DOI Heft:
No. 265 (April 1915)
DOI Artikel:Anna Airy's drawings of fruit, flowers and foliage
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0200
Drawings by Anna Airy
“the wrong label
BY ANNA AIRY
It is very seldom that people who possess an
intimate knowledge of trees, plants, and flowers,
and have also a love of art, can look with pleasure
upon pictures of just those features of nature with
which they are best acquainted, and which they
would desire to see represented before anything
else. They may search far for anything resembling
Miss Airy’s work in its reverence for life. She
brings to the subject abilities which in other
branches of art have already given her name much
distinction. The series of exquisite nature studies
with which we are concerned in this paper formed
part of an exhibition of the artist’s paintings, draw-
ings, and etchings held at the Fine Art Society’s
Gallery in Bond Street last month, and the powerful
“ associations ” of field and orchard which attach
to her favourite theme did not fail to sound a con-
solatory note in an overshadowed season.
194
Miss Airy was a scholarship student of the Slade
School, where she distinguished herself as the
holder of all the first prizes, and for three years of
the coveted Melville Nettleship prize. She is a
member of the Pastel Society, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, Member of the
Royal Institute of Painters in Oils, and of the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Her etchings
have been purchased in 1908 and 1914 for the
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. The Royal
Academy, the International Society, and the
New English Art Club walls have all placed her
work “ on the line.” This professional testimony
to the brilliance of her execution in various fields
gives an especial interest to the concentration of
her powers on the laborious but sensitive interpre-
tion of foliage, fruits, and blossoms of which we
have written. T. W.
“the wrong label
BY ANNA AIRY
It is very seldom that people who possess an
intimate knowledge of trees, plants, and flowers,
and have also a love of art, can look with pleasure
upon pictures of just those features of nature with
which they are best acquainted, and which they
would desire to see represented before anything
else. They may search far for anything resembling
Miss Airy’s work in its reverence for life. She
brings to the subject abilities which in other
branches of art have already given her name much
distinction. The series of exquisite nature studies
with which we are concerned in this paper formed
part of an exhibition of the artist’s paintings, draw-
ings, and etchings held at the Fine Art Society’s
Gallery in Bond Street last month, and the powerful
“ associations ” of field and orchard which attach
to her favourite theme did not fail to sound a con-
solatory note in an overshadowed season.
194
Miss Airy was a scholarship student of the Slade
School, where she distinguished herself as the
holder of all the first prizes, and for three years of
the coveted Melville Nettleship prize. She is a
member of the Pastel Society, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, Member of the
Royal Institute of Painters in Oils, and of the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Her etchings
have been purchased in 1908 and 1914 for the
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. The Royal
Academy, the International Society, and the
New English Art Club walls have all placed her
work “ on the line.” This professional testimony
to the brilliance of her execution in various fields
gives an especial interest to the concentration of
her powers on the laborious but sensitive interpre-
tion of foliage, fruits, and blossoms of which we
have written. T. W.