DOI Heft:
No. 257 (September 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0333
Studio-Talk
ticular to the powerfu and individual work of
Mr. A. Y. Jackson, formerly of Montreal, but now
of Toronto. There can be no doubt that Mr.
Jackson is a coming man. He not only has an
admirable colour sense and a fine feeling for
decorative design, but, what is more important, he
has something worth while to say. His expression
is eminently personal. It is at once simple, direct,
and forcible, and he is the first Canadian artist to
attempt with real success the interpretation of the
more distinctly typical Canadian landscape in
moods other than that of winter.
For the past year Mr. Jackson has sought and
found inspiration in the lonely places of Northern
Ontario. His sketches and pictures suggest poeti-
cally, yet strongly and truthfully, the grim silent
beauty and bigness of this wilderness. Some ot
the paintings are of very high pictorial quality, and
notably A Squall on Georgian Bay and The Land
of the Leaning Pine, exhibited in Montreal this
spring. The former, here produced, is an arrange-
ment of dark greens and violets, rather daringly
contrasted yet entirely harmonious. The move-
ment m the water is finely suggested, while the work
as a whole displays largeness of vision.
Miss Mabel May, Mr. Randolph Hewton, Mr.
Arthur Rosaire, and Mr. Albert H. Robinson are
also young Montreal artists of original outlook and
considerable promise. Among the work shown by
more mature painters, Maurice Cullen's Frost and
Snow and The Lee Harvest were greatly admired for
their truth and tonal qualities, and the contributions
of Mr. Brymner, President of the Royal Canadian
Academy, as usual attracted attention.
H. M. L.
TORONTO.—The season of 1913-14 was
remarkable for artistic activity in the
"Queen City" of Canada. The exhi-
bition of the Ontario Society of Artists,
already noticed in these pages, led the way, and
was followed by a very admirable display of
Japanese Prints at the Grange—the temporary
home of the Toronto Art Museum, and formerly
the residence of the late Prof. Goldwin Smith. In
the grounds a permanent gallery of the Fine Arts
" OCTOBER"
(Art Association of Montreal)
FROM AN OIL PAINTING BY WILLIAM BRYMNER, P.R.C.A.
313
ticular to the powerfu and individual work of
Mr. A. Y. Jackson, formerly of Montreal, but now
of Toronto. There can be no doubt that Mr.
Jackson is a coming man. He not only has an
admirable colour sense and a fine feeling for
decorative design, but, what is more important, he
has something worth while to say. His expression
is eminently personal. It is at once simple, direct,
and forcible, and he is the first Canadian artist to
attempt with real success the interpretation of the
more distinctly typical Canadian landscape in
moods other than that of winter.
For the past year Mr. Jackson has sought and
found inspiration in the lonely places of Northern
Ontario. His sketches and pictures suggest poeti-
cally, yet strongly and truthfully, the grim silent
beauty and bigness of this wilderness. Some ot
the paintings are of very high pictorial quality, and
notably A Squall on Georgian Bay and The Land
of the Leaning Pine, exhibited in Montreal this
spring. The former, here produced, is an arrange-
ment of dark greens and violets, rather daringly
contrasted yet entirely harmonious. The move-
ment m the water is finely suggested, while the work
as a whole displays largeness of vision.
Miss Mabel May, Mr. Randolph Hewton, Mr.
Arthur Rosaire, and Mr. Albert H. Robinson are
also young Montreal artists of original outlook and
considerable promise. Among the work shown by
more mature painters, Maurice Cullen's Frost and
Snow and The Lee Harvest were greatly admired for
their truth and tonal qualities, and the contributions
of Mr. Brymner, President of the Royal Canadian
Academy, as usual attracted attention.
H. M. L.
TORONTO.—The season of 1913-14 was
remarkable for artistic activity in the
"Queen City" of Canada. The exhi-
bition of the Ontario Society of Artists,
already noticed in these pages, led the way, and
was followed by a very admirable display of
Japanese Prints at the Grange—the temporary
home of the Toronto Art Museum, and formerly
the residence of the late Prof. Goldwin Smith. In
the grounds a permanent gallery of the Fine Arts
" OCTOBER"
(Art Association of Montreal)
FROM AN OIL PAINTING BY WILLIAM BRYMNER, P.R.C.A.
313