DOI Heft:
No. 344 (November 1912)
DOI Artikel:Galerien, Theodore: The renaissance of the Tate Gallery
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0213
THE RENAISSANCE OF THE TATE GALLERY
IRISH TROOPS SURPRISED BY A BOMBARDMENT
IN THE JUTWEAN HILLS." BY HENRY LAMB
(By permission of the Imperial War Museum
Trustees, Crown Copyright)
Sitwell, seem by contrast very reserved and
reticent; qualities desirable in a picture to
be lived with but not effective in a general
exhibition. It would be interesting to
observe how Mr. Kennington's painting
matures on such an unabsorbent ground.
One would imagine that in time it would
cease to adhere to the glass. It is a remark-
ably competent piece of work, but curiously
lacking in emotion. 0000
The six panels by Augustus John, lent by
Sir James Murray, represent Mr. John at
his best in a certain phase of his art. They
show his power of rapid selection of
absolute essentials. They are emphatic
statements set down with all his masterly
skill. The Woman in the Sealskin Coat is a
rich and satisfying harmony of colour, in
which the touch of pale blue is a false note.
The most complete of these little pictures
is the beautiful Blue Pond. 000
It would take much more space than is
available to consider adequately this re-
markable collection, and one would like to
describe in detail the new scheme of
decoration which makes the Tate, in spite
of some dreadful architectural features, one
of the most attractive Galleries in Europe.
There are, here as elsewhere, far too many
pictures on view. The visitor is tempted
to " do " the Gallery at one visit, and as
that means seeing several hundred pictures,
one may imagine the state of mind of the
visitor at the end of the process. 0 0
It is a difficult problem for a Director
who has more pictures than room to show
them, but if fewer were shown at a time,
both pictures and public would benefit. 0
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IRISH TROOPS SURPRISED BY A BOMBARDMENT
IN THE JUTWEAN HILLS." BY HENRY LAMB
(By permission of the Imperial War Museum
Trustees, Crown Copyright)
Sitwell, seem by contrast very reserved and
reticent; qualities desirable in a picture to
be lived with but not effective in a general
exhibition. It would be interesting to
observe how Mr. Kennington's painting
matures on such an unabsorbent ground.
One would imagine that in time it would
cease to adhere to the glass. It is a remark-
ably competent piece of work, but curiously
lacking in emotion. 0000
The six panels by Augustus John, lent by
Sir James Murray, represent Mr. John at
his best in a certain phase of his art. They
show his power of rapid selection of
absolute essentials. They are emphatic
statements set down with all his masterly
skill. The Woman in the Sealskin Coat is a
rich and satisfying harmony of colour, in
which the touch of pale blue is a false note.
The most complete of these little pictures
is the beautiful Blue Pond. 000
It would take much more space than is
available to consider adequately this re-
markable collection, and one would like to
describe in detail the new scheme of
decoration which makes the Tate, in spite
of some dreadful architectural features, one
of the most attractive Galleries in Europe.
There are, here as elsewhere, far too many
pictures on view. The visitor is tempted
to " do " the Gallery at one visit, and as
that means seeing several hundred pictures,
one may imagine the state of mind of the
visitor at the end of the process. 0 0
It is a difficult problem for a Director
who has more pictures than room to show
them, but if fewer were shown at a time,
both pictures and public would benefit. 0
197