DOI issue:
No. 301 (April 1918)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21356#0116
Studio- Talk
•'ie port" (douarnenez) by harry b. lachman
conscientious as his work. As a boy he worked From Lachman's work the Musee du Luxem-
hard to live—in the great city of Chicago, where bourg has perhaps chosen the most interesting
he was born and left an orphan at the age of example—St. Nicholas du Chardonnet, an old
ten. At twenty-five he came to France, where, church enshrined in one of the most venerable
for five years, he has been painting landscapes, spots of Paris, breathing the poetical forlornness
At Philadelphia he had admired the paintings of stones that have outlived the people who laid
of Charles Cottet, and chance brought him into them. The Petit Palais—to-day the Municipal
touch with this great French master almost Museum of Paris—made a widely different
immediately upon his arrival here. The artistic choice in acquiring the Printemps parisien, a
breath of Paris fanned into a blaze the spark of vision of Notre Dame seen through the spring
talent, and soon Lachman's pictures were to be foliage. Nothing can be fresher or gayer than
seen in the Salon Nationale. this symphony of colour. Lachman planted his
- . easel among the uneven stones of the quays on
The principal qualities of his landscapes are the He St. Louis, and though he has perhaps
harmonious construction and sensitive colour, exaggerated the poetic side of the subject to
The subjects are handled in large simple masses, the detriment of the technique he displays in
the palette is forceful and assured. The artist's other canvases, the result is exquisite,
eye quickly discovered the important truth that Willy G. R. Benedictus
is disengaging itself from the eccentricities, _
exaggerations, and errors of the art of to-day.
Colour is a social value, not an individual one ; [Owing to further restrictions on the supply of
every tint is at once the slave, master, and mate paper we are obliged to hold over temporarily
of its neighbour. Nature is but the playground various contributions intended for this number.—
for numberless colours reacting one on the other. Editor.]
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•'ie port" (douarnenez) by harry b. lachman
conscientious as his work. As a boy he worked From Lachman's work the Musee du Luxem-
hard to live—in the great city of Chicago, where bourg has perhaps chosen the most interesting
he was born and left an orphan at the age of example—St. Nicholas du Chardonnet, an old
ten. At twenty-five he came to France, where, church enshrined in one of the most venerable
for five years, he has been painting landscapes, spots of Paris, breathing the poetical forlornness
At Philadelphia he had admired the paintings of stones that have outlived the people who laid
of Charles Cottet, and chance brought him into them. The Petit Palais—to-day the Municipal
touch with this great French master almost Museum of Paris—made a widely different
immediately upon his arrival here. The artistic choice in acquiring the Printemps parisien, a
breath of Paris fanned into a blaze the spark of vision of Notre Dame seen through the spring
talent, and soon Lachman's pictures were to be foliage. Nothing can be fresher or gayer than
seen in the Salon Nationale. this symphony of colour. Lachman planted his
- . easel among the uneven stones of the quays on
The principal qualities of his landscapes are the He St. Louis, and though he has perhaps
harmonious construction and sensitive colour, exaggerated the poetic side of the subject to
The subjects are handled in large simple masses, the detriment of the technique he displays in
the palette is forceful and assured. The artist's other canvases, the result is exquisite,
eye quickly discovered the important truth that Willy G. R. Benedictus
is disengaging itself from the eccentricities, _
exaggerations, and errors of the art of to-day.
Colour is a social value, not an individual one ; [Owing to further restrictions on the supply of
every tint is at once the slave, master, and mate paper we are obliged to hold over temporarily
of its neighbour. Nature is but the playground various contributions intended for this number.—
for numberless colours reacting one on the other. Editor.]
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