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Studio: international art — 58.1913

DOI Heft:
No. 242 (May 1913)
DOI Artikel:
Stodart-Walker, Archibald: The recent paintings of E. A. Walton, R.S.A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0287

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E. A. Walton, R.S.A.

such a'striking piece of decoration as is shown in scape, where atmosphere and tree and figure

The Portfolio, Mr. Walton's diploma picture in the blend in one tonal whole that sets to shame the

Royal Scottish Academy. tradition which made landscapes look as if they

More richly endowed perhaps than any other were interiors, as if they were mere designs in black
contemporary artist in scientific data as applied and white that had been coloured. The "sap "of
to painting, there is nothing experimental in Nature runs living and warm throughout every line
Mr. Walton's work. What he does he does from of the presentment. One feels the dew and the
a certain knowledge. It is all mapped out in warmth and the subtle intermixture of every element
his brain as clearly as a design in the brain of an that goes to the making of Nature. The ensemble
architect. He knows to a nicety the capacity is distinguished and convincing, but, more than
of paint to achieve certain results. It is this this, the discerning eye dwells with pleasure upon
scientific equipment in form and colour that gives many individual passages full of subtle render-
so much "authority" to his canvases, that im- ings that could only have been accomplished
presses one with their sureness and force. Yet, by a master observer of Nature, a master in the
though these canvases are scholarly and impressive, knowledge of paint and a master of the brush,
they are never merely academic, cold-blooded In such landscapes as The White Horse (Mr.
statements. They possess that impression of spon- J. J. Cowan) and Shadowed Pastures (acquired by
taneity which is absent from many of the so-called the Scottish Modern Arts Association and already
" scholarly" painters. reproduced in this magazine) one may dwell

Particularly is this true of his painting of land- long on these individual passages of beauty,

"THE WHITE HORSE" (OIL)

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(In the possession of J. J. Cozvan, Esq.)

BY E. A. WALTON, R.S.A.
 
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