DOI Heft:
No. 287 (February 1917)
DOI Artikel:Mortimer-Lamb, Harold: The thirty-eighth exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24576#0038
The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Mr. Leduc is entirely self-taught ; he is not
prolific, but for some years past has been con-
tent to exhibit one or two pictures annually at
the exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy,
or at the Spring Exhibition of the Montreal Art
Association. These examples,, commonly small
in point of size, nevertheless invariably have
commanded attention and interest because of
their charm and expressiveness. To one of the
local exhibitions last year, however, Mr. Leduc
sent a picture which first adequately displayed
his undoubted powers. His very beautiful
landscape Neige doree, just exhibited, was even
more appealing, and one notes with satisfaction
that it has been purchased by the Canadian
Art Commissioners for the National Gallery at
Ottawa, while Mr. Leduc has been further
honoured by the Canadian Academy, who have
elected him an Associate. In his work there is
discerned a certain fine spirituality, expressed
without a suspicion of self-consciousness, and
in no degree detracting from its bigness and
virility. His technique is peculiarly his own.
It is meticulous without being niggardly, and
every stroke of his brush has significance.
Miss May's progress in craftmanship during
the past year has been remarkable, and she has
now attained a mastery that enables her to
give fuller expression to her genuine artistic
ability. Her paintings, usually of landscapes
in which figures are introduced, have never
lacked character; but her recent work has
become more arresting because of qualities of
light and atmosphere that it did not possess
formerly. The Boats on the St. Lawrence, one
of four canvases in this exhibition, has been
purchased by the Canadian Government, and
is characterized in particular by a luminous
opalescence.
Mr. Tom Thomson, like Mr. Leduc, is also
practically self-taught, although he no doubt
is to some extent indebted to Mr. A. Y. Jackson
BY MABEL H. MAY, A R.C.A.
Mr. Leduc is entirely self-taught ; he is not
prolific, but for some years past has been con-
tent to exhibit one or two pictures annually at
the exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy,
or at the Spring Exhibition of the Montreal Art
Association. These examples,, commonly small
in point of size, nevertheless invariably have
commanded attention and interest because of
their charm and expressiveness. To one of the
local exhibitions last year, however, Mr. Leduc
sent a picture which first adequately displayed
his undoubted powers. His very beautiful
landscape Neige doree, just exhibited, was even
more appealing, and one notes with satisfaction
that it has been purchased by the Canadian
Art Commissioners for the National Gallery at
Ottawa, while Mr. Leduc has been further
honoured by the Canadian Academy, who have
elected him an Associate. In his work there is
discerned a certain fine spirituality, expressed
without a suspicion of self-consciousness, and
in no degree detracting from its bigness and
virility. His technique is peculiarly his own.
It is meticulous without being niggardly, and
every stroke of his brush has significance.
Miss May's progress in craftmanship during
the past year has been remarkable, and she has
now attained a mastery that enables her to
give fuller expression to her genuine artistic
ability. Her paintings, usually of landscapes
in which figures are introduced, have never
lacked character; but her recent work has
become more arresting because of qualities of
light and atmosphere that it did not possess
formerly. The Boats on the St. Lawrence, one
of four canvases in this exhibition, has been
purchased by the Canadian Government, and
is characterized in particular by a luminous
opalescence.
Mr. Tom Thomson, like Mr. Leduc, is also
practically self-taught, although he no doubt
is to some extent indebted to Mr. A. Y. Jackson
BY MABEL H. MAY, A R.C.A.