DOI Heft:
No. 256 (August 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0255
Studio- Talk
power of response to the mood of nature which is
typical of a West Irishman. The picture The Last oj
the Corinthians has the effect upon the imagination
of good fiction. We cannot think of a painter whose
art appeals so much through a " literary " quality
which is yet in his case not to be confused with
pictorial story-telling.
Those people who are beginning to find the end-
less succession of etchings representing architecture
a little monotonous, should be grateful to Messrs.
Dowdeswell for introducing Mr. Clifford Addams
as an etcher. The artist displays inexhaustible
resource in the invention of composition, and has
a range of interests that is exciting ; and what is so
much to the point, in Bernhardt's Joan of An,
Dordrecht Cathedral, Herald Building, Broadway
N. Y. and The Van, Finchley, we have an etcher
who is entitled to take his rank at once somewhere
near the top. _
We reproduce an excellent drawing from a
sketch-book of Cambridge by Walter M. Keesey.
Though primarily an architect, he has devoted
himself to pencil, and his work in this medium is
characterised by admirable qualities of technique.
Mr. Keesey studied at South Kensington and is
now on the staff of the Architectural Association,
Westminster. Besides his work in lead-pencil he
has lately turned his attention to the copperplate
and has executed some etchings which evince
much feeling for purity of line and skill in com-
position. In February last he was elected an
associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers
and at the recent exhibition of that society was
represented by four works, of which Westminster,
one of his best plates, together with two others,
was well hung at the Royal Academy this year.
The Baillie Gallery held in June and July an
exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Mr.
Austin O. Spare. Mr. Spare is one of our most
finished pen-draughtsmen with considerable power
of imaginative invention, and a taste for satire.
His illustrations are among the best of their kind
to-day ; but depression and mistrust of beauty too
often have seemed to prevail as the spirit of his
work. In the recent exhibition these clouds had,
power of response to the mood of nature which is
typical of a West Irishman. The picture The Last oj
the Corinthians has the effect upon the imagination
of good fiction. We cannot think of a painter whose
art appeals so much through a " literary " quality
which is yet in his case not to be confused with
pictorial story-telling.
Those people who are beginning to find the end-
less succession of etchings representing architecture
a little monotonous, should be grateful to Messrs.
Dowdeswell for introducing Mr. Clifford Addams
as an etcher. The artist displays inexhaustible
resource in the invention of composition, and has
a range of interests that is exciting ; and what is so
much to the point, in Bernhardt's Joan of An,
Dordrecht Cathedral, Herald Building, Broadway
N. Y. and The Van, Finchley, we have an etcher
who is entitled to take his rank at once somewhere
near the top. _
We reproduce an excellent drawing from a
sketch-book of Cambridge by Walter M. Keesey.
Though primarily an architect, he has devoted
himself to pencil, and his work in this medium is
characterised by admirable qualities of technique.
Mr. Keesey studied at South Kensington and is
now on the staff of the Architectural Association,
Westminster. Besides his work in lead-pencil he
has lately turned his attention to the copperplate
and has executed some etchings which evince
much feeling for purity of line and skill in com-
position. In February last he was elected an
associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers
and at the recent exhibition of that society was
represented by four works, of which Westminster,
one of his best plates, together with two others,
was well hung at the Royal Academy this year.
The Baillie Gallery held in June and July an
exhibition of the paintings and drawings of Mr.
Austin O. Spare. Mr. Spare is one of our most
finished pen-draughtsmen with considerable power
of imaginative invention, and a taste for satire.
His illustrations are among the best of their kind
to-day ; but depression and mistrust of beauty too
often have seemed to prevail as the spirit of his
work. In the recent exhibition these clouds had,