DOI issue:
No. 321 (December 1919)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21359#0126
STUDIO-TALK
“BY THE WATER.” BY
GEORGE PIRIE, A.R.S.A.
cessful harmonization are the most striking
characteristics of a remarkable picture. Mr.
Charles Mackie's The Model of Hebe shows a
nude figure in a studio with light filtering
through a diaphanous curtain, the artist's
properties all around. It is a familiar
subject to the artist, but he invests it with
originality and charm. 000
Familiar, too, is Mr. James Paterson,
R.S.A., with old Edinburgh ; he studies
it daily from his studio window, and loves
to paint its quaint irregular architecture,
impregnated with romantic associations.
The Dean, Edinburgh, is a happy effort.
Mr. George Pirie, A.R.S.A., with war
work over, has again returned to his mono-
chromatic studies of fowls and other
living things. In By the Water he makes
a departure by introducing successfully
a foliage background. In another room
close by there hang three striking examples
of the art of Mr. S. J. Peploe, A.R.S.A.
Peploe is an individualist, yet the hanging
committee contrived to collect a group of
other pictures which, with the Peploes,
120
form a colour combination surely never
exceeded in daring, apart from a Post-
Impressionist Exhibition. 000
Amongst other notable pictures in the
exhibition are Mr. Gemmell Hutchison’s
A Lost Ball, a seaside golfing idyll of rare
aesthetic charm; The Circling Year, by
Mr. Henry Lintott, A.R.S.A., a large oil
with all the sensitivity of pastel; seascapes
by Mr. R. W. Allan, R.W.S., Mr. Camp-
bell Mitchell, R.S.A., and Mr. Hugh
Munro ; The Melody of Silence, by Mr.
Macaulay Stevenson, characteristically
subtle ; flower studies by Mr. Stuart Park
and Mr. F. C. B, Cadell; The Orchard
Burn, by Mr. W. S. MacGeorge ; interest-
ing still-life sketches by Mr. W. Somerville
Shanks ; The Penguin's Parliament, which
could only come from the brush of Mr.
William Walls, R.S.A.; and Greenan
Castle, an Ayrshire relic of Bruce's time,
by Mr. George Houston, A.R.S.A. 0
In the Water-Colour Section, two unsur-
passable works by the late Arthur Melville
are conspicuous; Mr. A. K. Brown,
“BY THE WATER.” BY
GEORGE PIRIE, A.R.S.A.
cessful harmonization are the most striking
characteristics of a remarkable picture. Mr.
Charles Mackie's The Model of Hebe shows a
nude figure in a studio with light filtering
through a diaphanous curtain, the artist's
properties all around. It is a familiar
subject to the artist, but he invests it with
originality and charm. 000
Familiar, too, is Mr. James Paterson,
R.S.A., with old Edinburgh ; he studies
it daily from his studio window, and loves
to paint its quaint irregular architecture,
impregnated with romantic associations.
The Dean, Edinburgh, is a happy effort.
Mr. George Pirie, A.R.S.A., with war
work over, has again returned to his mono-
chromatic studies of fowls and other
living things. In By the Water he makes
a departure by introducing successfully
a foliage background. In another room
close by there hang three striking examples
of the art of Mr. S. J. Peploe, A.R.S.A.
Peploe is an individualist, yet the hanging
committee contrived to collect a group of
other pictures which, with the Peploes,
120
form a colour combination surely never
exceeded in daring, apart from a Post-
Impressionist Exhibition. 000
Amongst other notable pictures in the
exhibition are Mr. Gemmell Hutchison’s
A Lost Ball, a seaside golfing idyll of rare
aesthetic charm; The Circling Year, by
Mr. Henry Lintott, A.R.S.A., a large oil
with all the sensitivity of pastel; seascapes
by Mr. R. W. Allan, R.W.S., Mr. Camp-
bell Mitchell, R.S.A., and Mr. Hugh
Munro ; The Melody of Silence, by Mr.
Macaulay Stevenson, characteristically
subtle ; flower studies by Mr. Stuart Park
and Mr. F. C. B, Cadell; The Orchard
Burn, by Mr. W. S. MacGeorge ; interest-
ing still-life sketches by Mr. W. Somerville
Shanks ; The Penguin's Parliament, which
could only come from the brush of Mr.
William Walls, R.S.A.; and Greenan
Castle, an Ayrshire relic of Bruce's time,
by Mr. George Houston, A.R.S.A. 0
In the Water-Colour Section, two unsur-
passable works by the late Arthur Melville
are conspicuous; Mr. A. K. Brown,