DOI issue:
No. 308 (November 1918)
DOI article:Taylor, James: The fifty-seventh annual exhibition of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24600#0062
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine A rts
In figure subjects Mr. H. J. Dobson's The show all the vigour and outlook of youth !
Expected Penny claims attention ; Mr. David Mr. Patrick Downie's suggestive Summer Time,
Foggie's The Little Dancer is a well-drawn Firth of Clyde, is the result of a lifetime of
study ; Mr. William Findlay's representation study in natural phenomena. The glamour of
of Tank Julien in a local square in a winter the east coast and the lovely Coldstream dis-
blizzard with closely grouped figures is a clever trict have caught Mr. J. Whitelaw Hamilton
handling of a supremely difficult subject. A in their grip. In the latter neighbourhood he
landscape with figures that cannot be missed is sketched The Mill, a fine composition, tonally
Strawberries and Cream, by Mr. Gemmell pleasing, with clever light effect on masonry
Hutchison ; while Getting Ready, by his son, and green patch in the foreground,
the late Mr. George J. Hutchison, who has made There are three purely decorative studies
the supreme sacrifice for his country, inspires that inspire regret that the art of mural paint-
regret that art should suffer such deprivation ing is in such small demand, particularly at a
at the hand of war. time like the present—Mary in the House of
Surely the doyen of Glasgow artists is Mr. Elizabeth, by Mr. R. Anning Bell, supreme
Robert W. Allan ; forty years ago and ever in draughtsmanship and colouring; Vanity,
since he has contributed to the Institute's by Mr. D. Forrester Wilson, one of the life
annual exhibitions, and this year his two masters at the Glasgow School of Art, a work of
seascapes and a charming autumnal study rare imagination and decorative charm; and
VANITY OTL PAINTING BY D. FORRESTER WILSON
54
In figure subjects Mr. H. J. Dobson's The show all the vigour and outlook of youth !
Expected Penny claims attention ; Mr. David Mr. Patrick Downie's suggestive Summer Time,
Foggie's The Little Dancer is a well-drawn Firth of Clyde, is the result of a lifetime of
study ; Mr. William Findlay's representation study in natural phenomena. The glamour of
of Tank Julien in a local square in a winter the east coast and the lovely Coldstream dis-
blizzard with closely grouped figures is a clever trict have caught Mr. J. Whitelaw Hamilton
handling of a supremely difficult subject. A in their grip. In the latter neighbourhood he
landscape with figures that cannot be missed is sketched The Mill, a fine composition, tonally
Strawberries and Cream, by Mr. Gemmell pleasing, with clever light effect on masonry
Hutchison ; while Getting Ready, by his son, and green patch in the foreground,
the late Mr. George J. Hutchison, who has made There are three purely decorative studies
the supreme sacrifice for his country, inspires that inspire regret that the art of mural paint-
regret that art should suffer such deprivation ing is in such small demand, particularly at a
at the hand of war. time like the present—Mary in the House of
Surely the doyen of Glasgow artists is Mr. Elizabeth, by Mr. R. Anning Bell, supreme
Robert W. Allan ; forty years ago and ever in draughtsmanship and colouring; Vanity,
since he has contributed to the Institute's by Mr. D. Forrester Wilson, one of the life
annual exhibitions, and this year his two masters at the Glasgow School of Art, a work of
seascapes and a charming autumnal study rare imagination and decorative charm; and
VANITY OTL PAINTING BY D. FORRESTER WILSON
54