DOI issue:
No. 327 (June 1920)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0155
STUDIO-TALK
colours, as well as an etcher and litho-
grapher of distinction; Sir Robert Lorimer,
architect; and Mr. Henry Poole, sculptor.
The drastic rejections made by the jury
of selection at Burlington House this year
have naturally caused a great deal of dis-
appointment, The number of works sub-
mitted was unusually large—fourteen thou-
sand or thereabouts, it is said—and the
number accepted just over twelve hundred.
One may be pretty certain that in such a
huge number of unaccepted efforts there
must have been a good many that under
the conditions formerly prevailing would
have found a place among the crowd of
exhibits, and it was inevitable that under
the new policy pursued by the Academy
the thinning-out process would cause
chagrin. The truth is, of course, that the
gallery space, like the constitution of the
Academy itself, is not in keeping with the
times. The accommodation at Burlington
House is quite puny compared with the
space allotted to the Salons at the Grand
Palais in Paris. So inadequate is the wall
space, in fact, that those who have charge
of the preparations for bringing the Salons
to London next year have been compelled
to look elsewhere for suitable accommoda-
tion—with little success, however, as there
is really no building in London adapted for
displaying such a large assemblage of works
of art. &1000a
The death of Mr. Briton Riviere, the
distinguished animal painter, who died in
London on April 20 in his eightieth year,
leaves a gap in British art which cannot
easily be filled. For though we have some
good painters of horses and cattle and a
considerable number who with varying
success portray the dog and the cat, there
are exceedingly few who devote their talent
almost exclusively, as did the deceased
Academician, to study of diverse types of
quadrupeds, wild as well as tame. Mr.
Riviere joined the Academy as an Asso-
ciate in 1879, and was made a full member
two years later. At one stage in his career
he did a good deal of work as an illustrator.
Another illustrator of distinction whose
loss will be felt is Mr. Hugh Thomson,
familiar to a very wide circle by a multitude
of graceful drawings illustrating classic
works of fiction, notably those of Mrs.
Gaskell, Jane Austen, and Thackeray, as
"nasturtiums”
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MAY KIMBER, A.R.M.S.
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colours, as well as an etcher and litho-
grapher of distinction; Sir Robert Lorimer,
architect; and Mr. Henry Poole, sculptor.
The drastic rejections made by the jury
of selection at Burlington House this year
have naturally caused a great deal of dis-
appointment, The number of works sub-
mitted was unusually large—fourteen thou-
sand or thereabouts, it is said—and the
number accepted just over twelve hundred.
One may be pretty certain that in such a
huge number of unaccepted efforts there
must have been a good many that under
the conditions formerly prevailing would
have found a place among the crowd of
exhibits, and it was inevitable that under
the new policy pursued by the Academy
the thinning-out process would cause
chagrin. The truth is, of course, that the
gallery space, like the constitution of the
Academy itself, is not in keeping with the
times. The accommodation at Burlington
House is quite puny compared with the
space allotted to the Salons at the Grand
Palais in Paris. So inadequate is the wall
space, in fact, that those who have charge
of the preparations for bringing the Salons
to London next year have been compelled
to look elsewhere for suitable accommoda-
tion—with little success, however, as there
is really no building in London adapted for
displaying such a large assemblage of works
of art. &1000a
The death of Mr. Briton Riviere, the
distinguished animal painter, who died in
London on April 20 in his eightieth year,
leaves a gap in British art which cannot
easily be filled. For though we have some
good painters of horses and cattle and a
considerable number who with varying
success portray the dog and the cat, there
are exceedingly few who devote their talent
almost exclusively, as did the deceased
Academician, to study of diverse types of
quadrupeds, wild as well as tame. Mr.
Riviere joined the Academy as an Asso-
ciate in 1879, and was made a full member
two years later. At one stage in his career
he did a good deal of work as an illustrator.
Another illustrator of distinction whose
loss will be felt is Mr. Hugh Thomson,
familiar to a very wide circle by a multitude
of graceful drawings illustrating classic
works of fiction, notably those of Mrs.
Gaskell, Jane Austen, and Thackeray, as
"nasturtiums”
WATER - COLOUR BY
MAY KIMBER, A.R.M.S.
149