DOI Heft:
No. 371 (February 1924)
DOI Artikel:Millar, Robins: Drawings by four famous etchers: Exhibition in Kelvingrove galleries, Glasgow
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0096
DRAWINGS BY FOUR FAMOUS ETCHERS
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“ WOMAN AND CHILD AT A TABLE ”
CHALK AND CHARCOAL DRAWING
STUDY FOR PICTURE tf SUPPER
TIME/' BY WILLIAM STRANG, R.A.
(By courtesy of Robert Strang, Esq.)
fairy-like pencil strays fluently across paper.
His love for the wild, spacious High-
land glens finds outlet in such a faintly
tinted drawing as Perthshire Hills. He
conveys equally the rugged age of Castle
Urquhart. 0 0 0 0 0
The drawings of Cameron have a
peculiar charm of spontaneity. In them
the suggestion of a purpose beyond the
immediate occasion is less indicated than
in those of other artists. He expresses a
momentary delight in the chances that
inspire an impulse to seek paper and
pencil. 0
Strang's work as exhibited here is
mostly utilitarian in the sense that it
consists largely of studies for more am-
bitious work. Thoughtfulness and gravity
of purpose are only absent when he is
off upon one of his sudden bizarre excur-
sions into the street life of a city wherein
he found quaintness of human eccen-
tricity. That impulsive diablerie was too
characteristic of the man to be omitted
78
from an exhibition. His vein of fantasy,
too, is recorded in a vigorous-tinted
drawing of Witches flying across the sky
on broomsticks. 0000
Into Muirhead Bone’s art the fan-
tastic never intrudes. Indeed, he views
humanity almost inevitably not as indi-
viduals but as a crowd. (One excepts his
fascinating etching of The Dynamiter.)
He sees a city street in its architectural
mass, whose bewildering details he reduces
to a clear focus of vision. And men and
women move as pygmies in a hurrying
scurry of figures—thus, for instance, his
remarkable Gordon Street, Glasgow. 0
One comes from the exhibition with
memories of the Cameron line and colour
notes, like music ; of the thoughtfulness of
Strang; of the insight of Muirhead
Bone’s detail; and of the freshness of
McBey. And one thanks Mr. Brotchie and
his fellow-organisers for an unusual ex-
perience in the round of exhibitions. 0
Robins Millar.
\v. Vf R.A N. <•>
“ WOMAN AND CHILD AT A TABLE ”
CHALK AND CHARCOAL DRAWING
STUDY FOR PICTURE tf SUPPER
TIME/' BY WILLIAM STRANG, R.A.
(By courtesy of Robert Strang, Esq.)
fairy-like pencil strays fluently across paper.
His love for the wild, spacious High-
land glens finds outlet in such a faintly
tinted drawing as Perthshire Hills. He
conveys equally the rugged age of Castle
Urquhart. 0 0 0 0 0
The drawings of Cameron have a
peculiar charm of spontaneity. In them
the suggestion of a purpose beyond the
immediate occasion is less indicated than
in those of other artists. He expresses a
momentary delight in the chances that
inspire an impulse to seek paper and
pencil. 0
Strang's work as exhibited here is
mostly utilitarian in the sense that it
consists largely of studies for more am-
bitious work. Thoughtfulness and gravity
of purpose are only absent when he is
off upon one of his sudden bizarre excur-
sions into the street life of a city wherein
he found quaintness of human eccen-
tricity. That impulsive diablerie was too
characteristic of the man to be omitted
78
from an exhibition. His vein of fantasy,
too, is recorded in a vigorous-tinted
drawing of Witches flying across the sky
on broomsticks. 0000
Into Muirhead Bone’s art the fan-
tastic never intrudes. Indeed, he views
humanity almost inevitably not as indi-
viduals but as a crowd. (One excepts his
fascinating etching of The Dynamiter.)
He sees a city street in its architectural
mass, whose bewildering details he reduces
to a clear focus of vision. And men and
women move as pygmies in a hurrying
scurry of figures—thus, for instance, his
remarkable Gordon Street, Glasgow. 0
One comes from the exhibition with
memories of the Cameron line and colour
notes, like music ; of the thoughtfulness of
Strang; of the insight of Muirhead
Bone’s detail; and of the freshness of
McBey. And one thanks Mr. Brotchie and
his fellow-organisers for an unusual ex-
perience in the round of exhibitions. 0
Robins Millar.