DOI issue:
No. 255 (July 1914)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0160
Studio-Talk
Miss Miriam Deane, whose wood-print Home- work to one nationality, and more than half of the
wards we reproduce in as nearly as possible facsimile beautiful sculpture hall is occupied by exhibits of
colour and size, is a recent recruit to the Society of the work of Belgian sculptors. A good deal of it
Graver-Printers in Colour whose annual exhibition is on a small scale, but there is one piece by the
held a few weeks ago at the Manzi-Joyant galleries late Constantin Meunier that touches the imagina-
in Bedford Street contained several examples of tion, and is full of the deep realities of life. Le
her work. Using cherry-wood for her blocks and Grisou shows a miner lying stiff and stark with
printing them as a rule on Japanese paper, she upturned face, while a woman bends over him with
aims at simplification and limits her work to as few an intent expression. It is a revelation of the
blocks as possible, rarely exceeding three or four, tragedy of death and the depth of human sympathy
and in printing she finds it easier to produce flat that has a powerful appeal. Another large piece
tones with a small roller than with broad brushes, by the Comte de Lalaing shows two tigers busy
Miss Deane lived for some years in Munich and demolishing a captured deer, and it is fully ex-
studied in the art schools there, pressive of power and ferocity. Other outstanding
works are the Femmes de Pecheurs of Pierre Braecke,
DINBURGH.—Continuing the practice Rombaux's £pouvantail, Rousseau's L'Offrande,
instituted by Sir James Guthrie the Royal Vanderstappen's David, and among the Scottish
Scottish Academy has this year thrown its work, Dr. MacGillivray's Ehrtta, a beautiful treat-
doors wide open to invited pictures and ment of a portrait bust,
sculpture. A departure in the latter medium of -
art expression has been made in confining the A very considerable portion of the galleries
E
RICHMOND CASTLE" (Royal Scottish Academy) BY J.~WHITEI.AW HAMILTON, A.R.S.A.
140
Miss Miriam Deane, whose wood-print Home- work to one nationality, and more than half of the
wards we reproduce in as nearly as possible facsimile beautiful sculpture hall is occupied by exhibits of
colour and size, is a recent recruit to the Society of the work of Belgian sculptors. A good deal of it
Graver-Printers in Colour whose annual exhibition is on a small scale, but there is one piece by the
held a few weeks ago at the Manzi-Joyant galleries late Constantin Meunier that touches the imagina-
in Bedford Street contained several examples of tion, and is full of the deep realities of life. Le
her work. Using cherry-wood for her blocks and Grisou shows a miner lying stiff and stark with
printing them as a rule on Japanese paper, she upturned face, while a woman bends over him with
aims at simplification and limits her work to as few an intent expression. It is a revelation of the
blocks as possible, rarely exceeding three or four, tragedy of death and the depth of human sympathy
and in printing she finds it easier to produce flat that has a powerful appeal. Another large piece
tones with a small roller than with broad brushes, by the Comte de Lalaing shows two tigers busy
Miss Deane lived for some years in Munich and demolishing a captured deer, and it is fully ex-
studied in the art schools there, pressive of power and ferocity. Other outstanding
works are the Femmes de Pecheurs of Pierre Braecke,
DINBURGH.—Continuing the practice Rombaux's £pouvantail, Rousseau's L'Offrande,
instituted by Sir James Guthrie the Royal Vanderstappen's David, and among the Scottish
Scottish Academy has this year thrown its work, Dr. MacGillivray's Ehrtta, a beautiful treat-
doors wide open to invited pictures and ment of a portrait bust,
sculpture. A departure in the latter medium of -
art expression has been made in confining the A very considerable portion of the galleries
E
RICHMOND CASTLE" (Royal Scottish Academy) BY J.~WHITEI.AW HAMILTON, A.R.S.A.
140