DOI Heft:
No. 292 (July 1917)
DOI Artikel:Eddington, A.: The ninty-first exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21263#0075
The Royal Scottish Academy
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"THE COMING OF BRIDE OIL PAINTING BY JOHN DUNCAN, A.R.S.A,
The section of landscape is particularly distinctive of Constable. The late Mr. Robert
strong. Mr. Lawton Wingate's large picture Noble, whose death since the exhibition opened
Autumn is the finest work he has exhibited on was a great loss to Scottish art, is represented
such a scale during a now long artistic career, by two landscapes of excellent quality. The
His forte has been more in smaller pictures, new academician, Mr. Charles Mackie, justifies
■effects of light and atmosphere, but here we his election by three small pictures of vibrant
have a composition in which the leading feature colour. Mr. Campbell Mitchell shows a small
is the massing of a group of beeches tinged with Galloway landscape of gem-like quality, Mr.
the early autumn colour which in its complete- Robert Burns reposeful studies of sea and shore
ness suggests an earlier period of work than the of fine atmospheric quality, Mr. J. Whitelaw
present. For bold and striking effects Mr. Hamilton a robust Armathwaite landscape,
E. A. Walton has not equalled his landscape Mr. George Houston spring and winter scenes
entitled The Mill. It has all the juicy quality delicately phrased, Mr. W. M. Frazer a poeti-
of his best water-colour work, with the fine cally inspired view in the Broads district, of
massing of cloud and foliage which was so which the outstanding feature is the sky paint-
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H
"THE COMING OF BRIDE OIL PAINTING BY JOHN DUNCAN, A.R.S.A,
The section of landscape is particularly distinctive of Constable. The late Mr. Robert
strong. Mr. Lawton Wingate's large picture Noble, whose death since the exhibition opened
Autumn is the finest work he has exhibited on was a great loss to Scottish art, is represented
such a scale during a now long artistic career, by two landscapes of excellent quality. The
His forte has been more in smaller pictures, new academician, Mr. Charles Mackie, justifies
■effects of light and atmosphere, but here we his election by three small pictures of vibrant
have a composition in which the leading feature colour. Mr. Campbell Mitchell shows a small
is the massing of a group of beeches tinged with Galloway landscape of gem-like quality, Mr.
the early autumn colour which in its complete- Robert Burns reposeful studies of sea and shore
ness suggests an earlier period of work than the of fine atmospheric quality, Mr. J. Whitelaw
present. For bold and striking effects Mr. Hamilton a robust Armathwaite landscape,
E. A. Walton has not equalled his landscape Mr. George Houston spring and winter scenes
entitled The Mill. It has all the juicy quality delicately phrased, Mr. W. M. Frazer a poeti-
of his best water-colour work, with the fine cally inspired view in the Broads district, of
massing of cloud and foliage which was so which the outstanding feature is the sky paint-
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