DOI Heft:
No. 345 (December 1921)
DOI Artikel:Manson, James Bolivar: The Aberdeen Art Gallery
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0264
THE ABERDEEN ART GALLERY
spectus of the art of sculpture throughout and enters, free of charge, into the peace of
the ages, from the ancient Egyptian and this temple of beauty. 000
Abyssinian times through the magnificence We are, however, concerned at this
of Grecian art and the splendour of the moment particularly with the more recent
Italian Renaissance, the early French, acquisitions, for by these and by future
English and German periods, right up to purchases will the standard of the gallery
Mestrovic. 0 0 0 a 0 be maintained at its high level or allowed to
The gallery itself in which this collection sink below it. 0 0 0 0 0
is housed is one of the most cheerful in the The acquisitions made during recent
country. The central hall, pleasant in pro- years are consistently good, in striking con-
portions, with its marble pavement, forms trast with the practice adopted in many
a veritable salle grecque—simple, reposeful, other places, and a number of pictures have
worthy—which one cannot regard without been added to the collection which any
some feeling of reverence. It is surrounded gallery might be proud to possess. 0
by balconies supported on arches with One of the best of these is The Horseshoe
slender columns. In each archway is a Bend of the Severn, painted by Mr. Wilson
masterpiece of Grecian sculpture seen Steer in 1907, and purchased in 1919. This
against a background of terra-cotta red, and is an extensive landscape, a stretch of fair
on the balcony facing the entrance stands English country bathed in afternoon sun-
the Victory of Paeonius. One leaves light. The unity of effect is completely
behind the tiresome affairs of modern life realised ; the sky, with its infinitely subtle
"l'incendie." by
alphonse legros
248
spectus of the art of sculpture throughout and enters, free of charge, into the peace of
the ages, from the ancient Egyptian and this temple of beauty. 000
Abyssinian times through the magnificence We are, however, concerned at this
of Grecian art and the splendour of the moment particularly with the more recent
Italian Renaissance, the early French, acquisitions, for by these and by future
English and German periods, right up to purchases will the standard of the gallery
Mestrovic. 0 0 0 a 0 be maintained at its high level or allowed to
The gallery itself in which this collection sink below it. 0 0 0 0 0
is housed is one of the most cheerful in the The acquisitions made during recent
country. The central hall, pleasant in pro- years are consistently good, in striking con-
portions, with its marble pavement, forms trast with the practice adopted in many
a veritable salle grecque—simple, reposeful, other places, and a number of pictures have
worthy—which one cannot regard without been added to the collection which any
some feeling of reverence. It is surrounded gallery might be proud to possess. 0
by balconies supported on arches with One of the best of these is The Horseshoe
slender columns. In each archway is a Bend of the Severn, painted by Mr. Wilson
masterpiece of Grecian sculpture seen Steer in 1907, and purchased in 1919. This
against a background of terra-cotta red, and is an extensive landscape, a stretch of fair
on the balcony facing the entrance stands English country bathed in afternoon sun-
the Victory of Paeonius. One leaves light. The unity of effect is completely
behind the tiresome affairs of modern life realised ; the sky, with its infinitely subtle
"l'incendie." by
alphonse legros
248