DOI issue:
No. 315
DOI article:The royal academy exhibition, 1919
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21358#0022
THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION
DETAIL OF RELIEF
"THE REFUGEES”
BY W. MCMILLAN
Umbra, by Mr. Walter Bayes, is of great
interest as a courageous working out of a
difficult pictorial problem. In Mr. Spencer
Watson’s group, The Donkey Ride, there
is an unquestionable beauty of design
and draughtsmanship. He has brought
the new spirit into sound accord with what
is worth preserving of the earlier tradition.
The landscape-painters have, on the
whole, done themselves justice. Mr.
Arnesby Brown and Mr. D. Y. Cameron
both touch an unusually high level of
achievement; and there are plenty of
others who well maintain their estab-
lished reputations. Sir David Murray's
Woodland Frolic, Mr. Coutts Michie's
Winter's Crest, Sir E. A. Waterlow’s The
Wetterhorn, Mr. Lamorna Birch’s Lamorna,
Mr. R. W. Allan’s coast scene, Wives
and Mithers, Mr. Moffat Lindner's
Sunset, and the two delightful atmos-
pheric studies, Red and Gold, Brix-
ham, and Mist and Morning Sunshine, by
Mr. Terrick Williams, are very helpful to
the exhibition; and a hearty welcome
must also be given to such excellent things
as the two romantic landscape compositions
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by Mr. Tom Mostyn, Mr. A. J. Black's
Poetess and Falling Leaves and In Grateful
Shade, Mr. Sydney Lee's vast canvas The
River's Source, the large sea-piece The
Merchant Service by Mr. Norman Wilkin-
son, and Mr. Cecil King's Port of Danzig,
Jan. 1919. a a a a a
There are not so many portraits this year
as usual but there are a few of unques-
tionable power—for instance. Sir W.
Orpen's Michael Wemyss, Esq., Mr. Melton
Fisher's singularly attractive Nina Caroline
Ogilvie Grant, Countess of Seafield, Mr.
J. J. Shannon’s Mrs. George Dance, Mr.
Hacker’s The Right Hon. Sir William Bull,
M.P., Mr. Jack’s Amber and Blue, Mr.
Glyn Philpot's The Right Hon. Lord Birken-
head, and Mr. Glazebrook's Mrs. Pryor.
Notable also are Sir W. Llewellyn’s The
Hon. Lady McCalmont, Mr. F. P. Wild’s
Enid, Mr. Solomon's Charles Gilt, Esq.,
K. C., Mr. Patry's The Countess of Carn-
wath, and the delightfully original Portrait
of a Lady by Mr. Sims, a 0 0
The sculpture is more varied and repre-
sentative than it was last year, and shows
substantial signs of progress. 0 0
DETAIL OF RELIEF
"THE REFUGEES”
BY W. MCMILLAN
Umbra, by Mr. Walter Bayes, is of great
interest as a courageous working out of a
difficult pictorial problem. In Mr. Spencer
Watson’s group, The Donkey Ride, there
is an unquestionable beauty of design
and draughtsmanship. He has brought
the new spirit into sound accord with what
is worth preserving of the earlier tradition.
The landscape-painters have, on the
whole, done themselves justice. Mr.
Arnesby Brown and Mr. D. Y. Cameron
both touch an unusually high level of
achievement; and there are plenty of
others who well maintain their estab-
lished reputations. Sir David Murray's
Woodland Frolic, Mr. Coutts Michie's
Winter's Crest, Sir E. A. Waterlow’s The
Wetterhorn, Mr. Lamorna Birch’s Lamorna,
Mr. R. W. Allan’s coast scene, Wives
and Mithers, Mr. Moffat Lindner's
Sunset, and the two delightful atmos-
pheric studies, Red and Gold, Brix-
ham, and Mist and Morning Sunshine, by
Mr. Terrick Williams, are very helpful to
the exhibition; and a hearty welcome
must also be given to such excellent things
as the two romantic landscape compositions
6
by Mr. Tom Mostyn, Mr. A. J. Black's
Poetess and Falling Leaves and In Grateful
Shade, Mr. Sydney Lee's vast canvas The
River's Source, the large sea-piece The
Merchant Service by Mr. Norman Wilkin-
son, and Mr. Cecil King's Port of Danzig,
Jan. 1919. a a a a a
There are not so many portraits this year
as usual but there are a few of unques-
tionable power—for instance. Sir W.
Orpen's Michael Wemyss, Esq., Mr. Melton
Fisher's singularly attractive Nina Caroline
Ogilvie Grant, Countess of Seafield, Mr.
J. J. Shannon’s Mrs. George Dance, Mr.
Hacker’s The Right Hon. Sir William Bull,
M.P., Mr. Jack’s Amber and Blue, Mr.
Glyn Philpot's The Right Hon. Lord Birken-
head, and Mr. Glazebrook's Mrs. Pryor.
Notable also are Sir W. Llewellyn’s The
Hon. Lady McCalmont, Mr. F. P. Wild’s
Enid, Mr. Solomon's Charles Gilt, Esq.,
K. C., Mr. Patry's The Countess of Carn-
wath, and the delightfully original Portrait
of a Lady by Mr. Sims, a 0 0
The sculpture is more varied and repre-
sentative than it was last year, and shows
substantial signs of progress. 0 0