DOI Heft:
No. 262 (January 1915)
DOI Artikel:MacTavish, Newton: Notes on some canadian etchers
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0264
Canadian Etchers
Montreal Art School, where he won a scholarship.
There he attracted the attention of a dealer, who
undertook to send him abroad. This was in a
sense an unfortunate thing for the young artist,
beoause it gave the dealer control of his output,
and as he was successful, particularly in etching
at first, winning honourable mention at the Paris
Salon a year after he began, his work was already
attracting attention. He studied for a while at
the Julian Academy, under Jean Paul Laurens,
and in 1905 was awarded a medal at the St. Louis
Exposition for a painting entitled Oxen Ploughing.
At one time he did a good deal of figure work,
but his tendency of late has been towards land-
scape, both in etching and painting, with a marked
preference for French-Canadian subjects. He
usually exhibits every year in Paris, and occa-
sionally at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool, and the
International of London. He is a member of the
Canadian Art Club, which is the most exclusive
association of artists in the Dominion. Prints
from his etchings have been bought for the collec-
tions at South Kensington, the Petit Palais des
Beaux-Arts, Paris, at The Hague, Florence, Venice,
and the National Art Gallery of Canada.
Miss Stevens is a younger artist still, and one
whose work undoubtedly will give her an inter-
national reputation. Although a Canadian, she
passes a great deal of her time abroad, where she
has made a notable series of etchings, particularly
of old cathedrals at Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges,
Malines, and Brussels. She is not connected with
any art associations in Canada, although she is a
frequent exhibitor. She is a member of the
Chicago Society of Etchers, and has exhibited with
the New English Art Club, and at the Paris Salon.
She had an unusually successful career as a student
at the Slade Art School in London, where she won
two prizes in drawing and three in painting. She
studied also at the Academie Grande Chaumiere,
Paris.
Mr. H. Ivan Neilson, a Scottish Canadian, finds
his subjects in and near the old city of Quebec.
He traces an extremely delicate line, and works
also for tone and restful effects. He is fastidious
about printing, for he regards every detail of the
art as of first importance. He is not content,
therefore, to etch the copper and let some other
person pull the print. To him the printing is not
merely a craft: it is an art of the first importance.
'BRENTFORD"
BY PERCY GRASSBY
26l
Montreal Art School, where he won a scholarship.
There he attracted the attention of a dealer, who
undertook to send him abroad. This was in a
sense an unfortunate thing for the young artist,
beoause it gave the dealer control of his output,
and as he was successful, particularly in etching
at first, winning honourable mention at the Paris
Salon a year after he began, his work was already
attracting attention. He studied for a while at
the Julian Academy, under Jean Paul Laurens,
and in 1905 was awarded a medal at the St. Louis
Exposition for a painting entitled Oxen Ploughing.
At one time he did a good deal of figure work,
but his tendency of late has been towards land-
scape, both in etching and painting, with a marked
preference for French-Canadian subjects. He
usually exhibits every year in Paris, and occa-
sionally at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool, and the
International of London. He is a member of the
Canadian Art Club, which is the most exclusive
association of artists in the Dominion. Prints
from his etchings have been bought for the collec-
tions at South Kensington, the Petit Palais des
Beaux-Arts, Paris, at The Hague, Florence, Venice,
and the National Art Gallery of Canada.
Miss Stevens is a younger artist still, and one
whose work undoubtedly will give her an inter-
national reputation. Although a Canadian, she
passes a great deal of her time abroad, where she
has made a notable series of etchings, particularly
of old cathedrals at Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges,
Malines, and Brussels. She is not connected with
any art associations in Canada, although she is a
frequent exhibitor. She is a member of the
Chicago Society of Etchers, and has exhibited with
the New English Art Club, and at the Paris Salon.
She had an unusually successful career as a student
at the Slade Art School in London, where she won
two prizes in drawing and three in painting. She
studied also at the Academie Grande Chaumiere,
Paris.
Mr. H. Ivan Neilson, a Scottish Canadian, finds
his subjects in and near the old city of Quebec.
He traces an extremely delicate line, and works
also for tone and restful effects. He is fastidious
about printing, for he regards every detail of the
art as of first importance. He is not content,
therefore, to etch the copper and let some other
person pull the print. To him the printing is not
merely a craft: it is an art of the first importance.
'BRENTFORD"
BY PERCY GRASSBY
26l