DOI Heft:
No. 278 (May 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21261#0274
Studio-Talk
York, whose work attracted much attention in
American exhibitions last year. Mr. Lawson makes
one feel, as do few other painters, the thrill that
pure sunlight imparts. There is something ecstatic
and mystical in his feeling for light playing on
large vistas. His subjects are not definitely
Canadian, but the environment in which he works
in climatic characteristics so resembles that of
Eastern Canada that his artistic emotions readily
appeal to his fellow-countrymen. What he feels
he has the technique to express brilliantly. His
composition is decorative in style, but it also in
every picture gives the effect of something actually
seen. Mr. Arthur Crisp, another Canadian living
in New York, was represented by several charming
decorative pieces, somewhat after the manner of
the brilliant American painter Frieseke. The work
of Mr. Crisp, it may be noted in passing, won
a good deal of attention at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition in San Francisco.
The present President of the Club, Mr. Horatio
Walker, is also a venerated figure in the National
Academy of the United States, although he was
born in the province of Ontario and has his studio
on the Island of Orleans, Quebec. His chief
offering was Lime Burners at Night, a heavily
painted picture, remarkable for its depth. Mr.
Walker delights in deep green tones, and con-
trasted with these were subtle effects of moonlight
in the background, and the red sparkle of the kiln
in the foreground—the whole giving a dramatic
and mysterious quality to the picture.
The Club did a great service when it induced
Mr. J. W. Morrice, a native of Montreal but long
a resident of Paris, to exhibit once more in his
native land. On this occasion he sent several
pieces which expressed that dreamy detachment
in feeling, that soothing and mellow colour vision
which distinguish most of his later works. The
sober yet lovely tones of his picture Market Place,
St. Malo, had an appeal not easily expressed in
words. The characteristic poetry of his style was
“A VILLAGE STREET”
. 270
(Canadian Art Club)
BY A. SUZOR COT£
York, whose work attracted much attention in
American exhibitions last year. Mr. Lawson makes
one feel, as do few other painters, the thrill that
pure sunlight imparts. There is something ecstatic
and mystical in his feeling for light playing on
large vistas. His subjects are not definitely
Canadian, but the environment in which he works
in climatic characteristics so resembles that of
Eastern Canada that his artistic emotions readily
appeal to his fellow-countrymen. What he feels
he has the technique to express brilliantly. His
composition is decorative in style, but it also in
every picture gives the effect of something actually
seen. Mr. Arthur Crisp, another Canadian living
in New York, was represented by several charming
decorative pieces, somewhat after the manner of
the brilliant American painter Frieseke. The work
of Mr. Crisp, it may be noted in passing, won
a good deal of attention at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition in San Francisco.
The present President of the Club, Mr. Horatio
Walker, is also a venerated figure in the National
Academy of the United States, although he was
born in the province of Ontario and has his studio
on the Island of Orleans, Quebec. His chief
offering was Lime Burners at Night, a heavily
painted picture, remarkable for its depth. Mr.
Walker delights in deep green tones, and con-
trasted with these were subtle effects of moonlight
in the background, and the red sparkle of the kiln
in the foreground—the whole giving a dramatic
and mysterious quality to the picture.
The Club did a great service when it induced
Mr. J. W. Morrice, a native of Montreal but long
a resident of Paris, to exhibit once more in his
native land. On this occasion he sent several
pieces which expressed that dreamy detachment
in feeling, that soothing and mellow colour vision
which distinguish most of his later works. The
sober yet lovely tones of his picture Market Place,
St. Malo, had an appeal not easily expressed in
words. The characteristic poetry of his style was
“A VILLAGE STREET”
. 270
(Canadian Art Club)
BY A. SUZOR COT£