DOI issue:
No. 253 (May 1914)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21209#0326
Studio- Talk
Sally Brass, Mr. James S. Hill's Hope Cove, South Mr. Gore for a public gallery, the net proceeds to
Devon, Mr. Hillyard Swinstead's The White Cliff, be given to Mrs. Gore. Mr. A. B. Clifton, of 24
Seaford, Mr. Wynne Apperley's The Arch of Titus, Bury Street, St. James's, is acting as hon. treasurer.
Rome and Mr. Norman Hardy's Nets and Fish. Mr. Gore died on March 2 7 at the age of thirty-
- five.
Sir William B. Richmond's recent exhibition -
in the Fine Art Society's Galleries suffered from Mr. Muirhead Bone in his recent exhibition at
an error in point of taste in the choice of black Messrs. Colnaghi and Obach's Galleries once more
frames for several pictures quite unsuited to them, proved himself a master of incomparable skill. His
It was a surprise to find this particular kind of successes are still made where he first made them,
mistake made by Sir William Richmond. His in direct pencil drawings. The finer the point
paintings of Umbria and Assisi are peculiarly full employed the more he excels. He has executed no
of a feeling for Italy, and they all exhibit the re- pastel, wash, or water colour that can be set beside
finement of execution which is characteristic of the pencil drawings Boats on the Zattere, Venice ; The
their author. Variety of composition and trained Port of Genoa ; or The Castle of St. Angelo, Home.
perception of colour prevented monotony in panels
representing the same type of scenery under "1 "v IRMINGHAM.—In the brief note which
unchanging skies throughout the exhibition. I Jf appeared in the last number of The
- I I Studio in relation to the Birmingham
The landscapes of Mr. Alfred W. Rich—recently A—^ Royal Society of Artists reference was
exhibited at the Baillie Gallery—always lose in made to the demolition of the old building in
power from a want of austerity of
colour corresponding to an impec-
cable draughtsmanship and a sen-
sitive appreciation of tone. Seen by
the side of the art of De Wint, which
we imagine must have been an in-
fluence in the painter's life, they
become almost pretty in effect.
This may be the high-road to ex-
treme popularity, but it does not
necessarily lead to the artist express-
ing himself most fully. In the case
of a painter with such an exceptional
genius for water-colour as Mr. Rich
possesses his admirers, first among
whom we count ourselves, cannot
fail to bemoan compromises made
with those who do not care for the
best, all the more so when in the
same exhibition that painter made
it quite clear that he has hardly any
living rival in the economy and re-
source with which he handles pure
water-colour.
In consequence of Mr. Spencer
F. Gore's death the exhibition of his
work which was to have been held
this season has been postponed till
the autumn. In the meantime an
influential committee invites sub-
scriptions with the object of pur-
. . . . , "the old portico of the birmingham royal 'society of
chasing a representative work by artists." from a pastel by Joseph e. southall
319
Sally Brass, Mr. James S. Hill's Hope Cove, South Mr. Gore for a public gallery, the net proceeds to
Devon, Mr. Hillyard Swinstead's The White Cliff, be given to Mrs. Gore. Mr. A. B. Clifton, of 24
Seaford, Mr. Wynne Apperley's The Arch of Titus, Bury Street, St. James's, is acting as hon. treasurer.
Rome and Mr. Norman Hardy's Nets and Fish. Mr. Gore died on March 2 7 at the age of thirty-
- five.
Sir William B. Richmond's recent exhibition -
in the Fine Art Society's Galleries suffered from Mr. Muirhead Bone in his recent exhibition at
an error in point of taste in the choice of black Messrs. Colnaghi and Obach's Galleries once more
frames for several pictures quite unsuited to them, proved himself a master of incomparable skill. His
It was a surprise to find this particular kind of successes are still made where he first made them,
mistake made by Sir William Richmond. His in direct pencil drawings. The finer the point
paintings of Umbria and Assisi are peculiarly full employed the more he excels. He has executed no
of a feeling for Italy, and they all exhibit the re- pastel, wash, or water colour that can be set beside
finement of execution which is characteristic of the pencil drawings Boats on the Zattere, Venice ; The
their author. Variety of composition and trained Port of Genoa ; or The Castle of St. Angelo, Home.
perception of colour prevented monotony in panels
representing the same type of scenery under "1 "v IRMINGHAM.—In the brief note which
unchanging skies throughout the exhibition. I Jf appeared in the last number of The
- I I Studio in relation to the Birmingham
The landscapes of Mr. Alfred W. Rich—recently A—^ Royal Society of Artists reference was
exhibited at the Baillie Gallery—always lose in made to the demolition of the old building in
power from a want of austerity of
colour corresponding to an impec-
cable draughtsmanship and a sen-
sitive appreciation of tone. Seen by
the side of the art of De Wint, which
we imagine must have been an in-
fluence in the painter's life, they
become almost pretty in effect.
This may be the high-road to ex-
treme popularity, but it does not
necessarily lead to the artist express-
ing himself most fully. In the case
of a painter with such an exceptional
genius for water-colour as Mr. Rich
possesses his admirers, first among
whom we count ourselves, cannot
fail to bemoan compromises made
with those who do not care for the
best, all the more so when in the
same exhibition that painter made
it quite clear that he has hardly any
living rival in the economy and re-
source with which he handles pure
water-colour.
In consequence of Mr. Spencer
F. Gore's death the exhibition of his
work which was to have been held
this season has been postponed till
the autumn. In the meantime an
influential committee invites sub-
scriptions with the object of pur-
. . . . , "the old portico of the birmingham royal 'society of
chasing a representative work by artists." from a pastel by Joseph e. southall
319