DOI Heft:
No. 329 (August 1920)
DOI Artikel:Taylor, Ernest Archibald: The Royal Scottish Academy
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0036
THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY
" THE PAINTING STUDENT "
BY D. M. SUTHERLAND
Barclay's Mrs. J. Duncan Cran is in adjudicators have certainly been justified,
point of composition as well as technically for as a successful achievement in colour
one of the best things he has shown for and design it is one of the outstanding
some years. In a lighter scheme The pictures in the exhibition. Between the
Painting Student, by Mr. David M. sincere artist and the attainment of his
Sutherland takes an honoured position, individual vision lies no easy road; to
Mr. Sutherland is, with Miss Kate steer his way amid the babel of siren calls
Campbell Muirhead, a sculptor, the first from the past requires something more
recipient of the Guthrie Award—a money than merely wilful eccentricity, and it
prize representing the interest on a sum is the confident sincerity observable in
recently presented to the Royal Scottish the work of the younger artists in the
Academy for the purpose of rewarding exhibition that claims attention. It
each year the young artists whose may not appeal to those whose tastes
work is considered to show the most are fixed and settled by tradition, but
promise. In awarding it for the first time even they cannot fail to appreciate the
to Mr. Sutherland's Painting Student the genuine sincerity which is there manifest.
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" THE PAINTING STUDENT "
BY D. M. SUTHERLAND
Barclay's Mrs. J. Duncan Cran is in adjudicators have certainly been justified,
point of composition as well as technically for as a successful achievement in colour
one of the best things he has shown for and design it is one of the outstanding
some years. In a lighter scheme The pictures in the exhibition. Between the
Painting Student, by Mr. David M. sincere artist and the attainment of his
Sutherland takes an honoured position, individual vision lies no easy road; to
Mr. Sutherland is, with Miss Kate steer his way amid the babel of siren calls
Campbell Muirhead, a sculptor, the first from the past requires something more
recipient of the Guthrie Award—a money than merely wilful eccentricity, and it
prize representing the interest on a sum is the confident sincerity observable in
recently presented to the Royal Scottish the work of the younger artists in the
Academy for the purpose of rewarding exhibition that claims attention. It
each year the young artists whose may not appeal to those whose tastes
work is considered to show the most are fixed and settled by tradition, but
promise. In awarding it for the first time even they cannot fail to appreciate the
to Mr. Sutherland's Painting Student the genuine sincerity which is there manifest.
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