DOI Heft:
No. 280 (July 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21262#0144
Studio- Talk
day war subjects to the legendary fights of mythical
times, and Mr. John Duncan realises this in his
Valkyries, and means the beholder also to realise
it, by his manner of treatment representing a small
troop of these warriors each coursing with a dead
hero to Valhalla, as a purely decorative subject
with no relation to actuality.
with advantage been employed than has charac-
terised most of his previous work. In addition
to his Belgian Nuns picture seen at the Royal
Academy last year, Mr. Gemmell Hutchison has
an attractive study of two little children against
a background of greenery, a type of picture in
which he excels.
Mr. Robert Burns's By Candlelight is a strongly Landscape painting maintains the high level of
accentuated realisation of the effect of artificial the Scottish school, and there is no lack of variety
light on the figure of a lady standing by a piano, in its treatment. An imposing decorative panel is
rose pink with blue shadows, and Mr. Robert Mr. E. A. Walton's Wardeti of the Marshes—an
Hope's A Queen of Pageant is effective not only East Anglian landscape its title would imply—
in the arrangement of the figures but in the fine charming in its combination of colour, romantically
scheme of quiet lighting by sunshine through a rendered in the foreground, from which there rises
window. Mr. Eric Robertson's Beauty Luxuriant a group of tall, sparsely foliaged trees into a lofty
shows a capacity for artistic effect that augurs sky with heavy cloud masses near the horizon,
well in such a young painter, and Miss Dorothy The charms of evening light are realised with
Johnstone has achieved another success in her that fine sensitiveness which is so characteristic of
Bona, different in style from anything she has yet the work of Mr. Lawton Wingate, notably in his
exhibited. Mr. Marshall Brown makes a very Summer Evening, and Mr. Robert Burns is no less
decided forward step in his large canvas Waling successful in his large landscape The Castle, in
Potatoes. Not only is it an excellent composition, which Edinburgh's ancient fortress is seen towering
as the illustration shows, but a purer colour has through the gloom in a majesty of form not
" MOONRISE ON THE DORXOCH FIRTH '
I24
(Royal Scottish Academy)
BY WILLIAM WALLS, R.S.A.
day war subjects to the legendary fights of mythical
times, and Mr. John Duncan realises this in his
Valkyries, and means the beholder also to realise
it, by his manner of treatment representing a small
troop of these warriors each coursing with a dead
hero to Valhalla, as a purely decorative subject
with no relation to actuality.
with advantage been employed than has charac-
terised most of his previous work. In addition
to his Belgian Nuns picture seen at the Royal
Academy last year, Mr. Gemmell Hutchison has
an attractive study of two little children against
a background of greenery, a type of picture in
which he excels.
Mr. Robert Burns's By Candlelight is a strongly Landscape painting maintains the high level of
accentuated realisation of the effect of artificial the Scottish school, and there is no lack of variety
light on the figure of a lady standing by a piano, in its treatment. An imposing decorative panel is
rose pink with blue shadows, and Mr. Robert Mr. E. A. Walton's Wardeti of the Marshes—an
Hope's A Queen of Pageant is effective not only East Anglian landscape its title would imply—
in the arrangement of the figures but in the fine charming in its combination of colour, romantically
scheme of quiet lighting by sunshine through a rendered in the foreground, from which there rises
window. Mr. Eric Robertson's Beauty Luxuriant a group of tall, sparsely foliaged trees into a lofty
shows a capacity for artistic effect that augurs sky with heavy cloud masses near the horizon,
well in such a young painter, and Miss Dorothy The charms of evening light are realised with
Johnstone has achieved another success in her that fine sensitiveness which is so characteristic of
Bona, different in style from anything she has yet the work of Mr. Lawton Wingate, notably in his
exhibited. Mr. Marshall Brown makes a very Summer Evening, and Mr. Robert Burns is no less
decided forward step in his large canvas Waling successful in his large landscape The Castle, in
Potatoes. Not only is it an excellent composition, which Edinburgh's ancient fortress is seen towering
as the illustration shows, but a purer colour has through the gloom in a majesty of form not
" MOONRISE ON THE DORXOCH FIRTH '
I24
(Royal Scottish Academy)
BY WILLIAM WALLS, R.S.A.