DOI issue:
No. 314 (May 1919)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21357#0165
Studio- Talk
art. The placid flow of the river by the city
wharves was equally well depicted by Mr. Fred
Wagner in Winter Afternoon, and Mr. Paul
King's Sailing Boats was finely tonal and atmos-
pheric. Beautiful in colour was Mr. Emil Carl-
sen's waterfall with Mist and the Rainbow. In
his usual good form was Mr. Edward W. Red-
field in The Canal at Centre Bridge.
The display of sculpture was not very impres-
sive, a regrettable fact, as it has been a matter
of public information that some good work was
declined. However, there were shown a number
of .portrait busts that had strongly marked cha-
racter, Mr. Charles Grafly's Childe Hassam, for
instance ; a fine American eagle in Mr. Albert
Laessle's Victory, and a modern treatment of
an old subject in Mother and Infant Hercules
by Mr. Friedlander. E. C.
MONTREAL.—It can scarcely be said
that the recent exhibition (the
fortieth of the annual series) of the
Royal Canadian Academy was par-
ticularly remarkable. In general the work
shown was praiseworthy, but except in a few
instances it afforded little evidence of definite
creative impulse, of any passionate, any in-
satiable craving for self-expression. What was
said was well enough said, but mostly it had
been said before, and perhaps more expressively.
The exhibition, moreover, suffered in com-
parison with some former ones in that such dis-
tinguished Canadian artists as J. W. Morrice and
Ernest Lawson, whose paintings in past years
have added so materially to the interest, were
not represented on this occasion ; while the virile
work of Mr. Maurice Cullen, who has been on
overseas service with the Canadian War Records
'wild ducks' {Royal Canadian Academy) by j. e. h. macdonald, a.r.c.a.
149
art. The placid flow of the river by the city
wharves was equally well depicted by Mr. Fred
Wagner in Winter Afternoon, and Mr. Paul
King's Sailing Boats was finely tonal and atmos-
pheric. Beautiful in colour was Mr. Emil Carl-
sen's waterfall with Mist and the Rainbow. In
his usual good form was Mr. Edward W. Red-
field in The Canal at Centre Bridge.
The display of sculpture was not very impres-
sive, a regrettable fact, as it has been a matter
of public information that some good work was
declined. However, there were shown a number
of .portrait busts that had strongly marked cha-
racter, Mr. Charles Grafly's Childe Hassam, for
instance ; a fine American eagle in Mr. Albert
Laessle's Victory, and a modern treatment of
an old subject in Mother and Infant Hercules
by Mr. Friedlander. E. C.
MONTREAL.—It can scarcely be said
that the recent exhibition (the
fortieth of the annual series) of the
Royal Canadian Academy was par-
ticularly remarkable. In general the work
shown was praiseworthy, but except in a few
instances it afforded little evidence of definite
creative impulse, of any passionate, any in-
satiable craving for self-expression. What was
said was well enough said, but mostly it had
been said before, and perhaps more expressively.
The exhibition, moreover, suffered in com-
parison with some former ones in that such dis-
tinguished Canadian artists as J. W. Morrice and
Ernest Lawson, whose paintings in past years
have added so materially to the interest, were
not represented on this occasion ; while the virile
work of Mr. Maurice Cullen, who has been on
overseas service with the Canadian War Records
'wild ducks' {Royal Canadian Academy) by j. e. h. macdonald, a.r.c.a.
149