DOI Heft:
No. 301 (April 1918)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21356#0108
Studio- Talk
had practically no opportunity for painting, a nearer approximation to pre-war activity than
his subsequent work, so far from showing any any since the great conflict of nations began in
deterioration, discloses in certain respects an 1914. The evidence of this is not so much the
undoubted advance. Whether in oils or water- fact that practically all the leading art societies
colour his work always bears the stamp of spon- have held or are holding their exhibitions as
taneity, and indeed the invigorating freshness usual, as the greater number of " one man "
alike of his outdoor pictures and his portraits shows at the various galleries, not all of which
is due to his rare capacity for recording his by any means base their appeal on any con-
impressions on the instant. It may be men- nexion with the events of the day. We are sure
tioned that since the beginning of the war two that the meaning of this reawakening of interest
public galleries in the provinces have acquired in art is not that its devotees and patrons
oil paintings by him—Brighton a study of a are indifferent to the great issues that are being
girl's head, and Liverpool The Amateur Rider, decided on the field of battle, but rather that
which we reproduced to illustrate the article the influence of art under circumstances like
above mentioned. the present is recognized to be both wholesome
and necessary, and the fact that the organization
This month also Mr. Alfred Rich is having a of exhibitions does not make any more than a
special exhibition of his landscapes at the very trifling demand on the energies of the
Walker Gallery in New Bond Street. As a nation is all in favour of their continuance, as
loyal interpreter of the
beauties of English land-
scape Mr. Rich has few
compeers. His Sussex
Downs, his woods, his calm
canals, and above all the
low-lying fields, carrying
one away to the soft dis-
tant hills beyond, seem
almost as much a part
of one's life as the view
from the window, and it is
this homeliness that makes
his pictures so companion-
able. It is one of their
merits, too, that while they
evince due respect for the
best traditions of landscape
painting, they are modern
in feeling.
Notwithstanding the
strained conditions of the
times and the fact that
very few male artists
below middle age have
any but meagre oppor-
tunities of following their
calling, and many others,
women as well as men,
are engaged on National
Service of one or other
kind, the London art sea- 'the hawk" water-colour by frederic whiting
SOn Of I918 Shows perhaps (Leicester Galleries)
102
had practically no opportunity for painting, a nearer approximation to pre-war activity than
his subsequent work, so far from showing any any since the great conflict of nations began in
deterioration, discloses in certain respects an 1914. The evidence of this is not so much the
undoubted advance. Whether in oils or water- fact that practically all the leading art societies
colour his work always bears the stamp of spon- have held or are holding their exhibitions as
taneity, and indeed the invigorating freshness usual, as the greater number of " one man "
alike of his outdoor pictures and his portraits shows at the various galleries, not all of which
is due to his rare capacity for recording his by any means base their appeal on any con-
impressions on the instant. It may be men- nexion with the events of the day. We are sure
tioned that since the beginning of the war two that the meaning of this reawakening of interest
public galleries in the provinces have acquired in art is not that its devotees and patrons
oil paintings by him—Brighton a study of a are indifferent to the great issues that are being
girl's head, and Liverpool The Amateur Rider, decided on the field of battle, but rather that
which we reproduced to illustrate the article the influence of art under circumstances like
above mentioned. the present is recognized to be both wholesome
and necessary, and the fact that the organization
This month also Mr. Alfred Rich is having a of exhibitions does not make any more than a
special exhibition of his landscapes at the very trifling demand on the energies of the
Walker Gallery in New Bond Street. As a nation is all in favour of their continuance, as
loyal interpreter of the
beauties of English land-
scape Mr. Rich has few
compeers. His Sussex
Downs, his woods, his calm
canals, and above all the
low-lying fields, carrying
one away to the soft dis-
tant hills beyond, seem
almost as much a part
of one's life as the view
from the window, and it is
this homeliness that makes
his pictures so companion-
able. It is one of their
merits, too, that while they
evince due respect for the
best traditions of landscape
painting, they are modern
in feeling.
Notwithstanding the
strained conditions of the
times and the fact that
very few male artists
below middle age have
any but meagre oppor-
tunities of following their
calling, and many others,
women as well as men,
are engaged on National
Service of one or other
kind, the London art sea- 'the hawk" water-colour by frederic whiting
SOn Of I918 Shows perhaps (Leicester Galleries)
102