DOI Heft:
No. 268 (July 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21213#0151
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“ THE HARBOUR, ST. IVES ”
BY A. BEAUMONT
London, leaving the field free for a younger group.
Among these there are few who continue the
traditions of this famous school of painters more
truly than Mr. A. Beaumont. It is with pleasure
we reproduce two of his luminous canvases, marked
by the sound draughtsmanship and the broad
treatment which have been the chief characteristics
of the St. Ives school.
At the Fine Art Society’s galleries last month
Laura Knight and S. J. Lamorna Birch joined forces
in an attractive exhibition in which their' works,
sufficiently akin in feeling to harmonise on the
walls, yet, to some extent, complemented one
another. Both artists have in common a sincere
love of out-of-doors, of sunshine and of nature in
her smiling moods, but while Mr. Birch delights in
landscape pure and simple, decoratively composed,
Mrs. Knight is at her best when she seizes upon
some detail of a scene—a nude luminously drawn
against a background of rocks and sea, as in The
Pool, or figures seen against limpid seashore skies
—and depicts it with the frank and healthy dexterity
which pleases so much in her oil or water-colour.
Various studies of the Russian Ballet were interest-
ing, but these and the large water-colour, The
Morning Ride, shown recently at the R.W.S., were
not so successful as her enthusiastic plein-air
studies, such as the finely drawn Bathing Pools, or
three delightful pictures of calves in a byre. In a
recent article on Mr. Birch’s work, reference was
made to the sincerity and alertness of this artist’s
attitude towards nature, and the water-colours here
exhibited evinced the same delight in sunshine, in
swirling, sparkling water, the same ability in com-
position, and the attractive colour generally charac-
teristic of his work. Particularly interesting were
some little, simply-handled drawings in chalk and
wash, such as Sketch on the Bela ; Halton Rocks;
Farlton Knott, near Windermere, and other works
like Spring Morning by the Aqueduct, Lancaster
The Lune on a Mav Morn; and A Fresh Wind.
Mr. Wynne Apperley’s exhibition at the Alpine-
Club Gallery comprised examples of his work
during the ten years of his career and a number of
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“ THE HARBOUR, ST. IVES ”
BY A. BEAUMONT
London, leaving the field free for a younger group.
Among these there are few who continue the
traditions of this famous school of painters more
truly than Mr. A. Beaumont. It is with pleasure
we reproduce two of his luminous canvases, marked
by the sound draughtsmanship and the broad
treatment which have been the chief characteristics
of the St. Ives school.
At the Fine Art Society’s galleries last month
Laura Knight and S. J. Lamorna Birch joined forces
in an attractive exhibition in which their' works,
sufficiently akin in feeling to harmonise on the
walls, yet, to some extent, complemented one
another. Both artists have in common a sincere
love of out-of-doors, of sunshine and of nature in
her smiling moods, but while Mr. Birch delights in
landscape pure and simple, decoratively composed,
Mrs. Knight is at her best when she seizes upon
some detail of a scene—a nude luminously drawn
against a background of rocks and sea, as in The
Pool, or figures seen against limpid seashore skies
—and depicts it with the frank and healthy dexterity
which pleases so much in her oil or water-colour.
Various studies of the Russian Ballet were interest-
ing, but these and the large water-colour, The
Morning Ride, shown recently at the R.W.S., were
not so successful as her enthusiastic plein-air
studies, such as the finely drawn Bathing Pools, or
three delightful pictures of calves in a byre. In a
recent article on Mr. Birch’s work, reference was
made to the sincerity and alertness of this artist’s
attitude towards nature, and the water-colours here
exhibited evinced the same delight in sunshine, in
swirling, sparkling water, the same ability in com-
position, and the attractive colour generally charac-
teristic of his work. Particularly interesting were
some little, simply-handled drawings in chalk and
wash, such as Sketch on the Bela ; Halton Rocks;
Farlton Knott, near Windermere, and other works
like Spring Morning by the Aqueduct, Lancaster
The Lune on a Mav Morn; and A Fresh Wind.
Mr. Wynne Apperley’s exhibition at the Alpine-
Club Gallery comprised examples of his work
during the ten years of his career and a number of
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