DOI Heft:
No. 255 (July 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0164
Studio- Talk
Munnoch, Miss Sara McGregor, and Miss Dorothy
Johnstone. _
The Children of Lir, by Mr. John I )uncan, is an
excursion into Celtic myth; the children driven
forth on the western seas as wild swans, form the
centre of a beautifully executed design in which
every line is fitly placed to form a harmonious
composition, and the colour-scheme has a symbolic
significance. Mr. Stanley Cursitor's Twilight, a
large picture showing a family group of live persons
seated by an open window, through which one has
a glimpse of the twinkling lights of a great city,
warrants the ambitious nature of the effort by one
who was quite recently a student at the Art College,
and the Academy has fitly recognised this by
giving it a leading place in one of the rooms. Mr.
Charles H. Mackie's three contributions are all
landscape genre, two of them of brilliantly corus-
cating colour, the third a village dance by moon-
light, in which the effect of motion is happily
realised. Mr. George Smith, hitherto only known
as an animal painter, enters on a new field in the
Vegetable Market, Bruges, in which the virility
which characterises his other work is abundantly
manifest not only in the strength of its colour but
its light and shade. The CaLet Ouoi Mr. Gemmell
Hutchison, not quite accurate in its title, seeing
that the two fisher-girls are carrying fish and not
oysters, is the fullest realisation he has yet achieved
of an open-air effect with brilliant sunshine and a
strong breeze swaying the figures. Mr. Marshall
Brown also depicts fisher-life successfully in his
Toilers of the Sea, with men and women carrying
ashore the harvest of fish from the beached boats.
It contains greater purity of colour than he has
hitherto been accustomed to use. Mr. Robert
Burns's Loot is a clever study of the nude, the
woman seated on a bed strewn with other spoils of
war. Mr. P. W. Adam contributes a further series
of three interiors, each of them distinguished by
their refined colour harmonies and artistic arrange-
ment of objects. _
In the domain of pure landscape Mr. J. Lawton
Wingate has produced nothing finer than Sunset on
the Hills, a moorland over which falls the subdued
light filtered through a heavy bank of clouds. The
intense autumnal glow of sunset on a forest of
birches among the mountains is realised with great
unity by Mr. James Cadenhead in his Late Harvest,
a title not quite descriptive if literally applied.
" SUNSET ON THE HILLS NEAR EDZELL
144
(Royal Scottish Academy)
BY J. LAWTON WINGATE, R.S.A.
Munnoch, Miss Sara McGregor, and Miss Dorothy
Johnstone. _
The Children of Lir, by Mr. John I )uncan, is an
excursion into Celtic myth; the children driven
forth on the western seas as wild swans, form the
centre of a beautifully executed design in which
every line is fitly placed to form a harmonious
composition, and the colour-scheme has a symbolic
significance. Mr. Stanley Cursitor's Twilight, a
large picture showing a family group of live persons
seated by an open window, through which one has
a glimpse of the twinkling lights of a great city,
warrants the ambitious nature of the effort by one
who was quite recently a student at the Art College,
and the Academy has fitly recognised this by
giving it a leading place in one of the rooms. Mr.
Charles H. Mackie's three contributions are all
landscape genre, two of them of brilliantly corus-
cating colour, the third a village dance by moon-
light, in which the effect of motion is happily
realised. Mr. George Smith, hitherto only known
as an animal painter, enters on a new field in the
Vegetable Market, Bruges, in which the virility
which characterises his other work is abundantly
manifest not only in the strength of its colour but
its light and shade. The CaLet Ouoi Mr. Gemmell
Hutchison, not quite accurate in its title, seeing
that the two fisher-girls are carrying fish and not
oysters, is the fullest realisation he has yet achieved
of an open-air effect with brilliant sunshine and a
strong breeze swaying the figures. Mr. Marshall
Brown also depicts fisher-life successfully in his
Toilers of the Sea, with men and women carrying
ashore the harvest of fish from the beached boats.
It contains greater purity of colour than he has
hitherto been accustomed to use. Mr. Robert
Burns's Loot is a clever study of the nude, the
woman seated on a bed strewn with other spoils of
war. Mr. P. W. Adam contributes a further series
of three interiors, each of them distinguished by
their refined colour harmonies and artistic arrange-
ment of objects. _
In the domain of pure landscape Mr. J. Lawton
Wingate has produced nothing finer than Sunset on
the Hills, a moorland over which falls the subdued
light filtered through a heavy bank of clouds. The
intense autumnal glow of sunset on a forest of
birches among the mountains is realised with great
unity by Mr. James Cadenhead in his Late Harvest,
a title not quite descriptive if literally applied.
" SUNSET ON THE HILLS NEAR EDZELL
144
(Royal Scottish Academy)
BY J. LAWTON WINGATE, R.S.A.