DOI issue:
No. 340 (July 1921)
DOI article:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Captain J. Audley Harvey's collection, [1]
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0026
CAPTAIN J. AUDLEY HARVEY'S COLLECTION
" 1726." BY WIL-
LIAM STRANG, R.A.
directness of statement, and consummate appropriate fantasy it hints at the pic-
skill in the realisation of atmosphere, tone, turesqueness of life in countries where the
and colour. It is the work of a master and people are much the same now as they were
one on which a master's reputation could in classic times and where the classic spirit
be securely based. Very well chosen, too, still persists. Swan might have seen his
as an example of Mr. Clausen's art is the goatherd as he has painted him at almost
Ploughing, one of those pastoral subjects any moment during many centuries, and his
which he paints with such thorough under- picture would have been true to that
standing of the genius of country life ; and moment. The other works which have to
altogether typical in its delightful originality be noted in this first selection from Captain
and its serious, considered restraint is Harvey's possessions are by Mr. Bundy,
The Goatherd, by J. M. Swan, a pastoral of Mr. Oliver Hall, and William Strang. All
another kind and of another period. Yet three are absolutely characteristic of the
both pictures are right in their rustic artists responsible for them, and have been
atmosphere—Mr. Clausen's because it chosen with the same care to secure repre-
gives a dignified suggestion of the facts sentative examples which has kept the collec-
of to-day, Swan's because with a touch of tion throughout at its unusually high level.
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" 1726." BY WIL-
LIAM STRANG, R.A.
directness of statement, and consummate appropriate fantasy it hints at the pic-
skill in the realisation of atmosphere, tone, turesqueness of life in countries where the
and colour. It is the work of a master and people are much the same now as they were
one on which a master's reputation could in classic times and where the classic spirit
be securely based. Very well chosen, too, still persists. Swan might have seen his
as an example of Mr. Clausen's art is the goatherd as he has painted him at almost
Ploughing, one of those pastoral subjects any moment during many centuries, and his
which he paints with such thorough under- picture would have been true to that
standing of the genius of country life ; and moment. The other works which have to
altogether typical in its delightful originality be noted in this first selection from Captain
and its serious, considered restraint is Harvey's possessions are by Mr. Bundy,
The Goatherd, by J. M. Swan, a pastoral of Mr. Oliver Hall, and William Strang. All
another kind and of another period. Yet three are absolutely characteristic of the
both pictures are right in their rustic artists responsible for them, and have been
atmosphere—Mr. Clausen's because it chosen with the same care to secure repre-
gives a dignified suggestion of the facts sentative examples which has kept the collec-
of to-day, Swan's because with a touch of tion throughout at its unusually high level.
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