DOI Heft:
No. 342 (September 1921)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Captain J. Audley Harvey's collection, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0107
CAPTAIN J. AUDLEY HARVEY'S COLLECTION
"THE STUDIO." BY
B, DE LA BESE
Domingo, in its violence of action, its Captain Harvey's collecting has enabled
glare of sunlight, and its southern anima- him to summarise many of the most
tion, a startling contrast to the restfulness striking characteristics of the art of our
of the Dutch landscape, has a summary time, its strength, its variety and breadth
decisiveness of manner which is perfectly of outlook, its love of experiment, and
in keeping with its subject. The other its independence of effort. This is plainly
picture, too, which is illustrated, The seen in the pictures illustrated, but it is
Studio, by Mr. B. de la Bere, is work of not less evident in those which have not
still another kind, clever, fantastic, ir- been reproduced ; in the remainder of a
responsible almost, and yet attractively gathering which includes such artists as
out of the beaten track, and therefore M. Lhermitte and Mr. Campbell Taylor,
rightly placed in a collection which is Fortuny, Cazin, Mr. Frank Mura and Sir
itself free from conventional restrictions. William Orpen, besides many others who
Indeed, as has been said in the previous have indisputable positions in modern
article, the comprehensive incoherence of art history, A. L. Baldry.
9i
"THE STUDIO." BY
B, DE LA BESE
Domingo, in its violence of action, its Captain Harvey's collecting has enabled
glare of sunlight, and its southern anima- him to summarise many of the most
tion, a startling contrast to the restfulness striking characteristics of the art of our
of the Dutch landscape, has a summary time, its strength, its variety and breadth
decisiveness of manner which is perfectly of outlook, its love of experiment, and
in keeping with its subject. The other its independence of effort. This is plainly
picture, too, which is illustrated, The seen in the pictures illustrated, but it is
Studio, by Mr. B. de la Bere, is work of not less evident in those which have not
still another kind, clever, fantastic, ir- been reproduced ; in the remainder of a
responsible almost, and yet attractively gathering which includes such artists as
out of the beaten track, and therefore M. Lhermitte and Mr. Campbell Taylor,
rightly placed in a collection which is Fortuny, Cazin, Mr. Frank Mura and Sir
itself free from conventional restrictions. William Orpen, besides many others who
Indeed, as has been said in the previous have indisputable positions in modern
article, the comprehensive incoherence of art history, A. L. Baldry.
9i