DOI Heft:
No. 255 (July 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0156
Studio- Talk
Orpen's Miss Muriel Wilson; Mr. Henry A. A few of the things offered were subject to a reserve
Payne's Mrs. Leicester; Miss Flora Lion's Baby fixed by the artist and some of these were not dis-
and Mr. Reginald Wilenski's Mrs. Barnwell stand posed of, but in other cases where no reserve
out from the mass and by their vitality and skill was fixed there was spirited bidding, a pastel of
afford welcome relief from an exhibition otherwise moderate size by Mr. Tonks fetching over ^30.
depressingly devoid of the evidences of inspiration. The sale was conducted by Mr. William Marchant
- and realised upwards of ^300.
The Walpole Gallery is the new name of the -
small gallery at 47 Albemarle Street, and it looked An artist who deserves much more recognition
very fascinating in its carefully selected grey wall- than he has received is Mr. Robert Gregory who
scheme as a background for a collection of has been exhibiting at the Chenil Gallery, Chelsea.
Mr. Gerald F. Kelly's Burmese Sketches exhibited This artist's drawing lacks assurance even in its own
there a few weeks ago. Slight as these were in vein, but all his pictures are composed with a rare
many cases they displayed much charm of colour art of expressing design in nature while at the same
and a deep feeling for their subject. Mr. Kelly's time retaining that sense of atmosphere which is so
work generally has been under observation in essential to the poetry of the moods of nature.
London for some time as among the most inter- This latter is perhaps a gift which no imaginative
esting shown by younger men, but important interpreter of Irish landscape could be without,
as are his finished com-
positions, they perhaps in
every case lack something,
most painter-like in cha-
racter, which he is able to
impart to the execution of
these studies of single
figures done absolutely
direct from Nature and
not touched again.
At the Goupil Gallery in
Regent Street last month
an interesting event was
the exhibition and subse-
quent sale by auction of a
number of works given by
artists in aid of a fund now
being raised to defray the
initial expenses of the
Spencer Frederick Gore
Memorial Exhibition,
which is to be held at the
galleries of the Royal
Society of British Artists
in Suffolk Street, next
January, under the
auspices of the New Eng-
lish Art Club. The works
sold numbered between
sixty and seventy and were
contributed by an equal
number of artists, in-
cluding many prominent
members or supporters of
the New English Art Club. "the interruption" (Npai English Art Club) by e. grace wheatley
136
Orpen's Miss Muriel Wilson; Mr. Henry A. A few of the things offered were subject to a reserve
Payne's Mrs. Leicester; Miss Flora Lion's Baby fixed by the artist and some of these were not dis-
and Mr. Reginald Wilenski's Mrs. Barnwell stand posed of, but in other cases where no reserve
out from the mass and by their vitality and skill was fixed there was spirited bidding, a pastel of
afford welcome relief from an exhibition otherwise moderate size by Mr. Tonks fetching over ^30.
depressingly devoid of the evidences of inspiration. The sale was conducted by Mr. William Marchant
- and realised upwards of ^300.
The Walpole Gallery is the new name of the -
small gallery at 47 Albemarle Street, and it looked An artist who deserves much more recognition
very fascinating in its carefully selected grey wall- than he has received is Mr. Robert Gregory who
scheme as a background for a collection of has been exhibiting at the Chenil Gallery, Chelsea.
Mr. Gerald F. Kelly's Burmese Sketches exhibited This artist's drawing lacks assurance even in its own
there a few weeks ago. Slight as these were in vein, but all his pictures are composed with a rare
many cases they displayed much charm of colour art of expressing design in nature while at the same
and a deep feeling for their subject. Mr. Kelly's time retaining that sense of atmosphere which is so
work generally has been under observation in essential to the poetry of the moods of nature.
London for some time as among the most inter- This latter is perhaps a gift which no imaginative
esting shown by younger men, but important interpreter of Irish landscape could be without,
as are his finished com-
positions, they perhaps in
every case lack something,
most painter-like in cha-
racter, which he is able to
impart to the execution of
these studies of single
figures done absolutely
direct from Nature and
not touched again.
At the Goupil Gallery in
Regent Street last month
an interesting event was
the exhibition and subse-
quent sale by auction of a
number of works given by
artists in aid of a fund now
being raised to defray the
initial expenses of the
Spencer Frederick Gore
Memorial Exhibition,
which is to be held at the
galleries of the Royal
Society of British Artists
in Suffolk Street, next
January, under the
auspices of the New Eng-
lish Art Club. The works
sold numbered between
sixty and seventy and were
contributed by an equal
number of artists, in-
cluding many prominent
members or supporters of
the New English Art Club. "the interruption" (Npai English Art Club) by e. grace wheatley
136