DOI issue:
No. 340 (July 1921)
DOI article:Eddington, A.: The paintings and lithographs of Stanley Cursiter
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0040
PAINTINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS OF STANLEY CURSITER
'RAIN." FROM AN
ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH
BY STANLEY CURSITER
abounding for curtailment by academic duced on canvas. The effect of the lamp-
schemes of expression. 000 light on the figures and its contrast
Mr. Cursiter is not only a landscape with the outside night is realistic without
artist. He has done much excellent figure suggestion of the theatrical. It is this
work. His studies of the nude are fundamental quality of truth to nature,
characterised by fine draughtsmanship, combined with a discriminating sense of
His colour sense is acute, and there is a the beauty of line, a capacity to produce
gracefulness of pose and refinement of the effect of light on colour as it plays
treatment that satisfies the aesthetic sense, on a variety of objects of different texture,
The Dolce far niente group, which is the and an efficient technique, that makes Mr.
only one of the series of illustrations that Cursiter's work so successful and so full
has been exhibited, was seen at the last of promise for the future. 000
show of the Scottish Artists' Society, and A. Eddington.
has since been acquired by the Paisley [Mr. Cursiter's water-colour, A Mediter-
Art Gallery. Thoroughly expressive of ranean Port, belongs to Mr. Robert Duncan,
the title, the arrangement was actually M.I.N.A., who has been good enough to
built up in all its details and then repro- lend it for reproduction.—Editor ]
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'RAIN." FROM AN
ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH
BY STANLEY CURSITER
abounding for curtailment by academic duced on canvas. The effect of the lamp-
schemes of expression. 000 light on the figures and its contrast
Mr. Cursiter is not only a landscape with the outside night is realistic without
artist. He has done much excellent figure suggestion of the theatrical. It is this
work. His studies of the nude are fundamental quality of truth to nature,
characterised by fine draughtsmanship, combined with a discriminating sense of
His colour sense is acute, and there is a the beauty of line, a capacity to produce
gracefulness of pose and refinement of the effect of light on colour as it plays
treatment that satisfies the aesthetic sense, on a variety of objects of different texture,
The Dolce far niente group, which is the and an efficient technique, that makes Mr.
only one of the series of illustrations that Cursiter's work so successful and so full
has been exhibited, was seen at the last of promise for the future. 000
show of the Scottish Artists' Society, and A. Eddington.
has since been acquired by the Paisley [Mr. Cursiter's water-colour, A Mediter-
Art Gallery. Thoroughly expressive of ranean Port, belongs to Mr. Robert Duncan,
the title, the arrangement was actually M.I.N.A., who has been good enough to
built up in all its details and then repro- lend it for reproduction.—Editor ]
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