DOI Heft:
No. 369 (December 19239
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21398#0362
EDINBURGH
"TORRIDON, ROSS-SHIRE.” WATER-
COLOUR BY J. MACLAUCHLAN MILNE
Edinburgh.—To one who has had
the opportunity of following the deve-
lopment of Mr. John Maclauchlan Milne,
the rapid advance he has made with;n the
last few years will be at once evident in his
recent work, especially manifested in his
hill subjects. The accompanying illustra-
tion of his Torridon, Ross-shire, was one of
the most outstanding landscapes shown in
the recent exhibition of the Royal Scottish
Academy. It will also be noticeable from
it that he has certainly come under the
influence of Cezanne, but it would be
difficult to find any amongst the younger
progressive artists who have not been
swayed in their outlook by that now recog-
nised master. It is along the lines of
achieving formal beauty and realising
nature that Mr. Milne has been experi-
menting for a considerable number of
years, and one has only to compare his
work of to-day with his early Fifeshire,.
342
gaining that freedom and following it up
in the Glasgow School of Art, at Munich
and at Paris, being known as an exhibitor
in the Paris Salons long before having
shown any of his maturer work in his
native City of Glasgow, where it is now
highly appreciated. The corporation of
that city has recently purchased his attrac-
tive water-colour of Stirling Bridge from
the present exhibition of the Royal Glasgow
Institute of the Fine Arts (of which a notice
appeared in cur November issue). An en-
thusiast in various mediums and a hard-
working member of the Royal Scottish
Society of Painters in Water-Colours, it is
perhaps as a water-colour artist he is most
widely known, notably as a lover of street
scenes and old buildings, whose inherent
spirit, with his conscientious power of design
and intimacy with his medium, he rarely
omits to capture and imbue with his own
searching sincerity. E. A. T.
"TORRIDON, ROSS-SHIRE.” WATER-
COLOUR BY J. MACLAUCHLAN MILNE
Edinburgh.—To one who has had
the opportunity of following the deve-
lopment of Mr. John Maclauchlan Milne,
the rapid advance he has made with;n the
last few years will be at once evident in his
recent work, especially manifested in his
hill subjects. The accompanying illustra-
tion of his Torridon, Ross-shire, was one of
the most outstanding landscapes shown in
the recent exhibition of the Royal Scottish
Academy. It will also be noticeable from
it that he has certainly come under the
influence of Cezanne, but it would be
difficult to find any amongst the younger
progressive artists who have not been
swayed in their outlook by that now recog-
nised master. It is along the lines of
achieving formal beauty and realising
nature that Mr. Milne has been experi-
menting for a considerable number of
years, and one has only to compare his
work of to-day with his early Fifeshire,.
342
gaining that freedom and following it up
in the Glasgow School of Art, at Munich
and at Paris, being known as an exhibitor
in the Paris Salons long before having
shown any of his maturer work in his
native City of Glasgow, where it is now
highly appreciated. The corporation of
that city has recently purchased his attrac-
tive water-colour of Stirling Bridge from
the present exhibition of the Royal Glasgow
Institute of the Fine Arts (of which a notice
appeared in cur November issue). An en-
thusiast in various mediums and a hard-
working member of the Royal Scottish
Society of Painters in Water-Colours, it is
perhaps as a water-colour artist he is most
widely known, notably as a lover of street
scenes and old buildings, whose inherent
spirit, with his conscientious power of design
and intimacy with his medium, he rarely
omits to capture and imbue with his own
searching sincerity. E. A. T.