DOI Heft:
No. 351 (June 1922)
DOI Artikel:French, Cecil: The later work of F. Cayley Robinson, A.R.A., R.W.S.
DOI Artikel:The Royal Academy Exhibtion, 1922
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21395#0316
THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, 1922
“THE DEATH OF RACHEL”
ILLUSTRATION TO THE
BOOK OF GENESIS BY F.
CAYLEY ROBINSON, A.R.A.
(By courtesy of the Medici
Society, Ltd.)
leaved with u coloured plates/' is a very-
questionable art-form. The relation
between illustration and type—a matter
demanding the utmost tact and knowledge
—is all but set at naught in such publica-
tions, As Burne-Jones put it, in writing
about the great Kelmscott Chaucer, his
share in the production was but as that of
the carver of images in a cathedral. In the
present instance, what we have gained
consists of certain very lovely (certain less
lovely) designs by Cayley Robinson,
admirably reproduced, but no complete
“ spiritual gift/' no abiding monument, 0
At the time of writing, Mr. Cayley
Robinson is fortunately engaged upon yet
another important undertaking. This will
consist of three mural paintings that are to
be placed, as a war memorial, in a school
near Nottingham. It is all too seldom, alas,
in these times, that an artist of power
should have an opportunity for the
unhampered expression on a large scale of
his gifts and experience. All too many are
the occasions for critical grievance ; let us
welcome the more gracious occasion for
simple thanksgiving. 000
THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBI-
TION, 1922. 0000
THE present exhibition of the Academy
can, perhaps, be best described as
solid and respectable. It includes,
certainly, several things which conform
to the less extreme of the modern fashions
—some of them, indeed, are quite sur-
prising performances to find at Burlington
House—but the bulk of the collection is
more or less in accordance with precedent
and departs little from long established
tradition. The real strength of the show
lies in what can not unfairly be called the
second rank work, in the mass of com-
petent, serious productions which have
been brought together : there are very few
achievements which can be counted as
indisputably of the highest order and none
perhaps which can be regarded as marking
an epoch in our art history. 0 0
However, among the oil paintings the
portrait of The Countess of Rocksavage and
her Son, by Mr. Charles Sims, is con-
spicuous as a picture of rare quality,
delightful in its combination of grace
299
“THE DEATH OF RACHEL”
ILLUSTRATION TO THE
BOOK OF GENESIS BY F.
CAYLEY ROBINSON, A.R.A.
(By courtesy of the Medici
Society, Ltd.)
leaved with u coloured plates/' is a very-
questionable art-form. The relation
between illustration and type—a matter
demanding the utmost tact and knowledge
—is all but set at naught in such publica-
tions, As Burne-Jones put it, in writing
about the great Kelmscott Chaucer, his
share in the production was but as that of
the carver of images in a cathedral. In the
present instance, what we have gained
consists of certain very lovely (certain less
lovely) designs by Cayley Robinson,
admirably reproduced, but no complete
“ spiritual gift/' no abiding monument, 0
At the time of writing, Mr. Cayley
Robinson is fortunately engaged upon yet
another important undertaking. This will
consist of three mural paintings that are to
be placed, as a war memorial, in a school
near Nottingham. It is all too seldom, alas,
in these times, that an artist of power
should have an opportunity for the
unhampered expression on a large scale of
his gifts and experience. All too many are
the occasions for critical grievance ; let us
welcome the more gracious occasion for
simple thanksgiving. 000
THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBI-
TION, 1922. 0000
THE present exhibition of the Academy
can, perhaps, be best described as
solid and respectable. It includes,
certainly, several things which conform
to the less extreme of the modern fashions
—some of them, indeed, are quite sur-
prising performances to find at Burlington
House—but the bulk of the collection is
more or less in accordance with precedent
and departs little from long established
tradition. The real strength of the show
lies in what can not unfairly be called the
second rank work, in the mass of com-
petent, serious productions which have
been brought together : there are very few
achievements which can be counted as
indisputably of the highest order and none
perhaps which can be regarded as marking
an epoch in our art history. 0 0
However, among the oil paintings the
portrait of The Countess of Rocksavage and
her Son, by Mr. Charles Sims, is con-
spicuous as a picture of rare quality,
delightful in its combination of grace
299