DOI issue:
No. 373 (April 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0236
EDINBURGH
Edinburgh.—The art of wood block
cutting has perhaps not made the same
wide appeal to artists in this country as it
has to those on the Continent. It will be
noticeable, however, that each year the
practice of it in Scotland and Eng-
land is becoming more widespread,
with some exceptionally uncommon re-
" CANDLEMAKER ROW "
BY WILLIAM CROZIER
“ THE FERRY, MONTREUIL.” COLOURED
WOODCUT BY E. YORK BRUNTON
suits. Amongst the few artists in Edin-
burgh who have most successfully ex-
ploited it, the name of Miss E. York
Brunton must be numbered as one of the
outstanding, her work always being
amongst the distinguished in any home
exhibition of note in which woodcuts are
included. Of other centres which have
already shown her practical appreciation,
mention may be made of New York,
Boston, Japan, Leipzig and Holland. At
present she is busy on a series of Dolomite
woodcuts the outcome of a sojourn amongst
those fascinating steeps and valleys. The
Ferry, Montreuil, being reminiscent of
another of her attractive sketching-grounds
on the other side of the Channel. a
Candlemaker Row, by William Crozier,
is a typical example of the subject which
attracts his artistic impulses and excellently
assimilates itself with his broad and per-
sonal technique. In its composition, inci-
dent and colour, it vividly recalls similar
streets in the Latin Quarter of Paris
which, too, entice the artists who frequent
the many academies in that neighbourhood.
But Mr. Crozier owes his training to the
Edinburgh College of Art, and is one of
the younger group of painters who have not
long left its set tasks ; and from his work
already prominently exhibited in the Royal
Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow
Institute of Fine Arts,much is yet expected
from him. E. A. T.
218
Edinburgh.—The art of wood block
cutting has perhaps not made the same
wide appeal to artists in this country as it
has to those on the Continent. It will be
noticeable, however, that each year the
practice of it in Scotland and Eng-
land is becoming more widespread,
with some exceptionally uncommon re-
" CANDLEMAKER ROW "
BY WILLIAM CROZIER
“ THE FERRY, MONTREUIL.” COLOURED
WOODCUT BY E. YORK BRUNTON
suits. Amongst the few artists in Edin-
burgh who have most successfully ex-
ploited it, the name of Miss E. York
Brunton must be numbered as one of the
outstanding, her work always being
amongst the distinguished in any home
exhibition of note in which woodcuts are
included. Of other centres which have
already shown her practical appreciation,
mention may be made of New York,
Boston, Japan, Leipzig and Holland. At
present she is busy on a series of Dolomite
woodcuts the outcome of a sojourn amongst
those fascinating steeps and valleys. The
Ferry, Montreuil, being reminiscent of
another of her attractive sketching-grounds
on the other side of the Channel. a
Candlemaker Row, by William Crozier,
is a typical example of the subject which
attracts his artistic impulses and excellently
assimilates itself with his broad and per-
sonal technique. In its composition, inci-
dent and colour, it vividly recalls similar
streets in the Latin Quarter of Paris
which, too, entice the artists who frequent
the many academies in that neighbourhood.
But Mr. Crozier owes his training to the
Edinburgh College of Art, and is one of
the younger group of painters who have not
long left its set tasks ; and from his work
already prominently exhibited in the Royal
Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow
Institute of Fine Arts,much is yet expected
from him. E. A. T.
218