DOI Heft:
No. 275 (February 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21261#0065
Studio- Talk
The novelty of the
Society of Eight Exhibition
in their galleries in Shand-
wick Place was a series of
clever cartoons of soldiers
and sailors. About fifty in
number, these bold sketches,
in which, with a minimum
of line in black, with some-
times a dash of colour
introduced, a marvellous
completeness of effect is
produced, give Mr. Cadell
at a bound a place in the
front rank of cartoonists.
Mr. Cadell also showed some
remarkably bold impres-
sionist studies of West Coast
scenery. The other work
included a fine Solway land-
scape by Mr. James Pater-
son, moorland and river
scenes by Mr. Cadenhead,
interiors by Mr. P. W.
Adam, and three figure-
subjects by Mr. John
Lavery, A.R.A.
“THE ARCHER” BY TERCY PORTSMOUTH, A.R.S.A.
(Messrs. Doig, Wilson er Wheatley's Galleries, Edinburgh. Lent by P. /. Ford, Esq.)
59
what Scottish art has suffered by their early death
could be inferred from the artistry manifested in
Mr. Hislop’s large twilight landscape and Mr.
Munnoch’s picturesque Monastery. Mr. Hender-
son Tarbet has well realised in Sunset—Rannoch
Moor the sense of space and beauty of colour in
a Highland landscape, and Mr. James Riddell’s
Ochils landscape is effectively composed. Among
the figure-work a prominent place was occupied by
Mr.Percy Dixon’s Flora, an advance on any of his
previous work; Mr. Robert Hope’s Sunlight and
Silk and portraits of two children by Mr. Stanley
Cursitor are the other outstanding figure-subjects
exhibited on this occasion.
In the water-colour room one was pleased to see
a large Highland subject by Mr. T. Marjoribanks
Hay, whose work has been much missed from
recent exhibitions, and there were good pastels by
Mr. Mackenzie Hamilton and Miss Meg Wright,
a delicately phrased Sussex landscape by Mr.
Henry Lintott, and effective drawings by Miss
Katherine Cameron and
Miss Emily Paterson.
GLASGOW.—Mr. A. K. Brown, R.S.A.,
occupies a commanding position
among Scottish landscapists, and his
work is tolerably familiar in British
galleries, but a recent exhibition in Glasgow of his
water-colours must have come as something of a
revelation to those who know only his work in oils.
He has practically abandoned the heavier medium,
and concentration on aquarelle seems to have had
a revivifying effect on his art. His oils suggest a
brooding outlook on nature ; Highland ben and
moorland under wintry skies are favourite themes
which find expression in impressive low-toned
harmonies. On the other hand, in his water-colours
the dominant note is unalloyed gaiety. He revels
in sunny skies, joyous cloud galleons and bright
colour. Among these thirty and odd delectable
pictures there is nothing to suggest the tempera-
ment revealed in his oil paintings. That is not
only evidence of versatility, it shews that Mr.
Brown appreciates the legitimate purpose of the
medium. Water-colour is essentially a sprightly
A. E.
The novelty of the
Society of Eight Exhibition
in their galleries in Shand-
wick Place was a series of
clever cartoons of soldiers
and sailors. About fifty in
number, these bold sketches,
in which, with a minimum
of line in black, with some-
times a dash of colour
introduced, a marvellous
completeness of effect is
produced, give Mr. Cadell
at a bound a place in the
front rank of cartoonists.
Mr. Cadell also showed some
remarkably bold impres-
sionist studies of West Coast
scenery. The other work
included a fine Solway land-
scape by Mr. James Pater-
son, moorland and river
scenes by Mr. Cadenhead,
interiors by Mr. P. W.
Adam, and three figure-
subjects by Mr. John
Lavery, A.R.A.
“THE ARCHER” BY TERCY PORTSMOUTH, A.R.S.A.
(Messrs. Doig, Wilson er Wheatley's Galleries, Edinburgh. Lent by P. /. Ford, Esq.)
59
what Scottish art has suffered by their early death
could be inferred from the artistry manifested in
Mr. Hislop’s large twilight landscape and Mr.
Munnoch’s picturesque Monastery. Mr. Hender-
son Tarbet has well realised in Sunset—Rannoch
Moor the sense of space and beauty of colour in
a Highland landscape, and Mr. James Riddell’s
Ochils landscape is effectively composed. Among
the figure-work a prominent place was occupied by
Mr.Percy Dixon’s Flora, an advance on any of his
previous work; Mr. Robert Hope’s Sunlight and
Silk and portraits of two children by Mr. Stanley
Cursitor are the other outstanding figure-subjects
exhibited on this occasion.
In the water-colour room one was pleased to see
a large Highland subject by Mr. T. Marjoribanks
Hay, whose work has been much missed from
recent exhibitions, and there were good pastels by
Mr. Mackenzie Hamilton and Miss Meg Wright,
a delicately phrased Sussex landscape by Mr.
Henry Lintott, and effective drawings by Miss
Katherine Cameron and
Miss Emily Paterson.
GLASGOW.—Mr. A. K. Brown, R.S.A.,
occupies a commanding position
among Scottish landscapists, and his
work is tolerably familiar in British
galleries, but a recent exhibition in Glasgow of his
water-colours must have come as something of a
revelation to those who know only his work in oils.
He has practically abandoned the heavier medium,
and concentration on aquarelle seems to have had
a revivifying effect on his art. His oils suggest a
brooding outlook on nature ; Highland ben and
moorland under wintry skies are favourite themes
which find expression in impressive low-toned
harmonies. On the other hand, in his water-colours
the dominant note is unalloyed gaiety. He revels
in sunny skies, joyous cloud galleons and bright
colour. Among these thirty and odd delectable
pictures there is nothing to suggest the tempera-
ment revealed in his oil paintings. That is not
only evidence of versatility, it shews that Mr.
Brown appreciates the legitimate purpose of the
medium. Water-colour is essentially a sprightly
A. E.