DOI issue:
No. 321 (December 1919)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21359#0124
STUDIO-TALK
W. Goscombe John, R.A., and others.
Mr. W. Reid Dick's art, represented in
the example purchased by the Chantrey
Trustees, would, by reason of its wonderful
clarity, be conspicuous in any company.
Mr. Dick's success is pleasing to his old
fellow-students at the Glasgow School of
Art, who noted with interest u Boyd
Cable's " mention of him as “ the sculptor
in the trenches," where he was once dis-
covered modelling, with clay gathered from
the battlefield, a soldier posing for the
Virgin Mary. Mr. Alex. Proudfoot, Mas-
ter in Modelling at the same school, is
represented by The Bomb-Thrower, instinct
with life and action, and a well-designed
war memorial, with Celtic ornament in-
spired by “ The Book of Kells." But the
most poignant of all the modelled exhibits
is a little figure of Joan of Arc listening to
the Voices, the last work on earth of
Bastien Lepage, who modelled it ten days
before his death, in clay from a brickfield
seen from his bedroom window, in fulfil-
ment of an ardent desire that his final
work should have as subject his beloved
France's deified heroine. 000
In the Painting Section there is super-
abundance of interest. The President and
ex-President of the Royal Scottish Academy
have large-scaled works, Mr. Lawton
Wingate's contribution being a pastoral of
rare poetic quality, while opposite is Sir
James Guthrie's portrait of a distinguished
fellow-artist, Mr. P. W. Adam, R.S.A., in
his studio, a work remarkable for its able
characterization. Mr. E. A. Walton has a
typical canvas, The Willow Pool, which, in
composition, in texture, in tonality, and in
repose, is a veritable masterpiece. Sir
William Orpen, R.A., a regular exhibitor
at Glasgow, is represented by his Royal
Academy picture, Solitude, lent by the
President of the Institute, Mr. J. Howden
Hume, a liberal patron of the arts. In his
charming three-quarter-length portrait of
Lady Weir, Mr. George Henry, A.R.A.,
has surpassed even his own record. 0
In Mr. D. Forrester Wilson's The Wind,
movement and unconventional yet sue-
W. Goscombe John, R.A., and others.
Mr. W. Reid Dick's art, represented in
the example purchased by the Chantrey
Trustees, would, by reason of its wonderful
clarity, be conspicuous in any company.
Mr. Dick's success is pleasing to his old
fellow-students at the Glasgow School of
Art, who noted with interest u Boyd
Cable's " mention of him as “ the sculptor
in the trenches," where he was once dis-
covered modelling, with clay gathered from
the battlefield, a soldier posing for the
Virgin Mary. Mr. Alex. Proudfoot, Mas-
ter in Modelling at the same school, is
represented by The Bomb-Thrower, instinct
with life and action, and a well-designed
war memorial, with Celtic ornament in-
spired by “ The Book of Kells." But the
most poignant of all the modelled exhibits
is a little figure of Joan of Arc listening to
the Voices, the last work on earth of
Bastien Lepage, who modelled it ten days
before his death, in clay from a brickfield
seen from his bedroom window, in fulfil-
ment of an ardent desire that his final
work should have as subject his beloved
France's deified heroine. 000
In the Painting Section there is super-
abundance of interest. The President and
ex-President of the Royal Scottish Academy
have large-scaled works, Mr. Lawton
Wingate's contribution being a pastoral of
rare poetic quality, while opposite is Sir
James Guthrie's portrait of a distinguished
fellow-artist, Mr. P. W. Adam, R.S.A., in
his studio, a work remarkable for its able
characterization. Mr. E. A. Walton has a
typical canvas, The Willow Pool, which, in
composition, in texture, in tonality, and in
repose, is a veritable masterpiece. Sir
William Orpen, R.A., a regular exhibitor
at Glasgow, is represented by his Royal
Academy picture, Solitude, lent by the
President of the Institute, Mr. J. Howden
Hume, a liberal patron of the arts. In his
charming three-quarter-length portrait of
Lady Weir, Mr. George Henry, A.R.A.,
has surpassed even his own record. 0
In Mr. D. Forrester Wilson's The Wind,
movement and unconventional yet sue-