DOI issue:
No. 326 (May 1920)
DOI article:Taylor, Ernest Archibald: The Edinburgh Group
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0101
THE EDINBURGH GROUP
“youth’s holiday”
BY W.O. HUTCHISON
Technically she has little if anything to
learn to equip herself further in that
direction. Attracted by strong colour
and contrast she favours large canvases to
give delightful expression to her inspira-
tions, most attractive being those out-
door figure compositions of hers, in which
the broad simplicity of sea and rocks
lends itself admirably to her personally
constructive view-point, nor may one
lightly pass over the delicate artistry in
her elusive chalk drawings. The Portrait
of Mrs. Fred Turnbull, reproduced with
this article, though not one of her latest
paintings, intimately suggests one of her
favourite arrangements in portraiture. Many
such commissions have been executed by
her within the last few years, her most
recent ones of children being especially
charming. One may also find her at
stated intervals giving instruction in life-
drawing and painting at the Edinburgh
College of Art, where but a few years ago
she was one of its most talented pupils, a
Another energetic member of the group
is Mr.W. O. Hutchison. With him paint-
ing is a philosophy and a religion, in which
he is constantly finding fresh colour
harmonies intimately connected with all
sides of mental activity and character,
Nature's dramatic moments being those
in which he is most widely interested, and
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“youth’s holiday”
BY W.O. HUTCHISON
Technically she has little if anything to
learn to equip herself further in that
direction. Attracted by strong colour
and contrast she favours large canvases to
give delightful expression to her inspira-
tions, most attractive being those out-
door figure compositions of hers, in which
the broad simplicity of sea and rocks
lends itself admirably to her personally
constructive view-point, nor may one
lightly pass over the delicate artistry in
her elusive chalk drawings. The Portrait
of Mrs. Fred Turnbull, reproduced with
this article, though not one of her latest
paintings, intimately suggests one of her
favourite arrangements in portraiture. Many
such commissions have been executed by
her within the last few years, her most
recent ones of children being especially
charming. One may also find her at
stated intervals giving instruction in life-
drawing and painting at the Edinburgh
College of Art, where but a few years ago
she was one of its most talented pupils, a
Another energetic member of the group
is Mr.W. O. Hutchison. With him paint-
ing is a philosophy and a religion, in which
he is constantly finding fresh colour
harmonies intimately connected with all
sides of mental activity and character,
Nature's dramatic moments being those
in which he is most widely interested, and
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