DOI Heft:
No. 247 (October 1913)
DOI Artikel:Stodart-Walker, Archibald: The paintings of James Whitelaw Hamilton, A.R.S.A., R.S.W.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21208#0041
James Whitelaw Hamilton, A .R.S.A., R.S.JV.
the best are his nocturnes, such as the Night on
the Clyde and Night at the Harbour. The former
of these has already been reproduced in this
magazine (November 1901); the latter, a delicate
harmony in blue, aroused an unusual enthusiasm
amongst connoisseurs when exhibited at the Royal
Scottish Academy.
To those who only look for pictures that “ shriek,”
as a good many, especially amongst our modern
critics, do, there may be no message in the art of
Mr. Whitelaw Hamilton, as little message, indeed,
as in the refined scholarly art of men like Mr.
D. Y. Cameron, Mr. Lawton Wingate, and Mr.
Cadenhead; but to those whose eyes are sensitive
to beauty, who have the insight to be able to take
Nature as an intimate friend, and who rejoice in
free design and dignified expression, Mr. Hamilton
must certainly appeal. His fine sense of rhythm,
his note of joyousness, his splendid colour sense—
the great legacy of Scottish landscape painting—will
be evident to all those who have the eyes to see
and the knowledge to compare. Too diffident and
scholarly to be a pioneer or a “ spirit of revolt,”
yet Mr. Hamilton is not merely living on the
legacy of the past. He builds for himself and
advances yearly to the realisation of his own ideals
—and, although his name may not be familiar in
our mouths as a household word, yet he has earned
his reward in the appreciation and practical recogni-
tion of many who judge with caution and buy with
temerity—ending up with enthusiasm.
Miss H. C. Preston McGoun, who died at
Edinburgh on August 20, will be remembered as
a gifted and sympathetic portrayer of child-life in
the water-colour medium and also as the author of
many delightful pencil drawings illustrating Mr.
William Macgillivray’s “Reminiscences of Rural Life
in Scotland.” Miss McGoun was a member of the
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-colour.
“DEPARTURE OF THE BOATS” by J. WHITELAW HAMILTON
(In the possession of Provost Kidstoiis Trustees, Helensburgh)
19
the best are his nocturnes, such as the Night on
the Clyde and Night at the Harbour. The former
of these has already been reproduced in this
magazine (November 1901); the latter, a delicate
harmony in blue, aroused an unusual enthusiasm
amongst connoisseurs when exhibited at the Royal
Scottish Academy.
To those who only look for pictures that “ shriek,”
as a good many, especially amongst our modern
critics, do, there may be no message in the art of
Mr. Whitelaw Hamilton, as little message, indeed,
as in the refined scholarly art of men like Mr.
D. Y. Cameron, Mr. Lawton Wingate, and Mr.
Cadenhead; but to those whose eyes are sensitive
to beauty, who have the insight to be able to take
Nature as an intimate friend, and who rejoice in
free design and dignified expression, Mr. Hamilton
must certainly appeal. His fine sense of rhythm,
his note of joyousness, his splendid colour sense—
the great legacy of Scottish landscape painting—will
be evident to all those who have the eyes to see
and the knowledge to compare. Too diffident and
scholarly to be a pioneer or a “ spirit of revolt,”
yet Mr. Hamilton is not merely living on the
legacy of the past. He builds for himself and
advances yearly to the realisation of his own ideals
—and, although his name may not be familiar in
our mouths as a household word, yet he has earned
his reward in the appreciation and practical recogni-
tion of many who judge with caution and buy with
temerity—ending up with enthusiasm.
Miss H. C. Preston McGoun, who died at
Edinburgh on August 20, will be remembered as
a gifted and sympathetic portrayer of child-life in
the water-colour medium and also as the author of
many delightful pencil drawings illustrating Mr.
William Macgillivray’s “Reminiscences of Rural Life
in Scotland.” Miss McGoun was a member of the
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-colour.
“DEPARTURE OF THE BOATS” by J. WHITELAW HAMILTON
(In the possession of Provost Kidstoiis Trustees, Helensburgh)
19