DOI issue:
No. 299 (February 1918)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21356#0038
Studio- Talk
V
HILADELPHIA.
—War drawings,
English and
American, by
Mr. Joseph Pennell were
the leading features of
the Fifteenth Annual
Water - Colour Exhibition
and the Sixteenth Annual
Exhibition of Miniatures
held at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts
from November 4 to De-
cember 9, 1917. It might
seem superfluous to com-
ment at any length upon
the quality of the works
of an artist so well known
on both sides of the
Atlantic, but a few words
of appreciation of Pen-
nell's extraordinary dis-
play of artistic perception
as applied to material
that does not usually
appeal to the painter,
" A COMRADE'S LAST TRIBUTE" BY .C. MARECA may nQt seem Qut Qf pkce
(British Columbia Society oT Fine Arts) here_ Forty.laine of these
black - and - whites illus-
student, who is now employed by the British trate English work in the coal-mines, gun-
Columbia Government as Director of Technical foundries, forges, shipyards, and balloon-sheds,
Training ; W. P. Weston, also a South Ken- and fifty-eight deal with similar industries in
sington student and now instructor in art in America, drawn with the authorization of the
the Vancouver Normal School for teachers : United States Government and exhibited by
and Margaret Longden, formerly a member of permission of the War and Navy Depart-
the Society of Miniaturists, London. Among ments. Charm of light and shade, of line and
members who have had the advantage of of colour-values expressed by the lithographic
European training in the continental schools pencil, have glorified scenes and incidents of
are Margaret S. Wake, John Kyle, Edith H. industrial activity without weakening in any
Killam, C. Marega (Rome, Florence, and Paris), way the vitality of the presentation. These
J.jjW. Keagey, and H. J. De Forest. Australian drawings might well illustrate the epic Poem of
artistic training is represented by Stanley Labour, so successful are they in giving form
Tytler and Norman H. Hawkins. to the essentials of war work. The foreword to
- the catalogue is from the pen of Mr. H. G. Wells,
Beginning as a small group of artists, the the novelist, and the artist has added notes of
Society has overcome the initial difficulties comment upon each of his contributions.
which almost invariably beset enterprises of --
this kind and is now recognized by the western Painting in water-colours had a good showing
public as a representative body in artistic in a group by Mr. Charles H. Woodbury, in the
matters. Its exhibitions have shown a gradual place of honour in the gallery reserved for the
improvement in the character of the works most notable work. Mr. Wm. H. de B. Nelson
exhibited, and so it has good reason to look for- contributed a group of capital sketches of old
ward to the future with confidence. B. M. buildings at Chester Springs, admirable examples
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V
HILADELPHIA.
—War drawings,
English and
American, by
Mr. Joseph Pennell were
the leading features of
the Fifteenth Annual
Water - Colour Exhibition
and the Sixteenth Annual
Exhibition of Miniatures
held at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts
from November 4 to De-
cember 9, 1917. It might
seem superfluous to com-
ment at any length upon
the quality of the works
of an artist so well known
on both sides of the
Atlantic, but a few words
of appreciation of Pen-
nell's extraordinary dis-
play of artistic perception
as applied to material
that does not usually
appeal to the painter,
" A COMRADE'S LAST TRIBUTE" BY .C. MARECA may nQt seem Qut Qf pkce
(British Columbia Society oT Fine Arts) here_ Forty.laine of these
black - and - whites illus-
student, who is now employed by the British trate English work in the coal-mines, gun-
Columbia Government as Director of Technical foundries, forges, shipyards, and balloon-sheds,
Training ; W. P. Weston, also a South Ken- and fifty-eight deal with similar industries in
sington student and now instructor in art in America, drawn with the authorization of the
the Vancouver Normal School for teachers : United States Government and exhibited by
and Margaret Longden, formerly a member of permission of the War and Navy Depart-
the Society of Miniaturists, London. Among ments. Charm of light and shade, of line and
members who have had the advantage of of colour-values expressed by the lithographic
European training in the continental schools pencil, have glorified scenes and incidents of
are Margaret S. Wake, John Kyle, Edith H. industrial activity without weakening in any
Killam, C. Marega (Rome, Florence, and Paris), way the vitality of the presentation. These
J.jjW. Keagey, and H. J. De Forest. Australian drawings might well illustrate the epic Poem of
artistic training is represented by Stanley Labour, so successful are they in giving form
Tytler and Norman H. Hawkins. to the essentials of war work. The foreword to
- the catalogue is from the pen of Mr. H. G. Wells,
Beginning as a small group of artists, the the novelist, and the artist has added notes of
Society has overcome the initial difficulties comment upon each of his contributions.
which almost invariably beset enterprises of --
this kind and is now recognized by the western Painting in water-colours had a good showing
public as a representative body in artistic in a group by Mr. Charles H. Woodbury, in the
matters. Its exhibitions have shown a gradual place of honour in the gallery reserved for the
improvement in the character of the works most notable work. Mr. Wm. H. de B. Nelson
exhibited, and so it has good reason to look for- contributed a group of capital sketches of old
ward to the future with confidence. B. M. buildings at Chester Springs, admirable examples
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