DOI Heft:
No. 301 (April 1918)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21356#0113
Studio- Talk
a means of affording agreeable relaxation to T "V ARIS.—Harry B. Lachman, a self-made
many to whom the more popular kinds of enter- painter, has just conquered Paris with
tainment do not appeal. his recent exhibition of pictures at the
Georges Petit Galleries. Not only
We learn that the Brighton Public Art Gallery were many of them acquired by well-known
is shortly to receive for its permanent collection French collectors, but the State and the Ville de
a study by the late Leandro Garrido, the gift of Paris also bought canvases for the Musee du
a few friends and a few of the many pupils of Luxembourg and the Petit Palais respectively,
this gifted artist, who spent part of his boyhood -
at Brighton and worked at the local School of Lachman is a luminist—in his canvases one
Art. In 1914 a memorial exhibition of his sees the smiling sincerity of French landscape
works was held there, and a study in oils for his steeped in life. In looking at his pictures, one
picture, His First Offence (Walker Art Gallery, feels the sincerity and dauntless conviction of
Liverpool), was acquired by the Brighton youth, unhampered by academic principles,
gallery. The work now being purchased by When Leonce Benedite, Director of the Musee
subscription from Mrs. Garrido is a black-and- du Luxembourg, asked him in what academy
white study for The Art Critic (Philadelphia he had studied, he received as a reply, " Only in
Museum), and is masterly in characterization the school of Nature." Lachman's life is as
and draughtsmanship. Ow-
ing to the difficulty of cor-
responding with pupils in
distant lands, the presen-
tation of this drawing has
been postponed.
Mr. Arthur R. Todd,
whose pencil drawing The
Hospital Ward we repro-
duce on the opposite page,
hails from Newbyn, where
he received his training,
first under his father, a
member of the colony, and
later under Mr. Stanhope
Forbes, R.A., to whom so
many young artists of the
day are indebted for
counsel and encourage-
ment. Mr. Todd was
among the first to volun-
teer for military service
when war broke out, but
being rejected he went into
munition work and subse-
quently joined the Motor
Transport Section of the
Army Service Corps. This
drawing of his is evidence
of the careful training he
has undergone in draughts-
manship, unfortunately too
much neglected in thisim- "eglise st. Nicholas du chardonnet, paris." by harry b. lachman
patient age. (Purchased by the State for the Musie du Luxembourg)
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a means of affording agreeable relaxation to T "V ARIS.—Harry B. Lachman, a self-made
many to whom the more popular kinds of enter- painter, has just conquered Paris with
tainment do not appeal. his recent exhibition of pictures at the
Georges Petit Galleries. Not only
We learn that the Brighton Public Art Gallery were many of them acquired by well-known
is shortly to receive for its permanent collection French collectors, but the State and the Ville de
a study by the late Leandro Garrido, the gift of Paris also bought canvases for the Musee du
a few friends and a few of the many pupils of Luxembourg and the Petit Palais respectively,
this gifted artist, who spent part of his boyhood -
at Brighton and worked at the local School of Lachman is a luminist—in his canvases one
Art. In 1914 a memorial exhibition of his sees the smiling sincerity of French landscape
works was held there, and a study in oils for his steeped in life. In looking at his pictures, one
picture, His First Offence (Walker Art Gallery, feels the sincerity and dauntless conviction of
Liverpool), was acquired by the Brighton youth, unhampered by academic principles,
gallery. The work now being purchased by When Leonce Benedite, Director of the Musee
subscription from Mrs. Garrido is a black-and- du Luxembourg, asked him in what academy
white study for The Art Critic (Philadelphia he had studied, he received as a reply, " Only in
Museum), and is masterly in characterization the school of Nature." Lachman's life is as
and draughtsmanship. Ow-
ing to the difficulty of cor-
responding with pupils in
distant lands, the presen-
tation of this drawing has
been postponed.
Mr. Arthur R. Todd,
whose pencil drawing The
Hospital Ward we repro-
duce on the opposite page,
hails from Newbyn, where
he received his training,
first under his father, a
member of the colony, and
later under Mr. Stanhope
Forbes, R.A., to whom so
many young artists of the
day are indebted for
counsel and encourage-
ment. Mr. Todd was
among the first to volun-
teer for military service
when war broke out, but
being rejected he went into
munition work and subse-
quently joined the Motor
Transport Section of the
Army Service Corps. This
drawing of his is evidence
of the careful training he
has undergone in draughts-
manship, unfortunately too
much neglected in thisim- "eglise st. Nicholas du chardonnet, paris." by harry b. lachman
patient age. (Purchased by the State for the Musie du Luxembourg)
IO7