DOI issue:
No. 259 (October 1914)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0059
Studio-Talk
beginning only to learn and not to steal from them, of the distinguished personality of the artist, shows
Mr. Spackman was an architect prior to 1910, when also an important and very striking feature of Mr.
he took up painting, and it was not till two years Brangwyn's talent—the power he possesses, with
later that he started etching. He has exhibited at all his versatility, of adapting himself completely to
the Royal Academy in London, the Carnegie the medium of expression, or, to put it another
Institute, Pittsburg, and in other exhibitions here way, of subjugating the medium legitimately and
and in America. He was born at Cleveland, Ohio, entirely to his will. So that in all the multifarious
of English parents, but for some time past has settled branches of art and in all the varied technical
in London. processes in which he practises we find him
working always as to the manner born, and in this
We reproduce among our supplements this particular engraving using to the full all the
month a wood-engraving by Mr. Brangwyn en- resources of the wood-cutter's craft and turning it
titled Alms-houses, Dixmude. This place, spelt in to the expression of a subject nobly and powerfully
Flemish Dixmuyden, lies in the province of West conceived. _
Flanders, some thirteen miles or so south-east of
Ostend, and it must therefore have been if not Mr. Johnstone Baird, though now a denizen ot
actually at any rate very near to being the scene London, hails from Ayrshire and has lived most of
of the fighting in Belgium, that heroic country to his life in Glasgow. Before entering on his career
which our hearts go out in deepest sympathy and as an artist he practised for some time as a naval
admiration. This wood-cut, entirely characteristic architect, relinquishing that profession about ten
THE STORM FROM AN ETCHING BY CYRIL SPACKMAN
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beginning only to learn and not to steal from them, of the distinguished personality of the artist, shows
Mr. Spackman was an architect prior to 1910, when also an important and very striking feature of Mr.
he took up painting, and it was not till two years Brangwyn's talent—the power he possesses, with
later that he started etching. He has exhibited at all his versatility, of adapting himself completely to
the Royal Academy in London, the Carnegie the medium of expression, or, to put it another
Institute, Pittsburg, and in other exhibitions here way, of subjugating the medium legitimately and
and in America. He was born at Cleveland, Ohio, entirely to his will. So that in all the multifarious
of English parents, but for some time past has settled branches of art and in all the varied technical
in London. processes in which he practises we find him
working always as to the manner born, and in this
We reproduce among our supplements this particular engraving using to the full all the
month a wood-engraving by Mr. Brangwyn en- resources of the wood-cutter's craft and turning it
titled Alms-houses, Dixmude. This place, spelt in to the expression of a subject nobly and powerfully
Flemish Dixmuyden, lies in the province of West conceived. _
Flanders, some thirteen miles or so south-east of
Ostend, and it must therefore have been if not Mr. Johnstone Baird, though now a denizen ot
actually at any rate very near to being the scene London, hails from Ayrshire and has lived most of
of the fighting in Belgium, that heroic country to his life in Glasgow. Before entering on his career
which our hearts go out in deepest sympathy and as an artist he practised for some time as a naval
admiration. This wood-cut, entirely characteristic architect, relinquishing that profession about ten
THE STORM FROM AN ETCHING BY CYRIL SPACKMAN
54