DOI issue:
No. 368 (November 1923)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21398#0302
LIVERPOOL—MANCHESTER
forms a valuable addition to the important
collection of British water-colour drawings
in the Art Section of the museum. It is
due to the active interest taken in the
museum by the President, Lord Kenyon,
K.V.C.O., who personally collected a sub-
stantial amount to defray the cost of pur-
chase, that it was possible for this interest-
ing and valuable drawing to find a home
in the permanent art collection of the
Principality.
LIVERPOOL.—Mary McCrossan was
born in Liverpool, where she gained
her early training under the late John
Finnie. Later, at Delecluse's Studio in
Paris, she gained a silver medal, “ mention”
and scholarship under Messieurs Callot,
Delance and L’Hermite. Finally, she
studied at St. Ives, under Mr. Julius
Olsson. Miss McCrossan is a decorative
painter of landscape whose instinctive love
of pattern carries her further than many
another pattern devotee, because the love
is instinctive and not the result of mental
282
"THE ROAD TO PERUGIA”
BY MARY MC CROSSAN
determination with a wet towel round the
brain. “ Fontal ” gifts may not be more
truly meritorious than wet-towel brain
struggles, but they matter in art, where
the “ infinite capacity for taking pains ” is
(despite the pronouncements of authority)of
little use without “ gifts.” Miss McCrossan
has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the
Paris Salon, the “ New English,” the
Grosvenor Galleries, the Goupil Galleries
(where her exhibition of 1922 was a mass
of glowing colour), the International
Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers,
the Friday Club and various provincial
galleries. The Sea Piece and The Road to
Perugia, are here shown. Another fine ex-
ample of her work is Pink Chestnuts, now
in the possession of Mrs. Heathcote. 0
J. W. S.
Manchester.—w. s. Gilbert said
(seriously or otherwise) “ There is
beauty in the bellow of the blast,” and
Mr. A. Valette says (seriously and cor-
rectly) “ There is beauty in Manchester.”
forms a valuable addition to the important
collection of British water-colour drawings
in the Art Section of the museum. It is
due to the active interest taken in the
museum by the President, Lord Kenyon,
K.V.C.O., who personally collected a sub-
stantial amount to defray the cost of pur-
chase, that it was possible for this interest-
ing and valuable drawing to find a home
in the permanent art collection of the
Principality.
LIVERPOOL.—Mary McCrossan was
born in Liverpool, where she gained
her early training under the late John
Finnie. Later, at Delecluse's Studio in
Paris, she gained a silver medal, “ mention”
and scholarship under Messieurs Callot,
Delance and L’Hermite. Finally, she
studied at St. Ives, under Mr. Julius
Olsson. Miss McCrossan is a decorative
painter of landscape whose instinctive love
of pattern carries her further than many
another pattern devotee, because the love
is instinctive and not the result of mental
282
"THE ROAD TO PERUGIA”
BY MARY MC CROSSAN
determination with a wet towel round the
brain. “ Fontal ” gifts may not be more
truly meritorious than wet-towel brain
struggles, but they matter in art, where
the “ infinite capacity for taking pains ” is
(despite the pronouncements of authority)of
little use without “ gifts.” Miss McCrossan
has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the
Paris Salon, the “ New English,” the
Grosvenor Galleries, the Goupil Galleries
(where her exhibition of 1922 was a mass
of glowing colour), the International
Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers,
the Friday Club and various provincial
galleries. The Sea Piece and The Road to
Perugia, are here shown. Another fine ex-
ample of her work is Pink Chestnuts, now
in the possession of Mrs. Heathcote. 0
J. W. S.
Manchester.—w. s. Gilbert said
(seriously or otherwise) “ There is
beauty in the bellow of the blast,” and
Mr. A. Valette says (seriously and cor-
rectly) “ There is beauty in Manchester.”