DOI Heft:
No. 343 (October 1921)
DOI Artikel:Schwabe, Randolph: Some drawings by Henry Rushbury
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0166
SOME DRAWINGS BY HENRY RUSHBURY
'THE RACE COURSE
BY HENRY RUSHBURY
ing of the Belgian refugee camp at Earl's There is the undercurrent of tradition
Court, are now in the Imperial War running through it; but, apart from this,
Museum. They prove that his draughts- the method used in a drawing like The
manship is as competent in figure com- Fish Market comes about directly through
position as in his better-known landscapes, an appreciation of the thing seen—seen
Among the drawings which are before imaginatively, not photographically. The
us, The Fish Market is the most complica- Repair Basin, similar in treatment, is very
ted in technique. The artist's impression successful, as is the elaborate bird's-eye
of his subject has been thoroughly wrestled view of The Careening Basin. For contrast
with, but the struggle has not blunted his there is the light handling of the Quai des
sensibility, and there is a feeling of active Beiges, or The Race Course, with the
creation in the result. The clear evidence skilful management of its animated crowd,
of well directed effort in a work of art is Unloading Oranges shows more clearly
not disagreeable, in spite of the adage than the other examples the influence of
about art concealing art; and it is always Mr. Muirhead Bone. The slight colour
preferable to the facile triumphs of merely of The Swing Bridge is used with complete
manual dexterity. Rushbury's technique propriety in what is really a tinted draw-
is by no means an inelastic convention, ing. Randolph Schwabe.
150
'THE RACE COURSE
BY HENRY RUSHBURY
ing of the Belgian refugee camp at Earl's There is the undercurrent of tradition
Court, are now in the Imperial War running through it; but, apart from this,
Museum. They prove that his draughts- the method used in a drawing like The
manship is as competent in figure com- Fish Market comes about directly through
position as in his better-known landscapes, an appreciation of the thing seen—seen
Among the drawings which are before imaginatively, not photographically. The
us, The Fish Market is the most complica- Repair Basin, similar in treatment, is very
ted in technique. The artist's impression successful, as is the elaborate bird's-eye
of his subject has been thoroughly wrestled view of The Careening Basin. For contrast
with, but the struggle has not blunted his there is the light handling of the Quai des
sensibility, and there is a feeling of active Beiges, or The Race Course, with the
creation in the result. The clear evidence skilful management of its animated crowd,
of well directed effort in a work of art is Unloading Oranges shows more clearly
not disagreeable, in spite of the adage than the other examples the influence of
about art concealing art; and it is always Mr. Muirhead Bone. The slight colour
preferable to the facile triumphs of merely of The Swing Bridge is used with complete
manual dexterity. Rushbury's technique propriety in what is really a tinted draw-
is by no means an inelastic convention, ing. Randolph Schwabe.
150