DOI issue:
No. 312 (March 1919)
DOI article:The Society of Twenty-five Painters
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21357#0056
The Society of Twenty-five Painters
Galleries, deserves so sincere a welcome. It
presents a collection in which there is a serious
and consistent artistic purpose, and in which a
judiciously limited number of painters of dis-
tinction do themselves full justice. It is large
enough to be agreeably varied and to show many
phases ot accomplishment, but it is not so large
that all the things in it cannot be appreciatively
studied and properly considered, and certainly
it will not weary the man who likes to have his
aesthetic emotions stimulated with moderation
and propriety. It is worth studying, too,
because the quality of the work in it is excel-
lently maintained and its atmosphere is whole-
somely satisfying; and if it provides some
notable contrasts of styles it does not strike
any perversely sensational note.
For another reason this exhibition is to be
welcomed—it marks the resumption of the
activities of a society which has been in suspen-
sion during the war after a previous record of
seven years' valuable work. Founded in 1905,
it held its first show in the Dowdeswell Galleries
in the autumn of that year, commencing then a
series which included exhibitions in Berlin and
other German cities in the • early months of
1906; at the Dowdeswell Galleries in October
1906; at the Barcelona Exhibition and the Goupil
Galleries in 1907 ; in Germany, at Brighton, and
in the Goupil Galleries in 1908; at the Inter-
national Exhibition at Santiago de Chile in
1910; at the Coronation Exhibition at the White
City in 1911, and in New Zealand in 1912. One
other exhibition was in preparation when war
broke out, but this was abandoned. Now,
however, it is to be hoped that the society will
be able to continue its career without interrup-
tion, for it has done good service to British art
at home and abroad and has followed success-
fully a sound policy ; and there seems to be no
reason why its future should not be as dis-
tinguished as its past.
Galleries, deserves so sincere a welcome. It
presents a collection in which there is a serious
and consistent artistic purpose, and in which a
judiciously limited number of painters of dis-
tinction do themselves full justice. It is large
enough to be agreeably varied and to show many
phases ot accomplishment, but it is not so large
that all the things in it cannot be appreciatively
studied and properly considered, and certainly
it will not weary the man who likes to have his
aesthetic emotions stimulated with moderation
and propriety. It is worth studying, too,
because the quality of the work in it is excel-
lently maintained and its atmosphere is whole-
somely satisfying; and if it provides some
notable contrasts of styles it does not strike
any perversely sensational note.
For another reason this exhibition is to be
welcomed—it marks the resumption of the
activities of a society which has been in suspen-
sion during the war after a previous record of
seven years' valuable work. Founded in 1905,
it held its first show in the Dowdeswell Galleries
in the autumn of that year, commencing then a
series which included exhibitions in Berlin and
other German cities in the • early months of
1906; at the Dowdeswell Galleries in October
1906; at the Barcelona Exhibition and the Goupil
Galleries in 1907 ; in Germany, at Brighton, and
in the Goupil Galleries in 1908; at the Inter-
national Exhibition at Santiago de Chile in
1910; at the Coronation Exhibition at the White
City in 1911, and in New Zealand in 1912. One
other exhibition was in preparation when war
broke out, but this was abandoned. Now,
however, it is to be hoped that the society will
be able to continue its career without interrup-
tion, for it has done good service to British art
at home and abroad and has followed success-
fully a sound policy ; and there seems to be no
reason why its future should not be as dis-
tinguished as its past.