DOI Heft:
No. 241 (April 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0241
Studio- Talk
instrument which, in right hands, a pencil always There is hardly a modern artist with a more
proves itself to be. learned style in the draughtsmanship of animals
than Mr. J. R. K. Duff, who has also been ex-
An exhibition of Mr. F. H. S. Shepherd's at the hibiting at Messrs. Marchant's ; but the " pastorals "
Goupil Galleries of Messrs. W. Marchant and Co., in this particular exhibition suffered from the in-
showed the delightful painter of interior genre still vention of atmospheric effects, which failed to
improving his technique. Mr. Shepherd has re- impress us, to the same extent as the studies of
mained true to this class of subject where others animal life to which they supplied the background,
have played with it and passed on. But, as the that nature had been directly referred to at every
great predecessors in this field, the " Little Masters " step,
of Holland, proved, it is a class of subject which
surrenders its most beautiful truths only to the The Women's International Art Club's fourteenth
painters who besiege it with a lifetime's devotion, exhibition, which concluded at the Grafton Galleries
It is a field, as we have before this pointed out, in at the end of March, contained some attractive
which the modern science of painting can reveal, exhibits. Many women, as seems natural, attack the
in opposition to the work of the old masters, the problem of flower painting and still-life, and yet,
power to express much that was beyond the range judging by this exhibition, it is not in this vein that
of their method and restricted point of view. Mr. feminine talent expresses itself with the vitality with
Shepherd also exhibited admirable water-colour which some of the best of their masculine contem-
drawings of Italian scenes, but in these the poraries have revived this . branch of painting,
advantages of specialising were not so evident as in Perhaps woman's impressionableness makes her a
the interior subjects in oil referred to. fine impressionist—there is the classic example of
FROM A DRAWING IN CHALK AND WATER-COLOUR BY AVERIL M. BURLEIGH
instrument which, in right hands, a pencil always There is hardly a modern artist with a more
proves itself to be. learned style in the draughtsmanship of animals
than Mr. J. R. K. Duff, who has also been ex-
An exhibition of Mr. F. H. S. Shepherd's at the hibiting at Messrs. Marchant's ; but the " pastorals "
Goupil Galleries of Messrs. W. Marchant and Co., in this particular exhibition suffered from the in-
showed the delightful painter of interior genre still vention of atmospheric effects, which failed to
improving his technique. Mr. Shepherd has re- impress us, to the same extent as the studies of
mained true to this class of subject where others animal life to which they supplied the background,
have played with it and passed on. But, as the that nature had been directly referred to at every
great predecessors in this field, the " Little Masters " step,
of Holland, proved, it is a class of subject which
surrenders its most beautiful truths only to the The Women's International Art Club's fourteenth
painters who besiege it with a lifetime's devotion, exhibition, which concluded at the Grafton Galleries
It is a field, as we have before this pointed out, in at the end of March, contained some attractive
which the modern science of painting can reveal, exhibits. Many women, as seems natural, attack the
in opposition to the work of the old masters, the problem of flower painting and still-life, and yet,
power to express much that was beyond the range judging by this exhibition, it is not in this vein that
of their method and restricted point of view. Mr. feminine talent expresses itself with the vitality with
Shepherd also exhibited admirable water-colour which some of the best of their masculine contem-
drawings of Italian scenes, but in these the poraries have revived this . branch of painting,
advantages of specialising were not so evident as in Perhaps woman's impressionableness makes her a
the interior subjects in oil referred to. fine impressionist—there is the classic example of
FROM A DRAWING IN CHALK AND WATER-COLOUR BY AVERIL M. BURLEIGH