DOI Heft:
No. 326 (May 1920)
DOI Artikel:Taylor, Ernest Archibald: The Edinburgh Group
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0103
THE EDINBURGH GROUP
"OCTOBER SNOW”
BY A. R. STURROCK
which he offtimes daringly personifies.
Yet in his most extreme examples no
affected under-current detracts from the
joyous colour and dexterous refinement
which characterize his work. 0 0
Remarkable dexterity, too, is a quality
personal to the outstanding water-colourist
member, Mr. John R. Barclay—not that
water-colour is the only medium by which
he has already distinguished himself, but
it is the one which seems to me to adapt
itself most readily to his alert nature.
Sketching grounds with their subject
appeal as places or notable localities have
no special attraction for him, as no matter
where he is, it is the small and fleeting
incidents in nature which call him;
and the spirit of which he seldom fails to
attain with but a few delightfully spon-
taneous touches, gaining thereby the truer
spirit of the open-air, which is generally
lost by more laborious methods. In his
figure subjects the same decorative charac-
teristics are invariably to be noted. Young
and no thoughtless idler on the artistic
road, one may surely predict for him no
uncommon future. 0000
To find the same joys that Mr. A. R.
Sturrock interprets, one must seek for
them amongst the wide expanses of open
country; for it is there on the great
plains of moorland with their wind-swept
skies that he finds his happiest inspirations.
Simplicity and a charming colour harmony
are perhaps his principal key-notes. An
artist with a happy outlook, he is in sym-
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"OCTOBER SNOW”
BY A. R. STURROCK
which he offtimes daringly personifies.
Yet in his most extreme examples no
affected under-current detracts from the
joyous colour and dexterous refinement
which characterize his work. 0 0
Remarkable dexterity, too, is a quality
personal to the outstanding water-colourist
member, Mr. John R. Barclay—not that
water-colour is the only medium by which
he has already distinguished himself, but
it is the one which seems to me to adapt
itself most readily to his alert nature.
Sketching grounds with their subject
appeal as places or notable localities have
no special attraction for him, as no matter
where he is, it is the small and fleeting
incidents in nature which call him;
and the spirit of which he seldom fails to
attain with but a few delightfully spon-
taneous touches, gaining thereby the truer
spirit of the open-air, which is generally
lost by more laborious methods. In his
figure subjects the same decorative charac-
teristics are invariably to be noted. Young
and no thoughtless idler on the artistic
road, one may surely predict for him no
uncommon future. 0000
To find the same joys that Mr. A. R.
Sturrock interprets, one must seek for
them amongst the wide expanses of open
country; for it is there on the great
plains of moorland with their wind-swept
skies that he finds his happiest inspirations.
Simplicity and a charming colour harmony
are perhaps his principal key-notes. An
artist with a happy outlook, he is in sym-
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