DOI Heft:
No. 300 (March 1918)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21356#0079
2 Studio-Talk
' Norfolk landscape" {Society of Scottish Artists) by w. m. frazer, a.r.s.a.
E, DINBURGH.—The special aim of the some of the Society's recent exhibitions. Of
1 Society of Scottish Artists is to stimu- the loan works the most important were Mr.
late the younger painters to produce Ambrose McEvoy's beautiful portrait of Miss
J more original and important works, Asquith, Mr. Augustus John's Smiling Woman
and it is but justice to the Council to say that and his Portrait of Mr. William Nicholson, and
they have done everything in their power to Mr. Walter Sickert's L'Ennui. There were also
foster enterprise in the members. At present, the late Mr. J. M. Swan's The Cold North, Mr.
when war is making such demands on the William Strang's The Buffet, and the late Mr.
younger artists, many of whom are at the front, Robert Noble's large picture of East Linton, the
it was hardly to be expected that the exhibition Lothian village where the artist lived and painted
just concluded would furnish much work of during the greater part of his art career. This
great intellectual achievement or novelty of picture has been acquired by the Burgh of Linton
method, but while a good deal of the work was as a memorial, and is an excellent example of
mediocre and trivial there was evidence that the his conscientious and often inspired work,
excellent teaching facilities now available in -
the city are developing a more accomplished The President, Mr. Robert Home, had for his
technique, a better sense of colour relationship, principal picture a view of Northern Edinburgh
and a greater constructive ability. The rest— with the Firth of Forth in the distance, a
the more vital and enduring qualities—will favourite subject, but on this occasion realized
follow in time. There was this year nothing of with a fuller beauty of colour, tenderness of
the experimental character markedly present in treatment, and sense of atmosphere than ever
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' Norfolk landscape" {Society of Scottish Artists) by w. m. frazer, a.r.s.a.
E, DINBURGH.—The special aim of the some of the Society's recent exhibitions. Of
1 Society of Scottish Artists is to stimu- the loan works the most important were Mr.
late the younger painters to produce Ambrose McEvoy's beautiful portrait of Miss
J more original and important works, Asquith, Mr. Augustus John's Smiling Woman
and it is but justice to the Council to say that and his Portrait of Mr. William Nicholson, and
they have done everything in their power to Mr. Walter Sickert's L'Ennui. There were also
foster enterprise in the members. At present, the late Mr. J. M. Swan's The Cold North, Mr.
when war is making such demands on the William Strang's The Buffet, and the late Mr.
younger artists, many of whom are at the front, Robert Noble's large picture of East Linton, the
it was hardly to be expected that the exhibition Lothian village where the artist lived and painted
just concluded would furnish much work of during the greater part of his art career. This
great intellectual achievement or novelty of picture has been acquired by the Burgh of Linton
method, but while a good deal of the work was as a memorial, and is an excellent example of
mediocre and trivial there was evidence that the his conscientious and often inspired work,
excellent teaching facilities now available in -
the city are developing a more accomplished The President, Mr. Robert Home, had for his
technique, a better sense of colour relationship, principal picture a view of Northern Edinburgh
and a greater constructive ability. The rest— with the Firth of Forth in the distance, a
the more vital and enduring qualities—will favourite subject, but on this occasion realized
follow in time. There was this year nothing of with a fuller beauty of colour, tenderness of
the experimental character markedly present in treatment, and sense of atmosphere than ever
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