DOI Heft:
No. 269 (August 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21213#0232
Studio-Talk
panels for a private residence in Trieste which
show a decided feeling for decoration, and he has
also designed some attractive posters.
MONTREAL.—During the past few
years the periodical exhibitions here
of local paintings and sculpture have
been chiefly interesting by reason of
the evidence they have afforded of a marked
movement towards the development of a dis-
tinctively Canadian art. The effort in this direction
is, of course, still somewhat tentative, and speaking
generally, must yet be regarded in its manifestations
as crude, and only occasionally satisfying. But
it is, at least, sincere and virile. The Spring
Exhibition at [the galleries of the Art Association
of Montreal this year gave indication of further
progress on these lines.
Compared with exhibitions of former years, the
general average of the work shown on this occasion
was meritorious, while in certain instances an
exceptionally high standard was attained. Miss
Laura Muntz, for example, who was represented
by three large canvases, has never perhaps expressed
herself so completely and so convincingly as in her
Mother and Child, which was not only exquisitely
tender in sentiment and feeling, but luminous in
quality, and rich and harmonious in colour. Mr.
A. Suzor-Cote showed also some most interesting
works, well illustrating his quite remarkable versa-
tility. They included a fine landscape, an inter-
esting portrait of an Indian girl, Onotaha, and a
nude, Douleur, painted with understanding and a
just perception for form. Mr. Maurice Cullen’s
Saw Mill, a well-balanced composition, possessing
fine tonal qualities, was quite characteristic of this
artist at his best.
The President of the Royal Canadian Academy,
Mr. Wm. Brymner, exhibited two marine studies
of the Cape Breton coast, of which Incoming Tide
was awarded a special prize; and special mention
should be made of the very individual and typically
Canadian paintings, so different, however, in treat-
ment and intention, of Mr. A. Y. Jackson, who
may properly be considered the leader of the new
Canadian School, and Mr. Clarence A. Gagnon.
“on the canal”
(Montreal Art Association )
BY CHARLES W. SIMPSON, A.R.C.A.
panels for a private residence in Trieste which
show a decided feeling for decoration, and he has
also designed some attractive posters.
MONTREAL.—During the past few
years the periodical exhibitions here
of local paintings and sculpture have
been chiefly interesting by reason of
the evidence they have afforded of a marked
movement towards the development of a dis-
tinctively Canadian art. The effort in this direction
is, of course, still somewhat tentative, and speaking
generally, must yet be regarded in its manifestations
as crude, and only occasionally satisfying. But
it is, at least, sincere and virile. The Spring
Exhibition at [the galleries of the Art Association
of Montreal this year gave indication of further
progress on these lines.
Compared with exhibitions of former years, the
general average of the work shown on this occasion
was meritorious, while in certain instances an
exceptionally high standard was attained. Miss
Laura Muntz, for example, who was represented
by three large canvases, has never perhaps expressed
herself so completely and so convincingly as in her
Mother and Child, which was not only exquisitely
tender in sentiment and feeling, but luminous in
quality, and rich and harmonious in colour. Mr.
A. Suzor-Cote showed also some most interesting
works, well illustrating his quite remarkable versa-
tility. They included a fine landscape, an inter-
esting portrait of an Indian girl, Onotaha, and a
nude, Douleur, painted with understanding and a
just perception for form. Mr. Maurice Cullen’s
Saw Mill, a well-balanced composition, possessing
fine tonal qualities, was quite characteristic of this
artist at his best.
The President of the Royal Canadian Academy,
Mr. Wm. Brymner, exhibited two marine studies
of the Cape Breton coast, of which Incoming Tide
was awarded a special prize; and special mention
should be made of the very individual and typically
Canadian paintings, so different, however, in treat-
ment and intention, of Mr. A. Y. Jackson, who
may properly be considered the leader of the new
Canadian School, and Mr. Clarence A. Gagnon.
“on the canal”
(Montreal Art Association )
BY CHARLES W. SIMPSON, A.R.C.A.