DOI Heft:
No. 336 (March 1921)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21392#0140
STUDIO-TALK
as a pendant to St. George and the Dragon
by Sir Edgar Boehm, R.A., the two being
emblematic of male and female chivalry.
The Director has also under his charge
the Art Museum, contained in two large
galleries, one of which is filled with the
Cornell Collection, a fine gift of English
and French eighteenth-century furniture,
arms, silver, Sheffield plate, glass, draw-
ings and engravings. In addition he
''THE PICTURE IN
THE MIRROR." BY
L. BERNARD HALL
124
superintends the Art Schools ; they are
held both during the day and evening, and
are attended on an average by one
hundred students—men and women. The
work is devoted entirely to figure drawing
and painting, and he personally conducts
the painting class. In spite of his
multifarious duties, Mr. Hall pursues
his painting on Saturdays and during
his holidays. Most of his portraits,
usually life-size, are executed at one sitting,
—he styles them his " Saturday furies,"
his method being " hit or miss." His
other paintings such as Sleep, for which
he was awarded a silver medal at the
Panama Exhibition, suffer, he says, from
being executed a day at a time. 0 0
In 1910 a one man's show of Mr. Hall's
work was held at the Athenaeum, Mel-
bourne, at which seventy of his paintings
were exhibited ; they comprised portraits,
views of interiors, still-life and landscape,
and demonstrated his versatility as a
painter. His picture The Model hangs
in the Sydney Art Gallery, and After
Dinner, a still-life group, has been ac-
quired by the Adelaide Gallery. 0 r
Besides executing excellent portraits
Mr. Hall excels in painting studies from
the nude. In speaking of a recent ex-
hibition of his works held at Sydney, it
was said " he is undoubtedly our finest
draughtsman of the figure ; and his art,
founded on the probity of drawing, is
individual in feeling, in colour and in
decorative value." In the latest issue of
Art in Australia, published at Sydney,
it is stated : " In the employment of pure
colour Hall is some years ahead of a
movement which is agitating European
studios of to-day. His art is intellectual
rather than emotional, and he stands alone
in Australia in his ability to handle paint
with distinction and beauty of surface."
It is evident that Mr. Hall's work is greatly
appreciated " down under," and it deserves
to be better known in the Old Country. 0
The many valuable additions which
have been made to the Melbourne
National Gallery on Mr. Hall's personal
recommendation, not only indicate his
knowledge of what is really of first-rate
importance, but also show his catholicity
of taste, the most essential attribute of
a Director of an Art Gallery. H. M. C.
as a pendant to St. George and the Dragon
by Sir Edgar Boehm, R.A., the two being
emblematic of male and female chivalry.
The Director has also under his charge
the Art Museum, contained in two large
galleries, one of which is filled with the
Cornell Collection, a fine gift of English
and French eighteenth-century furniture,
arms, silver, Sheffield plate, glass, draw-
ings and engravings. In addition he
''THE PICTURE IN
THE MIRROR." BY
L. BERNARD HALL
124
superintends the Art Schools ; they are
held both during the day and evening, and
are attended on an average by one
hundred students—men and women. The
work is devoted entirely to figure drawing
and painting, and he personally conducts
the painting class. In spite of his
multifarious duties, Mr. Hall pursues
his painting on Saturdays and during
his holidays. Most of his portraits,
usually life-size, are executed at one sitting,
—he styles them his " Saturday furies,"
his method being " hit or miss." His
other paintings such as Sleep, for which
he was awarded a silver medal at the
Panama Exhibition, suffer, he says, from
being executed a day at a time. 0 0
In 1910 a one man's show of Mr. Hall's
work was held at the Athenaeum, Mel-
bourne, at which seventy of his paintings
were exhibited ; they comprised portraits,
views of interiors, still-life and landscape,
and demonstrated his versatility as a
painter. His picture The Model hangs
in the Sydney Art Gallery, and After
Dinner, a still-life group, has been ac-
quired by the Adelaide Gallery. 0 r
Besides executing excellent portraits
Mr. Hall excels in painting studies from
the nude. In speaking of a recent ex-
hibition of his works held at Sydney, it
was said " he is undoubtedly our finest
draughtsman of the figure ; and his art,
founded on the probity of drawing, is
individual in feeling, in colour and in
decorative value." In the latest issue of
Art in Australia, published at Sydney,
it is stated : " In the employment of pure
colour Hall is some years ahead of a
movement which is agitating European
studios of to-day. His art is intellectual
rather than emotional, and he stands alone
in Australia in his ability to handle paint
with distinction and beauty of surface."
It is evident that Mr. Hall's work is greatly
appreciated " down under," and it deserves
to be better known in the Old Country. 0
The many valuable additions which
have been made to the Melbourne
National Gallery on Mr. Hall's personal
recommendation, not only indicate his
knowledge of what is really of first-rate
importance, but also show his catholicity
of taste, the most essential attribute of
a Director of an Art Gallery. H. M. C.