DOI Heft:
No. 278 (May 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21261#0273
Studio-Talk
TORONTO.—-The Canadian Art Club was
formed eight years ago, chiefly with a
view to inducing the small and growing
coterie of Canadian painters who had
won an established position in other lands to
“ come home ” : that is to say, to exhibit their
newest works in their native country and to take
an active interest in its artistic progress. Its further
purpose was to gather together resident men who
had “found themselves,” so to speak, who had
developed a definitive individuality and had passed
the stage when they could be described by that
adjective which is frequently used in mere courtesy
—“promising.” The fastidiousness with which
the Club’s membership was chosen and which has
characterised the decisions of its hanging committee
from year to year has not escaped censure, but
from year to year the Committee has escaped the
temptation of trying to make a large showing,
and has contented itself with the presentation of
a comparatively small number of works really
deserving of serious consideration.
The Club’s most recent exhibition was the best
that has been held since the brilliant inaugural
display in 1908, and the soundness of execution in
nearly every picture, the individuality of style and
vision, the atmosphere of sound and ripe attain-
ment, made it a subject of pride to native Cana-
dians, who wish their country to stand in the eyes
of the world for something more than wheat and
marvellous development in the matter of transpor-
tation. It had moreover a topical importance for
the general public, because -it afforded them a sight
of the three large canvases painted by Mr. Homer
Watson, R.C.A., the first president of the Club, by
order of the Dominion Government, as permanent
records of the training at Valcartier Camp, Quebec,
of the first Canadian Overseas Contingent. More
in keeping, however, with the general purposes of
the Club, which aims at the exhibition of works
painted from a primary artistic impulse and not to
order, were some of the smaller canvases of this
painter, who has long been noted for his intensity
of feeling and his strength of brushwork in the
treatment of landscape.
No pictures in the display were better worthy of
study than eight canvases from the brush of Mr.
Ernest Lawson, a Canadian now resident in New
“sugar bush in autumn
(Canadian Art Club)
BY A. SUZOR COTl£
269
TORONTO.—-The Canadian Art Club was
formed eight years ago, chiefly with a
view to inducing the small and growing
coterie of Canadian painters who had
won an established position in other lands to
“ come home ” : that is to say, to exhibit their
newest works in their native country and to take
an active interest in its artistic progress. Its further
purpose was to gather together resident men who
had “found themselves,” so to speak, who had
developed a definitive individuality and had passed
the stage when they could be described by that
adjective which is frequently used in mere courtesy
—“promising.” The fastidiousness with which
the Club’s membership was chosen and which has
characterised the decisions of its hanging committee
from year to year has not escaped censure, but
from year to year the Committee has escaped the
temptation of trying to make a large showing,
and has contented itself with the presentation of
a comparatively small number of works really
deserving of serious consideration.
The Club’s most recent exhibition was the best
that has been held since the brilliant inaugural
display in 1908, and the soundness of execution in
nearly every picture, the individuality of style and
vision, the atmosphere of sound and ripe attain-
ment, made it a subject of pride to native Cana-
dians, who wish their country to stand in the eyes
of the world for something more than wheat and
marvellous development in the matter of transpor-
tation. It had moreover a topical importance for
the general public, because -it afforded them a sight
of the three large canvases painted by Mr. Homer
Watson, R.C.A., the first president of the Club, by
order of the Dominion Government, as permanent
records of the training at Valcartier Camp, Quebec,
of the first Canadian Overseas Contingent. More
in keeping, however, with the general purposes of
the Club, which aims at the exhibition of works
painted from a primary artistic impulse and not to
order, were some of the smaller canvases of this
painter, who has long been noted for his intensity
of feeling and his strength of brushwork in the
treatment of landscape.
No pictures in the display were better worthy of
study than eight canvases from the brush of Mr.
Ernest Lawson, a Canadian now resident in New
“sugar bush in autumn
(Canadian Art Club)
BY A. SUZOR COTl£
269