish
j Artists is nearing the close of the second
decade of its existence, and it has never
J better justified its place in the world of
art than by the collection of pictures, drawings,
and applied art recently shown in the galleries of
the Royal Scottish Academy. One can point to
stages in its career when the main interest lay in
the work of non-members. To-day it is otherwise.
The first aim of the society is " to stimulate the
younger artists to produce more original and im-
portant works," and the second proposition which
the society set before itself, of obtaining "interest-
ing and educative examples of various schools of
modern and, past art," has fallen very much into
the background. One reason for the new phase
doubtless is that the Academy has developed this
idea during recent years so strongly that it has
become less necessary for the younger society to
ish Artists) by Andrew douglas
continue in the same line. This also may have led
the society to strike out in a new direction by the
introduction on a scale of some importance of ex-
amples of various forms of applied art.
The new departure is justified, seeing that the
establishment of the Municipal College of Art has
opened wider the portals of education in the city,
and the time may not be distant when applied
art will have the galleries to itself for some
period of the year. Meantime the recent display
has served to draw public attention to the many
beautiful forms in which art may find suitable
expression. Apart from the loan examples by one
or two notable English artificers, the most im-
portant contributions included beautiful iron-work
by Thomas Hadden, a gesso panel by Margaret
Macdonald Mackintosh, enamels by J. Cromer
Watt, bookbinding by Miss J. E. Pagan 'and John
Macbeth, and stained glass panels and cartoons
by Douglas Strachan and R. Aiming Bell. Of the
five hundred and twenty-six exhibits nearly a
hundred were applied art.
The chairman of the council of the society, Mr.
A. E. Borthwick, sent two paintings, one depicting
6S
"highland sheep" (Society of Sa
his powers, it is probably the most completely
successful work in this genre which this distin-
guished painter ever produced—rich and har-
monious in colour, charming in design, and
redolent throughout of that subtle mastery which
makes his work unique in modern British art.
E, DINBURGH.—The Society of Scottish
j Artists is nearing the close of the second
decade of its existence, and it has never
J better justified its place in the world of
art than by the collection of pictures, drawings,
and applied art recently shown in the galleries of
the Royal Scottish Academy. One can point to
stages in its career when the main interest lay in
the work of non-members. To-day it is otherwise.
The first aim of the society is " to stimulate the
younger artists to produce more original and im-
portant works," and the second proposition which
the society set before itself, of obtaining "interest-
ing and educative examples of various schools of
modern and, past art," has fallen very much into
the background. One reason for the new phase
doubtless is that the Academy has developed this
idea during recent years so strongly that it has
become less necessary for the younger society to
ish Artists) by Andrew douglas
continue in the same line. This also may have led
the society to strike out in a new direction by the
introduction on a scale of some importance of ex-
amples of various forms of applied art.
The new departure is justified, seeing that the
establishment of the Municipal College of Art has
opened wider the portals of education in the city,
and the time may not be distant when applied
art will have the galleries to itself for some
period of the year. Meantime the recent display
has served to draw public attention to the many
beautiful forms in which art may find suitable
expression. Apart from the loan examples by one
or two notable English artificers, the most im-
portant contributions included beautiful iron-work
by Thomas Hadden, a gesso panel by Margaret
Macdonald Mackintosh, enamels by J. Cromer
Watt, bookbinding by Miss J. E. Pagan 'and John
Macbeth, and stained glass panels and cartoons
by Douglas Strachan and R. Aiming Bell. Of the
five hundred and twenty-six exhibits nearly a
hundred were applied art.
The chairman of the council of the society, Mr.
A. E. Borthwick, sent two paintings, one depicting
6S