DOI Heft:
No. 329 (August 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-Talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0040
STUDIO-TALK
in modelling, for instance, under the
late Professor Lanteri, and in etching
and engraving under Sir Frank Short,
as well as in other branches of the so-
called " fine " arts, the institution has
gained a very high prestige, and on the
side of the applied arts its success has
been greater than some of the critics
have admitted. There has, however,
grown up the impression that the College
has become too much an institution for
the training of art teachers, and the fact
that a large proportion of the art masters
in schools at home and over-seas hold
the diploma of the College gives weight
to this impression. In Mr. Rothenstein
the College will have a principal who
enjoys a high reputation as a painter
of liberal views, and who recognises the
vital need of a closer co-operation between
art and industry than has existed hitherto,
and no doubt the question of the future
policy of the College as it affects this
important aspect of national life will be
carefully considered by him. a a
In the last two numbers we have given
reproductions of work by the newly
appointed Royal Academicians, Mr.
Richard Jack and Mr. Hughes-Stanton,
respectively, and this month our frontis-
piece is from a painting by another on
whom this distinction has been con-
ferred—Mr. Julius Olsson, one of the
foremost among the marine painters of
the present day. Mr. Olsson's passion
for the sea is not an " acquired " character
as the term is understood among biologists
—it is innate; and the explanation,
no doubt, is that he is descended from
Scandinavian ancestors who were as much
at home on the deep as on dry land. 0
Few, if any, artists of our day have
bestowed so much attention on London
as Mr. William Monk, R.E., whose
water-colour, From Cornhill, which we
reproduce, figured among a collection
of more than sixty drawings of his which
were exhibited at Walker's Galleries,
New Bond Street, a few weeks ago. All
were apparently of fairly recent execution,
and the subjects of many of them were
incidents or events connected in one way
or other with the War, but these on the
whole, though of note as records, were
less interesting than some of the artists'
impressions of places and scenes in and
"butcher's shop and eating-
house, peking." from the
painting by alexandre iacov-
leff. (grafton galleries)
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in modelling, for instance, under the
late Professor Lanteri, and in etching
and engraving under Sir Frank Short,
as well as in other branches of the so-
called " fine " arts, the institution has
gained a very high prestige, and on the
side of the applied arts its success has
been greater than some of the critics
have admitted. There has, however,
grown up the impression that the College
has become too much an institution for
the training of art teachers, and the fact
that a large proportion of the art masters
in schools at home and over-seas hold
the diploma of the College gives weight
to this impression. In Mr. Rothenstein
the College will have a principal who
enjoys a high reputation as a painter
of liberal views, and who recognises the
vital need of a closer co-operation between
art and industry than has existed hitherto,
and no doubt the question of the future
policy of the College as it affects this
important aspect of national life will be
carefully considered by him. a a
In the last two numbers we have given
reproductions of work by the newly
appointed Royal Academicians, Mr.
Richard Jack and Mr. Hughes-Stanton,
respectively, and this month our frontis-
piece is from a painting by another on
whom this distinction has been con-
ferred—Mr. Julius Olsson, one of the
foremost among the marine painters of
the present day. Mr. Olsson's passion
for the sea is not an " acquired " character
as the term is understood among biologists
—it is innate; and the explanation,
no doubt, is that he is descended from
Scandinavian ancestors who were as much
at home on the deep as on dry land. 0
Few, if any, artists of our day have
bestowed so much attention on London
as Mr. William Monk, R.E., whose
water-colour, From Cornhill, which we
reproduce, figured among a collection
of more than sixty drawings of his which
were exhibited at Walker's Galleries,
New Bond Street, a few weeks ago. All
were apparently of fairly recent execution,
and the subjects of many of them were
incidents or events connected in one way
or other with the War, but these on the
whole, though of note as records, were
less interesting than some of the artists'
impressions of places and scenes in and
"butcher's shop and eating-
house, peking." from the
painting by alexandre iacov-
leff. (grafton galleries)
24