DOI Heft:
No. 294 (September 1917)
DOI Artikel:Marriott, Charles: The work of Arnesby Brown, R. A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21263#0146
The Recent IVork of Ames by Brown, R.A.
unaffectedly human, and his handling of paint perament a lover of twilight and undertones,
so characteristic and consistent, that there is no and it is noteworthy that comparatively few
risk of confusing the simplest of his admirers as of his pictures are concerned with spring or
to the relationship between art and nature ; autumn. Full summer and the middle of the
and few artists can have done more to carry day are his time and season ; he is pre-eminently
the plain person insensibly from an appreciation the painter of " Royal June." As a glance at
of landscape in nature into an appreciation of our illustrations will show, he takes the whole
painting for its own sake. " day " rather than the mere physical features
If personalities may be allowed, there is a of the landscape for his subject ; there is no
remarkable harmony between Mr. Brown's separate consideration of earth and sky, of
name, his appearance, and his pictures. All are objects and lighting, of character and atmo-
strongly and directly English. You might sphere. All the factors are regarded as unity,
almost deduce from his work that he is a big as a particular sort of day, with a sculptural
man, of quiet manners, slow movements, and character in the sky as well as in the more solid
few words ; with at least a general taste for elements. Trees interest him as cliffy masses
field sports. You would guess rightly that he rather than as individual organisms ; indeed, I
has been a cricketer and still cares about do not remember any picture of his that showed
fishing. Not only is his work intensely English, any inclination to dwell on the tracery of
but it is intensely masculine. He is emphati- boughs. Even his cattle are felt as parts of
cally a man's painter. Though he has painted the whole, so that his profound knowledge of
some charming nocturnes he is not by tem- their anatomy is concealed rather than exposed
" OCTOBER'
130
OIL PAINTING BY ARNESBY BROWN, R.A.
unaffectedly human, and his handling of paint perament a lover of twilight and undertones,
so characteristic and consistent, that there is no and it is noteworthy that comparatively few
risk of confusing the simplest of his admirers as of his pictures are concerned with spring or
to the relationship between art and nature ; autumn. Full summer and the middle of the
and few artists can have done more to carry day are his time and season ; he is pre-eminently
the plain person insensibly from an appreciation the painter of " Royal June." As a glance at
of landscape in nature into an appreciation of our illustrations will show, he takes the whole
painting for its own sake. " day " rather than the mere physical features
If personalities may be allowed, there is a of the landscape for his subject ; there is no
remarkable harmony between Mr. Brown's separate consideration of earth and sky, of
name, his appearance, and his pictures. All are objects and lighting, of character and atmo-
strongly and directly English. You might sphere. All the factors are regarded as unity,
almost deduce from his work that he is a big as a particular sort of day, with a sculptural
man, of quiet manners, slow movements, and character in the sky as well as in the more solid
few words ; with at least a general taste for elements. Trees interest him as cliffy masses
field sports. You would guess rightly that he rather than as individual organisms ; indeed, I
has been a cricketer and still cares about do not remember any picture of his that showed
fishing. Not only is his work intensely English, any inclination to dwell on the tracery of
but it is intensely masculine. He is emphati- boughs. Even his cattle are felt as parts of
cally a man's painter. Though he has painted the whole, so that his profound knowledge of
some charming nocturnes he is not by tem- their anatomy is concealed rather than exposed
" OCTOBER'
130
OIL PAINTING BY ARNESBY BROWN, R.A.