Studio: international art (82.1921)

THE ABERDEEN ART GALLERY

"A FACTORY IN NORWAY "
BY FRITZ THAULOW

Morris. A son of Mr. William Graham sat
for the page with the lute, 000
An important example of Mr. William
Nicholson's subtle art is The Brown Crow.
The beauty of this picture lies in the
exquisite relationship of the tones of
restrained colour, particularly in the fore-
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Mr. Arnesby Brown is well represented
by an unusually strong painting in his
Norfolk Landscape of cattle under a fine
effect of cloud and sunshine. There are a
number of fine examples of Sir W. Q.
Orchardson's work, of which the well-
known Manage de convenance-after
(painted in 1886), is the best; John
Pettie's Musician's Reverie is possibly his
finest picture. John Phillip, an Aberdeen
man, is fittingly seen to fine advantage,
particularly in his handsome Gipsy Queen
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There are some very remarkable por-
traits in the gallery, of which the most
striking is Mr. Augustus John's David
Lloyd George, painted in 1916. This is a
powerful study of character expressed with
Mr. John's captivating dexterity. It is
slightly malicious in intention, but its
abundant vitality quite destroys the dull
and conventional portrait by Mr. Fiddes
Watt hanging near by. Sir William
Orpen's Viscount Bryce is extremely bright
and interesting. It shows the best that can
be done by Sir William's rather artificial
but effective method, but in the case of his
portrait of Sir Thomas Jaffrey (1920), this
has been much less successful. Sir
Thomas's genial and attractive personality
has eluded a method which, though bril-
liantly clever, is a little too superficial.
There is a large interior with a portrait of
Lady Robertson, by Orchardson, in which,