Studio: international art (83.1922)

THE CRAWHALLS OF MR. W. BURRELL’S COLLECTION

“ GREYHOUND.” WATER-
COLOUR BY JOSEPH CRAWHALL

showed signs of waning powers—contains
nothing more beautiful and virile. 0

His methods of work may be placed,
roughly, in three categories, though like
nearly all such estimates, there is con-
siderable overlapping of one method into
another. First, the pure water-colour
drawings on white paper, which may be
said to cover the first ten or twelve years,
and include all the work done in Tangiers.
Examples of this in the Burrell group are
the brilliant Aviary aforesaid, the little
pictures called The Goatherd and The
White Horse, the amazing broadly im-

pressionistic Camels, the marvellously
subtle Bullfight, and the splendidly con-
structed Greyhound. Second, the pastels,
which occupy a period of three or four
years of his mid-career, and of which the
Hen and Chickens and The Goat are ex-
amples. And, finally, the paintings in
gouache on cambric, the almost invariable
method of the artist’s last fourteen or
fifteen years, of which Mr. Burrell pos-
sesses nine important examples, including
such masterpieces as The Black Cock,
Barnet Fair, The Rook's Nest, The Pigeon,
and The Chinese Goose. 000

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