DOI issue:
No. 166 (May 1915)
DOI article:Wood, T. Martin: The Edmund Davis collection, [2]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0247
The Edmund Davis Collection—II
“VENICE” BY WALTER. 9ICKERT
Morisot was to Manet, not an imitator but one
unconsciously transforming the style of a chosen
master to the character of her sex. We believe
that a woman’s art cannot take high place when it
can be confounded with a man’s.
In a passage leading from the hall to the Conder
room a set of coloured drawings by Mr. Edmund
Dulac is framed behind Japanese lacquer panels,
which open and reveal a fantastic story in the
style of the Japanese, and in the hall itself there is
a painting by Constance Halford which well re-
presents her exceptional colour. There, too,
hangs a rather early painting by Orpen, depicting
a girl reclining in a cushioned chair near a window,
her arms above her head; outside the window
twilight creates a deep blue, in contrast to the
glow of the lamp-lit room. The effect is peculiarly
happy even for Mr. Orpen, whose skill is unsur-
passed in problems of the kind.
The collection contains a small interior piece
called The Lady in Muslin, by F. H. Potter.
This painter died in 1887, and at his death his
art had not obtained the reputation it deserved.
It sometimes approaches the work of Stevens, the
Belgian, in its delicacy. There are two paintings by
G. F. Watts ; the Creation of Eve and Denunciation.
These are reproduced in colour with this article.
Our colour reproductions also include La Plage
by Boudin. Boudin lived at the moment when
Impressionism was at its height, and when a re-
sponsiveness to the mood of nature was cultivated
as never before or since. Nothing was then done
241
“VENICE” BY WALTER. 9ICKERT
Morisot was to Manet, not an imitator but one
unconsciously transforming the style of a chosen
master to the character of her sex. We believe
that a woman’s art cannot take high place when it
can be confounded with a man’s.
In a passage leading from the hall to the Conder
room a set of coloured drawings by Mr. Edmund
Dulac is framed behind Japanese lacquer panels,
which open and reveal a fantastic story in the
style of the Japanese, and in the hall itself there is
a painting by Constance Halford which well re-
presents her exceptional colour. There, too,
hangs a rather early painting by Orpen, depicting
a girl reclining in a cushioned chair near a window,
her arms above her head; outside the window
twilight creates a deep blue, in contrast to the
glow of the lamp-lit room. The effect is peculiarly
happy even for Mr. Orpen, whose skill is unsur-
passed in problems of the kind.
The collection contains a small interior piece
called The Lady in Muslin, by F. H. Potter.
This painter died in 1887, and at his death his
art had not obtained the reputation it deserved.
It sometimes approaches the work of Stevens, the
Belgian, in its delicacy. There are two paintings by
G. F. Watts ; the Creation of Eve and Denunciation.
These are reproduced in colour with this article.
Our colour reproductions also include La Plage
by Boudin. Boudin lived at the moment when
Impressionism was at its height, and when a re-
sponsiveness to the mood of nature was cultivated
as never before or since. Nothing was then done
241