DOI Heft:
No. 265 (April 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0217
Studio- Talk
Canada, believing in and understanding Canada,
and at least to some extent encouraged by
Canadians. They are painting their own country
and realising its wonders and its individuality with
an outburst of colour and strength which bids fair
to carry all before it. The recent annual exhibi-
tion of the Royal Canadian Academy illustrated
this movement more forcibly than ever before, and
the hopeful are convinced that they are looking
into the dawn of an art era in Canada which will
realise some of the true glory of the country and
do much to help the people to an appreciation of
better things than the exploitation of land values
and speculative money-making.
Canada has at least two seasons incomparable
the world over, her autumn and her winter, and it
is the fiery glory of the one and the white grandeur
of the other, which are inspiring her painters to
sincerity of purpose and simplicity of method. It
may seem almost unbelievable to people in England
that, within an hour or two’s railway journey from
Ottawa and almost within sight of it, lies a thinly
inhabited land where the lakes teem with fish
and the woods with wild animals, where in the
autumn the scarlet maples blaze among the dark
pines, and in the winter wolves tear down the deer.
This is the land the painters are seeking, and it
must inspire great thoughts and great work.
Some recent purchases from this group of painters
include The Red Maple, by A. Y. Jackson, a blood
red maple tree silhouetted against the blue and
brown of a rushing stream; Winter Morning by
Lawren Harris, a study of primrose light behind
a purple pine wood; Fall Ploughingby H. S. Palmer;
The Shining River by J. E. H. Macdonald;
Evening Lights by Albert Robinson, a snow study
of exquisite tone and simplicity. Franklin Brownell
and J. W. Beatty, the one in the West Indies and
the other in the Canadian woods, contribute
notable examples to this colour movement, which
“ EVENING LIGHTS
(National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) by albert h. robinson
211
Canada, believing in and understanding Canada,
and at least to some extent encouraged by
Canadians. They are painting their own country
and realising its wonders and its individuality with
an outburst of colour and strength which bids fair
to carry all before it. The recent annual exhibi-
tion of the Royal Canadian Academy illustrated
this movement more forcibly than ever before, and
the hopeful are convinced that they are looking
into the dawn of an art era in Canada which will
realise some of the true glory of the country and
do much to help the people to an appreciation of
better things than the exploitation of land values
and speculative money-making.
Canada has at least two seasons incomparable
the world over, her autumn and her winter, and it
is the fiery glory of the one and the white grandeur
of the other, which are inspiring her painters to
sincerity of purpose and simplicity of method. It
may seem almost unbelievable to people in England
that, within an hour or two’s railway journey from
Ottawa and almost within sight of it, lies a thinly
inhabited land where the lakes teem with fish
and the woods with wild animals, where in the
autumn the scarlet maples blaze among the dark
pines, and in the winter wolves tear down the deer.
This is the land the painters are seeking, and it
must inspire great thoughts and great work.
Some recent purchases from this group of painters
include The Red Maple, by A. Y. Jackson, a blood
red maple tree silhouetted against the blue and
brown of a rushing stream; Winter Morning by
Lawren Harris, a study of primrose light behind
a purple pine wood; Fall Ploughingby H. S. Palmer;
The Shining River by J. E. H. Macdonald;
Evening Lights by Albert Robinson, a snow study
of exquisite tone and simplicity. Franklin Brownell
and J. W. Beatty, the one in the West Indies and
the other in the Canadian woods, contribute
notable examples to this colour movement, which
“ EVENING LIGHTS
(National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) by albert h. robinson
211