DOI issue:
No. 275 (February 1916)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21261#0063
Studio-Talk
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“BRIDGEND, CERES”
fondness for classic types of beauty. Two loan
works by Mr. Percy Portsmouth were on view, a
series of studies of animals by Mr. J. W. Somerville,
a St. Cecilia and a Boy putting a Stone by Mr.
Alexander Carrick, and a rather important imagi-
native work, Wind and Sea, by Mrs. Meredith
Williams.
The Society of Scottish Artist s’Exhibition, opened
in December, comfortably filled four of the Royal
Scottish Academy Galleries and the Sculpture
Hall. The Society must have had many difficulties
to contend against, and they surmounted them
remarkably well. Fifteen members of the College
of Art staff and 230 of its students have gone to
the war besides a proportion of the members of
the Society, and it was thus pretty much left to
the older men and the women members to carry
the Exhibition through. Nearly three hundred
pictures were placed in addition to a few examples
of applied art, and though a fair proportion of
the work was small the quality was encouragingly
good.
BY ROBERT HOME
Of the invited work the three most prominent
pictures were Mr. Napier Hemy’s Life or Death—
Betrayed by the Moon, Mr. Arthur Burgess’s The
Roaring Lion, and Mr. Charles Dixon’s Spithead,
fuly 24, IQ14—very useful in giving a present-day
popular interest to the Exhibition, and each serving
as a reminder of the great part our Navy is playing
in this world-war. Other invited works were a
charming example of the romantic landscape-
painting of J. C. Wintour, an artist not even yet
appraised at his proper value, a landscape with
figures by Monticelli, a beautiful cottage interior
by Thomas Faed, and the late Mr. J. W.
Alexander’s Devant la Glace, a work of great
tenderness and refinement that is reminiscent of
Whistler in its technique.
The new President of the Council, Mr. Robert
Home, who has made very decided progress in his
art within the last two or three years, painting in
the district of Ceres, where he has a summer home,
has done nothing finer than his Bridgend, Ceres,
which, following the path of the plein air school,
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(Society of Scottish A rtists )
mam
“BRIDGEND, CERES”
fondness for classic types of beauty. Two loan
works by Mr. Percy Portsmouth were on view, a
series of studies of animals by Mr. J. W. Somerville,
a St. Cecilia and a Boy putting a Stone by Mr.
Alexander Carrick, and a rather important imagi-
native work, Wind and Sea, by Mrs. Meredith
Williams.
The Society of Scottish Artist s’Exhibition, opened
in December, comfortably filled four of the Royal
Scottish Academy Galleries and the Sculpture
Hall. The Society must have had many difficulties
to contend against, and they surmounted them
remarkably well. Fifteen members of the College
of Art staff and 230 of its students have gone to
the war besides a proportion of the members of
the Society, and it was thus pretty much left to
the older men and the women members to carry
the Exhibition through. Nearly three hundred
pictures were placed in addition to a few examples
of applied art, and though a fair proportion of
the work was small the quality was encouragingly
good.
BY ROBERT HOME
Of the invited work the three most prominent
pictures were Mr. Napier Hemy’s Life or Death—
Betrayed by the Moon, Mr. Arthur Burgess’s The
Roaring Lion, and Mr. Charles Dixon’s Spithead,
fuly 24, IQ14—very useful in giving a present-day
popular interest to the Exhibition, and each serving
as a reminder of the great part our Navy is playing
in this world-war. Other invited works were a
charming example of the romantic landscape-
painting of J. C. Wintour, an artist not even yet
appraised at his proper value, a landscape with
figures by Monticelli, a beautiful cottage interior
by Thomas Faed, and the late Mr. J. W.
Alexander’s Devant la Glace, a work of great
tenderness and refinement that is reminiscent of
Whistler in its technique.
The new President of the Council, Mr. Robert
Home, who has made very decided progress in his
art within the last two or three years, painting in
the district of Ceres, where he has a summer home,
has done nothing finer than his Bridgend, Ceres,
which, following the path of the plein air school,
57
(Society of Scottish A rtists )