DOI Heft:
No. 253 (May 1914)
DOI Artikel:Manson, James Bolivar: Mr. Geoffrey Blackwell's collection of modern pictures
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Mr. Geoffrey Blackwell's Collection of Modern Pictures
picture Windrush Valley, prove that the con-
tinued application of the formula results in the
elimination of nature and the triumph of empty
convention.
Mr. Muirhead Bone's delicate and incisive work
with pencil and needle, is represented in the
admirable pencil drawings, Soho Square (1910) and
Lisbon (1910), and by that remarkable tour de force
The Great Gantry etching of 1906.
A delicate example of Conder's fans and his
frankly artificial Swanage Bay are in the col-
lection. Mr. D. Y. Cameron's well-known paint-
ing Berwick-on-Tweed is obviously the work of
an etcher. Mr. Clausen stands mid-way between
Academicism and Impressionism. He has much
of the feeling of the latter, but has not the mastery
of colour-values characteristic of the painters of
that school. There are beautiful quality and
feeling in The Tree and in his glowing Tranquil
Sunset: September (1911). There is a landscape
by Mr. Harold Squire, in which the colour-
values are well observed and analysed. In his
two pictures Across the River and Dieppe Harbour
Mr. McEvoy finds a mood of nature very sympa-
thetic to himself. It is only possible just to
mention many of the other good things in the
collection. Mr. Glyn Philpot's Portrait of Mr.
Blackwell has his characteristic quality of paint.
It is an adequate likeness but superficial as a study
of character. There are Mr. Pennell's etchings
Dinner Time and The Great White Cloud; a
characteristically brilliant water-colour, The Green
Parasol, by Mr. J. S. Sargent; a slight drawing by
Mr. Walter Sickert; water-colours by Mr. Gerald
Chowne; drawings by Mr. John ; two slight but
beautiful water-colours by Mr. D. S. MacColl;
Studland Church, by Mr. W. W. Russell; The
Factory, by Mr. H. M. Livens; and other pictures.
The note of humour is provided by three carica-
tures by Max Beerbohm : the famous New English
Group, and separate witty caricatures of Messrs.
Steer and Tonks. J. B. M.
"swanage bay"
282
oil painting by charles conder
picture Windrush Valley, prove that the con-
tinued application of the formula results in the
elimination of nature and the triumph of empty
convention.
Mr. Muirhead Bone's delicate and incisive work
with pencil and needle, is represented in the
admirable pencil drawings, Soho Square (1910) and
Lisbon (1910), and by that remarkable tour de force
The Great Gantry etching of 1906.
A delicate example of Conder's fans and his
frankly artificial Swanage Bay are in the col-
lection. Mr. D. Y. Cameron's well-known paint-
ing Berwick-on-Tweed is obviously the work of
an etcher. Mr. Clausen stands mid-way between
Academicism and Impressionism. He has much
of the feeling of the latter, but has not the mastery
of colour-values characteristic of the painters of
that school. There are beautiful quality and
feeling in The Tree and in his glowing Tranquil
Sunset: September (1911). There is a landscape
by Mr. Harold Squire, in which the colour-
values are well observed and analysed. In his
two pictures Across the River and Dieppe Harbour
Mr. McEvoy finds a mood of nature very sympa-
thetic to himself. It is only possible just to
mention many of the other good things in the
collection. Mr. Glyn Philpot's Portrait of Mr.
Blackwell has his characteristic quality of paint.
It is an adequate likeness but superficial as a study
of character. There are Mr. Pennell's etchings
Dinner Time and The Great White Cloud; a
characteristically brilliant water-colour, The Green
Parasol, by Mr. J. S. Sargent; a slight drawing by
Mr. Walter Sickert; water-colours by Mr. Gerald
Chowne; drawings by Mr. John ; two slight but
beautiful water-colours by Mr. D. S. MacColl;
Studland Church, by Mr. W. W. Russell; The
Factory, by Mr. H. M. Livens; and other pictures.
The note of humour is provided by three carica-
tures by Max Beerbohm : the famous New English
Group, and separate witty caricatures of Messrs.
Steer and Tonks. J. B. M.
"swanage bay"
282
oil painting by charles conder