DOI issue:
No. 261 (December 1914)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0223
Studio- Talk
my article on this year's exhibition of the Glasgow
Institute, is an excellent example on account of its
breadth and freshness and it is interesting also as
a presentment of the talented woman artist whose
graceful drawings have often figured in these pages
and to whom we owe in particular the charming
series called " Seven Happy Days." Mr. Mac-
kenzie's versatility has also expressed itself with com-
mendable results in the use of the etching-needle, as
witness his Cathedral To7ver, Bruges, reproduced
in the recent Special Number of The Studio on
" Modern Etchings, Mezzotints and Engravings."
Mr. D. Broadfoot Carter, ably represented by
the clever Indian Ink drawing, An Old Vagabond,
has had a busy and varied career. Like most
Glasgow artists his initiation to Art was by way of
the celebrated School of Art that helps to make the
city distinguished; like many, he began a pro-
fessional career as a lithographer; like not a few,
he studied in Paris and finally settled in London
where book illustration and poster designing absorb
much of his attention. With limited medium and
restricted line, he obtains convincing effect, the
absence of colour is unremembered in the vigour
that characterises the work. J. T.
By the death of Sir Francis Powell, which took
place at his residence, Tor Aluinn, Dunoon, on
October 17, Scottish Art has suffered a severe loss,
for although this distinguished water-colour painter
was not a Scot by birth, having been born at
Manchester, his long association with Scotland
and the prominent part he played in the progress
of his favourite medium and of art generally on
this side of the border justify us in claiming him
as " one of ours." He was an active promoter and
the first president of the Royal Scottish Society of
Painters in Water-Colours, the foundation of which
is an important landmark in the history of the
modern school of Scottish art. The Society was
established more than thirty years ago on the lines of
the Old Water-Colour Society in England, of which
Sir Francis became an Associate in 1867 and a full
member in 1876; it became a "Royal" Society in
1889, and in 1893 its first president was knighted.
A few weeks before the death of Sir Francis
Mr. H. S. Hopwood, an associate of the Old Water-
Colour Society, died under tragic circumstances at
Edinburgh at the comparatively early age of fifty-
four. His work, which had many admirers on both
sides of the border, was the subject of an article in
this magazine in February 1910.
'a canal in Venice" (i>astel)
220
by j. hamilton mackenzie, a.r.s.a. etc.
my article on this year's exhibition of the Glasgow
Institute, is an excellent example on account of its
breadth and freshness and it is interesting also as
a presentment of the talented woman artist whose
graceful drawings have often figured in these pages
and to whom we owe in particular the charming
series called " Seven Happy Days." Mr. Mac-
kenzie's versatility has also expressed itself with com-
mendable results in the use of the etching-needle, as
witness his Cathedral To7ver, Bruges, reproduced
in the recent Special Number of The Studio on
" Modern Etchings, Mezzotints and Engravings."
Mr. D. Broadfoot Carter, ably represented by
the clever Indian Ink drawing, An Old Vagabond,
has had a busy and varied career. Like most
Glasgow artists his initiation to Art was by way of
the celebrated School of Art that helps to make the
city distinguished; like many, he began a pro-
fessional career as a lithographer; like not a few,
he studied in Paris and finally settled in London
where book illustration and poster designing absorb
much of his attention. With limited medium and
restricted line, he obtains convincing effect, the
absence of colour is unremembered in the vigour
that characterises the work. J. T.
By the death of Sir Francis Powell, which took
place at his residence, Tor Aluinn, Dunoon, on
October 17, Scottish Art has suffered a severe loss,
for although this distinguished water-colour painter
was not a Scot by birth, having been born at
Manchester, his long association with Scotland
and the prominent part he played in the progress
of his favourite medium and of art generally on
this side of the border justify us in claiming him
as " one of ours." He was an active promoter and
the first president of the Royal Scottish Society of
Painters in Water-Colours, the foundation of which
is an important landmark in the history of the
modern school of Scottish art. The Society was
established more than thirty years ago on the lines of
the Old Water-Colour Society in England, of which
Sir Francis became an Associate in 1867 and a full
member in 1876; it became a "Royal" Society in
1889, and in 1893 its first president was knighted.
A few weeks before the death of Sir Francis
Mr. H. S. Hopwood, an associate of the Old Water-
Colour Society, died under tragic circumstances at
Edinburgh at the comparatively early age of fifty-
four. His work, which had many admirers on both
sides of the border, was the subject of an article in
this magazine in February 1910.
'a canal in Venice" (i>astel)
220
by j. hamilton mackenzie, a.r.s.a. etc.