Studio: international art (86.1923)

MR. REGINALD FRAMPTON'S LANDSCAPES

“ THUNDERBARROW HILL, NEAR
BRAMBER.” OIL PAINTING BY
E. REGINALD FRAHPIOR

symbol, or an allegory, or aid in the inter-
pretation of many of the incidents of
Biblical history, which are common ground
for the painters of the decorative school.
Landscape is before your eyes ; you are
dealing with the facts of nature ; the detail
is infinite, the colour various. How many
gradations of atmosphere are there be-
tween you and a haystack at a given dis-
tance i Landscape painters have often tried
to put on canvas as much as possible of
their seeing of these limitless varieties of
effect, with the result that you cannot always
see the wood for the trees. Mr. D. Y.
Cameron is an exception ; he gives you
more in a landscape because he tries to
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express less. And, of course, there are
a few others, a a a a a

Now Mr. Reginald Frampton has broken
loose. He has taken to painting landscapes.
Hitherto he has expressed with poetically
decorative feeling incidents in the lives of
the fair saints of martyrology, or legend, or
he has been plainly symbolic as in his
Navigation. In some of these pictures:
there have been vistas of distant landscape,,
such as we find in the early Italian paint*
ings ; and I remember a few years ago
seeing some charming studies of Alpine
scenery from his hand. a a a
In the present number of The Studio
are reproduced some examples of his more