DOI Heft:
No. 259 (October 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0064
Studio- Talk
GLASGOW.—Without venturing to say
that there is to-day a younger school
of painters at Glasgow likely to startle
the art world as forcibly as did the
impressionists a generation ago, it may safely be
affirmed that there is in this second city of the
British Isles a group of young artists vigorous
and independent in thought and effort, ready to
court public opinion without being unduly de-
pressed if it be adverse. There is encouragement
in contemporary success, time is on the side ot
the group, and the gods have the possibilities in
their keeping. If common aim was the only or
chief bond that held the impressionists together,
even this is not apparent among the later enthusiasts,
whose methods are as dissimilar as if their purposes
were antagonistic.
Individuality, a characteristic common to Glas-
gow men, both in the Fine and the Applied Arts,
is a quality that leadeth not always to immediate
success. In versatility also, there is risk of missing
portrait bust of h.r.h. the duke of connaught public favour, more readily secured by the artist
by frederick lessore
stags are worked solidly in browns and
golds of the palest hues, the foliage in
varying greens, the fruit in subtle reds,
purples and madders with trunk and
branches in bronze greens, and the little
rich flowers in divers hues.
Mr. Frederick Lessore recently re-
turned from Canada, where he spent
about nine months holding exhibitions
of his sculpture in the principal towns ot
the Dominion. Two of the busts in-
cluded in these exhibitions—those of
Lord Mount Stephen and Lord Strath-
cona—have been reproduced in these
pages early in the present year with a
report from our Montreal correspondent,
and we now give an illustration of his
bust of the Royal Governor-General,
which was modelled by the sculptor at
Ottawa. The colossal bronze statue of
Lord Mount Stephen which the Board
of the Canadian Pacific Railway com-
missioned Mr. Lessore to execute, has
been erected in the new terminus of the
railway at Montreal as a memorial to
their first President. Mr. Lessore's ex-
hibitions were visited by a very large
number of people and called forth many
expressions of appreciation. "persephone" (on.) by w. m. petrie
59
GLASGOW.—Without venturing to say
that there is to-day a younger school
of painters at Glasgow likely to startle
the art world as forcibly as did the
impressionists a generation ago, it may safely be
affirmed that there is in this second city of the
British Isles a group of young artists vigorous
and independent in thought and effort, ready to
court public opinion without being unduly de-
pressed if it be adverse. There is encouragement
in contemporary success, time is on the side ot
the group, and the gods have the possibilities in
their keeping. If common aim was the only or
chief bond that held the impressionists together,
even this is not apparent among the later enthusiasts,
whose methods are as dissimilar as if their purposes
were antagonistic.
Individuality, a characteristic common to Glas-
gow men, both in the Fine and the Applied Arts,
is a quality that leadeth not always to immediate
success. In versatility also, there is risk of missing
portrait bust of h.r.h. the duke of connaught public favour, more readily secured by the artist
by frederick lessore
stags are worked solidly in browns and
golds of the palest hues, the foliage in
varying greens, the fruit in subtle reds,
purples and madders with trunk and
branches in bronze greens, and the little
rich flowers in divers hues.
Mr. Frederick Lessore recently re-
turned from Canada, where he spent
about nine months holding exhibitions
of his sculpture in the principal towns ot
the Dominion. Two of the busts in-
cluded in these exhibitions—those of
Lord Mount Stephen and Lord Strath-
cona—have been reproduced in these
pages early in the present year with a
report from our Montreal correspondent,
and we now give an illustration of his
bust of the Royal Governor-General,
which was modelled by the sculptor at
Ottawa. The colossal bronze statue of
Lord Mount Stephen which the Board
of the Canadian Pacific Railway com-
missioned Mr. Lessore to execute, has
been erected in the new terminus of the
railway at Montreal as a memorial to
their first President. Mr. Lessore's ex-
hibitions were visited by a very large
number of people and called forth many
expressions of appreciation. "persephone" (on.) by w. m. petrie
59