DOI Heft:
No. 307 (October 1918)
DOI Artikel:Finberg, Alexander Joseph: The recent work of Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton, A.R.A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24600#0012
The Recent Work of Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton, A.R.A.
list of those galleries which have succeeded in
acquiring works of his is too long for me to give,
but it includes the municipal galleries at Man-
chester, Bradford, Bristol, Newcastle, Oldham,
.and Brighton ; the Walker Art Gallery, Liver-
pool ; as well as the Aberdeen Gallery and the
Welsh National Gallery. In the Dominions the
Sydney, Adelaide, Auckland, and Wellington
National Galleries have bought examples of his
work. It may be urged that these honours prove
nothing—that public galleries often buy works by
indifferent artists, and that official recognition
often goes astray. Such objections, however, can
carry little weight with those who have seen the
works which have earned these honours for Mr.
Hughes-Stanton. To those who have watched
the steady succession of masterpieces with which
he has enriched the recent exhibitions of the
Royal Academy, whose hearts have been
touched by the sincerity and moved by the
lofty appeal, the dignity and imaginative power
of pictures like Hurt Hill, Haslemere ; Winter,
Hampshire ; and Welsh Hills near Barmouth, it
is matter for rejoicing to find that real merit is
sometimes recognized at once, even in England
and the Colonies, and that it is not always that
we wait till after a great artist is dead before we
appreciate his works.
For so young an artist as Hughes-Stanton to
have fairly earned such widespread recognition
proves that his work possesses a very happy
combination of many different qualities. He is
not the idol of any particular set or clique. He
is not merely what is called " a painter's
painter " any more than he is a merely popular
painter. His work appeals to all men of sense
and imagination, to the general public and to
artists of all kinds. He seems to have resolved,
by some peculiar personal felicity, the difficult
art of pleasing everybody—a feat more difficult
of accomplishment nowadays, when so many
different and apparently contradictory ideals
" WINTER, HAMPSHIRE '
6
BY H. HUGHES-STANTON, A.R.A.
{In the possession of Sir Gilbert Wills, Bart., M.P.)
list of those galleries which have succeeded in
acquiring works of his is too long for me to give,
but it includes the municipal galleries at Man-
chester, Bradford, Bristol, Newcastle, Oldham,
.and Brighton ; the Walker Art Gallery, Liver-
pool ; as well as the Aberdeen Gallery and the
Welsh National Gallery. In the Dominions the
Sydney, Adelaide, Auckland, and Wellington
National Galleries have bought examples of his
work. It may be urged that these honours prove
nothing—that public galleries often buy works by
indifferent artists, and that official recognition
often goes astray. Such objections, however, can
carry little weight with those who have seen the
works which have earned these honours for Mr.
Hughes-Stanton. To those who have watched
the steady succession of masterpieces with which
he has enriched the recent exhibitions of the
Royal Academy, whose hearts have been
touched by the sincerity and moved by the
lofty appeal, the dignity and imaginative power
of pictures like Hurt Hill, Haslemere ; Winter,
Hampshire ; and Welsh Hills near Barmouth, it
is matter for rejoicing to find that real merit is
sometimes recognized at once, even in England
and the Colonies, and that it is not always that
we wait till after a great artist is dead before we
appreciate his works.
For so young an artist as Hughes-Stanton to
have fairly earned such widespread recognition
proves that his work possesses a very happy
combination of many different qualities. He is
not the idol of any particular set or clique. He
is not merely what is called " a painter's
painter " any more than he is a merely popular
painter. His work appeals to all men of sense
and imagination, to the general public and to
artists of all kinds. He seems to have resolved,
by some peculiar personal felicity, the difficult
art of pleasing everybody—a feat more difficult
of accomplishment nowadays, when so many
different and apparently contradictory ideals
" WINTER, HAMPSHIRE '
6
BY H. HUGHES-STANTON, A.R.A.
{In the possession of Sir Gilbert Wills, Bart., M.P.)