DOI issue:
No. 315
DOI article:The royal academy exhibition, 1919
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21358#0021
THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION
“THE CAPTURE OF
JEANNE D’ARC”
POTTERY GROUP BY
STANLEY THOROGOOD
ing picture in the show ; and it is also true
that he is responsible for the most note-
worthy portrait—that of President Wilson,
which as a study of character and as a piece
of masterly accomplishment takes rank
among the best things that Mr. Sargent has
done. Another portrait and two of those
brilliant open-air studies which he treats
with so much understanding complete his
group of contributions. a a a
Of the other figure-paintings which can
be counted as specially significant few have
as great charm as the two fantasies by
Mr. Sims, And the Fairies ran away with
their Clothes and The Vase, both of which
are delightful in their beauty of quality
and their subtlety of expression; but
sincere appreciation is due to such excel-
lent productions as Mr. George Harcourt’s
sombrely powerful Late News; Mr. Edgar
Bundy's effective finished sketch for the
large picture painted by him for the Cana-
dian War Memorial collection; Mr. Greif-
fenhagen's decorative compositions, The
Battle of Langside and The Sirens; Mr.
Cadogan Cowper’s patiently elaborated
Cathedral Scene from “ Faust ” ; Mr.
C. H. Shannon's romantically conceived
Summer Sea; and the two pictures by
Mr. Anning Bell, Mary on the House-top
and The Way from Calvary, which have all
his characteristic qualities of style and
colour-arrangement. Mr. Fred Roe's The
Return of the Victors is full of vitality and
is very capable in handling; and Mr.
W. E. Webster's delightfully skilful Pup-
pets, Mr. Cayley Robinson's severe and
restrained Inland Sea, Mr. H. Lintott's
Festival, and Miss Codrington's confi-
dently painted canvas. The Tavern, are all
well deserving of consideration. , 0 a
The vast study of sunlight, Pulvis et
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“THE CAPTURE OF
JEANNE D’ARC”
POTTERY GROUP BY
STANLEY THOROGOOD
ing picture in the show ; and it is also true
that he is responsible for the most note-
worthy portrait—that of President Wilson,
which as a study of character and as a piece
of masterly accomplishment takes rank
among the best things that Mr. Sargent has
done. Another portrait and two of those
brilliant open-air studies which he treats
with so much understanding complete his
group of contributions. a a a
Of the other figure-paintings which can
be counted as specially significant few have
as great charm as the two fantasies by
Mr. Sims, And the Fairies ran away with
their Clothes and The Vase, both of which
are delightful in their beauty of quality
and their subtlety of expression; but
sincere appreciation is due to such excel-
lent productions as Mr. George Harcourt’s
sombrely powerful Late News; Mr. Edgar
Bundy's effective finished sketch for the
large picture painted by him for the Cana-
dian War Memorial collection; Mr. Greif-
fenhagen's decorative compositions, The
Battle of Langside and The Sirens; Mr.
Cadogan Cowper’s patiently elaborated
Cathedral Scene from “ Faust ” ; Mr.
C. H. Shannon's romantically conceived
Summer Sea; and the two pictures by
Mr. Anning Bell, Mary on the House-top
and The Way from Calvary, which have all
his characteristic qualities of style and
colour-arrangement. Mr. Fred Roe's The
Return of the Victors is full of vitality and
is very capable in handling; and Mr.
W. E. Webster's delightfully skilful Pup-
pets, Mr. Cayley Robinson's severe and
restrained Inland Sea, Mr. H. Lintott's
Festival, and Miss Codrington's confi-
dently painted canvas. The Tavern, are all
well deserving of consideration. , 0 a
The vast study of sunlight, Pulvis et
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