DOI issue:
No. 253 (May 1914)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21209#0341
Studio- Talk
"winter" by yamamoto shunkyo
(Seventh Mombusho Art Exhibition)
sidered a British sculptor. He received his early
training in Malta, and having won a scholarship
went to complete his studies in Rome, where he
has recently been appointed Director of the
British Academy of Fine Arts. S. B.
COPENHAGEN.—There is little history
attached to the work by the Danish
sculptor, Edvard Eriksen, shown on the
preceding page. The late M. Carl
Jacobsen, an eminent brewer and most munificent
of art patrons, who presented to his native city
countless art treasures and a magnificent museum,
took an artistic interest in the ballet of the Danish
State Theatre, and he commissioned several
sculptors to perpetuate some of these graceful
dancers, amongst them the prima ballerina in a
ballet to which Andersen's famous fairy tale
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supplied the motive. The artist has acquitted him-
self exceedingly well of his task ; the little maiden
sits on the big stone as if she had just emerged from
the sea, and there is over her that pathetic wistful
look which answers so well to one's conception of
Hans Christian Andersen's mermaid. G. B.
TOKYO.—The Seventh Mombusho (De-
partment of Education) Art Exhibition
was recently held in Uyeno Park, and
later the works were taken to Kyoto and
shown in Okazaki Park. Daily thousands of people
"tranquillity in the winter forest"
by komuro suiun
(Seventh Mombusho Art Exhibition J
"winter" by yamamoto shunkyo
(Seventh Mombusho Art Exhibition)
sidered a British sculptor. He received his early
training in Malta, and having won a scholarship
went to complete his studies in Rome, where he
has recently been appointed Director of the
British Academy of Fine Arts. S. B.
COPENHAGEN.—There is little history
attached to the work by the Danish
sculptor, Edvard Eriksen, shown on the
preceding page. The late M. Carl
Jacobsen, an eminent brewer and most munificent
of art patrons, who presented to his native city
countless art treasures and a magnificent museum,
took an artistic interest in the ballet of the Danish
State Theatre, and he commissioned several
sculptors to perpetuate some of these graceful
dancers, amongst them the prima ballerina in a
ballet to which Andersen's famous fairy tale
334
supplied the motive. The artist has acquitted him-
self exceedingly well of his task ; the little maiden
sits on the big stone as if she had just emerged from
the sea, and there is over her that pathetic wistful
look which answers so well to one's conception of
Hans Christian Andersen's mermaid. G. B.
TOKYO.—The Seventh Mombusho (De-
partment of Education) Art Exhibition
was recently held in Uyeno Park, and
later the works were taken to Kyoto and
shown in Okazaki Park. Daily thousands of people
"tranquillity in the winter forest"
by komuro suiun
(Seventh Mombusho Art Exhibition J