DOI Heft:
No. 269 (August 1915)
DOI Artikel:The New English Art Club's fifty-third exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21213#0205
The New English Art Chib
“the two bridges” (By permission of the Proprietors of “ The Times”) by noel rooke
W. J. Leech of Professor H. Brougham Leech, and
the aggressively clever head of Mr. George Bernard
Shaw which, catalogued simply as Oil Painting,
was Mr. Augustus John’s sole contribution to the
exhibition. Mr. McEvoy showed also some of
those pale rubbed-out water-colours in which at
times he achieves such interesting quality and such
subtle portraiture. In this respect his Mrs. Odette
Thornhill, and ALajor Spencer Edwards are
memorable.
Among artists who have turned their attention
to mural decoration Mr. Cayley Robinson always
arouses our admiration for the sincerity and the
humanity and simplicity which, besides a trace of
austerity, are characteristic of his work. His large
painting Orphans, which we reproduce, was one
of the outstanding features of the New English
display. This work, forming one of a series of
“Acts of Mercy” intended for the new entrance
hall of the Middlesex Hospital, is an interesting
example of decorative painting and a panel of
much dignity and charm. Noteworthy is the con-
trast of the pale light of the waning day with the
warm illumination of the lamp upon the table,
around which are gathered the little girls in their
blue uniforms. The classic dignity of pose of the
women attending to the meal (particularly of
the one who, in somewhat severely hanging dress,
holds a baby on her arm) contrasts agreeably with
the unaffected attitudes of the children, of the one
who—most reprehensibly, no doubt—drinks with
both elbows on the table, and those others coming
down the winding stairs to join their companions
at supper.
Mr. Maxwell Armfield showed one of a series
of fresco paintings, “ The Year’s at the Spring,”
entitled The Rathe Primrose, which we hope to
illustrate in a future number; and other works
decorative in character were Mr. Joseph Southall’s
The Sailing-Boats' Return ; Mr. C. M. Gere’s beau-
tiful tempera paintings, Morning and Evening, and
his fine Trenches of the Gods.
Among the drawings, which are, almost invariably,
one of the most attractive features of the exhibitions
of the New English Art Club, we illustrate The
Town of Grasse, a pen drawing in brown ink by
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“the two bridges” (By permission of the Proprietors of “ The Times”) by noel rooke
W. J. Leech of Professor H. Brougham Leech, and
the aggressively clever head of Mr. George Bernard
Shaw which, catalogued simply as Oil Painting,
was Mr. Augustus John’s sole contribution to the
exhibition. Mr. McEvoy showed also some of
those pale rubbed-out water-colours in which at
times he achieves such interesting quality and such
subtle portraiture. In this respect his Mrs. Odette
Thornhill, and ALajor Spencer Edwards are
memorable.
Among artists who have turned their attention
to mural decoration Mr. Cayley Robinson always
arouses our admiration for the sincerity and the
humanity and simplicity which, besides a trace of
austerity, are characteristic of his work. His large
painting Orphans, which we reproduce, was one
of the outstanding features of the New English
display. This work, forming one of a series of
“Acts of Mercy” intended for the new entrance
hall of the Middlesex Hospital, is an interesting
example of decorative painting and a panel of
much dignity and charm. Noteworthy is the con-
trast of the pale light of the waning day with the
warm illumination of the lamp upon the table,
around which are gathered the little girls in their
blue uniforms. The classic dignity of pose of the
women attending to the meal (particularly of
the one who, in somewhat severely hanging dress,
holds a baby on her arm) contrasts agreeably with
the unaffected attitudes of the children, of the one
who—most reprehensibly, no doubt—drinks with
both elbows on the table, and those others coming
down the winding stairs to join their companions
at supper.
Mr. Maxwell Armfield showed one of a series
of fresco paintings, “ The Year’s at the Spring,”
entitled The Rathe Primrose, which we hope to
illustrate in a future number; and other works
decorative in character were Mr. Joseph Southall’s
The Sailing-Boats' Return ; Mr. C. M. Gere’s beau-
tiful tempera paintings, Morning and Evening, and
his fine Trenches of the Gods.
Among the drawings, which are, almost invariably,
one of the most attractive features of the exhibitions
of the New English Art Club, we illustrate The
Town of Grasse, a pen drawing in brown ink by
185