DOI Heft:
No. 255 (July 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0166
Studio- Talk
"—
" toilers of THE ska" (Royal Scottish Academy■) by w. MARSHALL brown, a. k.s. \.
Mr. J. Whitelaw Hamilton has been particularly Mr. Edwin Alexander, and the late Miss Preston
successful in his Richmond Castle in conveying the Macgoun, while the black-and-white room contains
expression of solidity and strength, both by com- fine work by Sargent, Muirhead Bone, Orpen,
position and colour, and similar features in respect William Strang, and Charles Sims, including a
to colour distinguish his Fish-Curer's Yard, Eye- study for Mr. Sims's picture, The Archer. A. E.
mouth. Mr. W. Y. Macgregor's Street in Fuen-
terrabia vibrates with brilliant light and colour, and /—r~\ORONTO.—The Forty-second Annual Ex-
Mr. Robert Gibb in his Church and Monastery oj hibition of the Ontario Society of Artists
St. Francis has with great breadth of style expressed I has recently been held in this city,
the dignity of the pile of buildings which crowns This Society, the pioneer art associa-
the steep cliffs at Assisi. Mr. Robert Noble's tion of the province, was instituted in 1872,
Weir on the Tyne is an effective composition in and incorporated in 1877 and 1898. The roll of
cool colour, and the late Mr. Campbell Noble is members contains thirty-six names, of whom a
represented by one of his finest Dutch waterways, dozen are women artists, and as many more non-
Mr. James Paterson, with his customary versatility, members joined in this year's display. The out-
translates three different aspects of Nature, Mr. standing note was the work of the new school of
Mason Hunter exhibits a poetic version of Edin- younger painters. Under the leadership of Mr. A.
burgh Castle, and there are interesting landscapes Y. Jackson, who has worked in French studios,
by Mr. W. I). McKay, Mr. W. M. Frazer, Mr. some six or seven rising men have agreed to follow
George Houston, Mr. W. S. Macgeorge, Mr. Alex- the Norwegian-French protagonists of crude form
Roche, Mr. R. B. Nisbet, and Mr. Campbell and emphatic illumination. They use coarse canvas
Mitchell. Mr. Wm. Walls is effectively dramatic and paint with fat, flat brushes. The effect is that
in The Wolfs Long Howl from Oonalasha's Shore, of raised embroidery, or applique work, with sharp
an impressive night scene. contrasts of light and shade and crashing bars of
- colour. Whether this style of painting will become
In the water-colour room, in addition to a fine popular it is impossible to say : anyhow, as a feeling
series of drawings by the late Mr. Joseph Crawhall after forcible expression it is worthy of attention,
there is beautiful quality in work by Mr. R. B. -
Nisbet, Mr. Robert Burns, Mr. James Cadenhead, Turning to more orthodox paintings, Mr. W. M.
146
"—
" toilers of THE ska" (Royal Scottish Academy■) by w. MARSHALL brown, a. k.s. \.
Mr. J. Whitelaw Hamilton has been particularly Mr. Edwin Alexander, and the late Miss Preston
successful in his Richmond Castle in conveying the Macgoun, while the black-and-white room contains
expression of solidity and strength, both by com- fine work by Sargent, Muirhead Bone, Orpen,
position and colour, and similar features in respect William Strang, and Charles Sims, including a
to colour distinguish his Fish-Curer's Yard, Eye- study for Mr. Sims's picture, The Archer. A. E.
mouth. Mr. W. Y. Macgregor's Street in Fuen-
terrabia vibrates with brilliant light and colour, and /—r~\ORONTO.—The Forty-second Annual Ex-
Mr. Robert Gibb in his Church and Monastery oj hibition of the Ontario Society of Artists
St. Francis has with great breadth of style expressed I has recently been held in this city,
the dignity of the pile of buildings which crowns This Society, the pioneer art associa-
the steep cliffs at Assisi. Mr. Robert Noble's tion of the province, was instituted in 1872,
Weir on the Tyne is an effective composition in and incorporated in 1877 and 1898. The roll of
cool colour, and the late Mr. Campbell Noble is members contains thirty-six names, of whom a
represented by one of his finest Dutch waterways, dozen are women artists, and as many more non-
Mr. James Paterson, with his customary versatility, members joined in this year's display. The out-
translates three different aspects of Nature, Mr. standing note was the work of the new school of
Mason Hunter exhibits a poetic version of Edin- younger painters. Under the leadership of Mr. A.
burgh Castle, and there are interesting landscapes Y. Jackson, who has worked in French studios,
by Mr. W. I). McKay, Mr. W. M. Frazer, Mr. some six or seven rising men have agreed to follow
George Houston, Mr. W. S. Macgeorge, Mr. Alex- the Norwegian-French protagonists of crude form
Roche, Mr. R. B. Nisbet, and Mr. Campbell and emphatic illumination. They use coarse canvas
Mitchell. Mr. Wm. Walls is effectively dramatic and paint with fat, flat brushes. The effect is that
in The Wolfs Long Howl from Oonalasha's Shore, of raised embroidery, or applique work, with sharp
an impressive night scene. contrasts of light and shade and crashing bars of
- colour. Whether this style of painting will become
In the water-colour room, in addition to a fine popular it is impossible to say : anyhow, as a feeling
series of drawings by the late Mr. Joseph Crawhall after forcible expression it is worthy of attention,
there is beautiful quality in work by Mr. R. B. -
Nisbet, Mr. Robert Burns, Mr. James Cadenhead, Turning to more orthodox paintings, Mr. W. M.
146