DOI issue:
No. 372 (March 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0174
NOTTINGHAM—SHEFFIELD
NOTTINGHAM.—A truly character-
istic statuette is describable as a frozen
lyric. Intense expression and a method
suited to the necessary smallness of the
work are indispensable : and if any niggling
workmanship is, at the same time, avoided,
there is probably no lovelier form of art,
and certainly no more perfect treasure for
“VIRGINITY.” BY
CHARLES WILLS
the modern home, where little room is
found for larger sculpture. The statuettes
of Mr. Charles Wills, of Nottingham are
rare examples of a power to fulfil statuette
requirements. They are nothing if not
expressive, and they suggest that the artist
did not in a pleasantly concoctive manner
choose his theme, but that his theme chose
him—with irresistible force and inspira-
tion, and that the subsequent proceedings
were under thematic domination. To this
their success is attributable. 0 a
SHEFFIELD. — Mr. Stanley Royle,
R.B.A. has recently accomplished the
difficult task of setting down on four
canvases all that an artist might convey of
a great modern industrial city—the city
of Sheffield. That the result of Mr.
Royle's work is successful is not surprising,
for the artist's ability as a painter has come
to the assistance of his very full knowledge
of the city whose features he has known
so well from boyhood days. 0 0
Travellers through Sheffield by either
of its railway arteries usually carry away
vivid impressions of grime and of industry
run riot in an all but smoke-obscured
valley. The impression of Sheffield thus
gained is a libel, and Mr. Royle's pictures
say that it is. And they speak the truth.
Mr. Royle, knowing the ground, has given
us winding streets and hilly backgrounds ;
the jerky silhouettes of architectural
features both great and small, silhouettes
which, apart from the chimneys, belong
more appropriately to a terraced town on
the Riviera front than to a modern hive of
industry. 00000
In the one purely landscape picture of
the four, Sheffield from Mayfield Valley,
a view of the western residential area, Mr.
Royle may be said to have added many
laurels to his growing reputation as a
landscape painter. 0000
The four works have been reproduced
by a process which has done very full
justice to the artist's work, and their
publication is interesting alike toboth public
and artists. The complete portrayal of
a whole city by an accomplished present-
day artist is an enterprise worthy of
emulation by any city whose civic sense
would desire the handing down in full of
its contemporary history. B. J. C.
156
NOTTINGHAM.—A truly character-
istic statuette is describable as a frozen
lyric. Intense expression and a method
suited to the necessary smallness of the
work are indispensable : and if any niggling
workmanship is, at the same time, avoided,
there is probably no lovelier form of art,
and certainly no more perfect treasure for
“VIRGINITY.” BY
CHARLES WILLS
the modern home, where little room is
found for larger sculpture. The statuettes
of Mr. Charles Wills, of Nottingham are
rare examples of a power to fulfil statuette
requirements. They are nothing if not
expressive, and they suggest that the artist
did not in a pleasantly concoctive manner
choose his theme, but that his theme chose
him—with irresistible force and inspira-
tion, and that the subsequent proceedings
were under thematic domination. To this
their success is attributable. 0 a
SHEFFIELD. — Mr. Stanley Royle,
R.B.A. has recently accomplished the
difficult task of setting down on four
canvases all that an artist might convey of
a great modern industrial city—the city
of Sheffield. That the result of Mr.
Royle's work is successful is not surprising,
for the artist's ability as a painter has come
to the assistance of his very full knowledge
of the city whose features he has known
so well from boyhood days. 0 0
Travellers through Sheffield by either
of its railway arteries usually carry away
vivid impressions of grime and of industry
run riot in an all but smoke-obscured
valley. The impression of Sheffield thus
gained is a libel, and Mr. Royle's pictures
say that it is. And they speak the truth.
Mr. Royle, knowing the ground, has given
us winding streets and hilly backgrounds ;
the jerky silhouettes of architectural
features both great and small, silhouettes
which, apart from the chimneys, belong
more appropriately to a terraced town on
the Riviera front than to a modern hive of
industry. 00000
In the one purely landscape picture of
the four, Sheffield from Mayfield Valley,
a view of the western residential area, Mr.
Royle may be said to have added many
laurels to his growing reputation as a
landscape painter. 0000
The four works have been reproduced
by a process which has done very full
justice to the artist's work, and their
publication is interesting alike toboth public
and artists. The complete portrayal of
a whole city by an accomplished present-
day artist is an enterprise worthy of
emulation by any city whose civic sense
would desire the handing down in full of
its contemporary history. B. J. C.
156