DOI Heft:
No. 313 (April 1919)
DOI Artikel:Some paintings by Edward Borough Johnson
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21357#0106
Paintings by E. Borough Johnson
THE OLD TITHE BARN OIL PAINTING BY E. BOROUGH JOHNSON
certainly is no follower of any of the eccentric to settle according to the promptings of his
conventions with which the would-be reformers own temperament, and in the manner that he
of modern art are amusing themselves, and there believes to be best suited to his natural and
can be no question about the sanity of his personal characteristics.
intentions. His convictions are those of the So far, indeed, does he carry this independence
artist who looks at the material available for of his that he has not settled down, as so
his work with wholesome detachment of mind, many artists do, into any particular preference
and decides for himself—without the assistance in art. In fact, he has an unusually catholic
of a formula—how it ought to be treated. In taste in selection of subjects, and he is just as
forming these convictions he trusts to his own broad-minded in his choice of the way in
first-hand experience, and is guided by the which each of these subjects should be inter-
knowledge of his subject, which he has acquired preted—it would be true to say of him that
by direct personal observation. He does not he allows the subject to influence the technical
want to be told how he should put his ideas method he employs, and that the mental im-
into pictorial form ; that is a matter he prefers pression made upon him by the motive de-
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THE OLD TITHE BARN OIL PAINTING BY E. BOROUGH JOHNSON
certainly is no follower of any of the eccentric to settle according to the promptings of his
conventions with which the would-be reformers own temperament, and in the manner that he
of modern art are amusing themselves, and there believes to be best suited to his natural and
can be no question about the sanity of his personal characteristics.
intentions. His convictions are those of the So far, indeed, does he carry this independence
artist who looks at the material available for of his that he has not settled down, as so
his work with wholesome detachment of mind, many artists do, into any particular preference
and decides for himself—without the assistance in art. In fact, he has an unusually catholic
of a formula—how it ought to be treated. In taste in selection of subjects, and he is just as
forming these convictions he trusts to his own broad-minded in his choice of the way in
first-hand experience, and is guided by the which each of these subjects should be inter-
knowledge of his subject, which he has acquired preted—it would be true to say of him that
by direct personal observation. He does not he allows the subject to influence the technical
want to be told how he should put his ideas method he employs, and that the mental im-
into pictorial form ; that is a matter he prefers pression made upon him by the motive de-
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