DOI issue:
No. 374 (May 1924)
DOI article:Mair, George H.: The art of Mr. A. J. Munnings, A.R.A.
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0265
THE ART OF MR. A. J. MUNNINGS, A.R.A.
THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF BATHURST ”
BY A. J. MUNNINGS, A.R.A.
painting of a particular subject, he should
be condemned to do it for the rest of his
life. One remembers Mr. Farquharson's
sheep, Mr. Peter Graham’s Highland
cattle, and later, painted with infinitely
more adroitness, Mr. Arnesby Brown's
cows in their English pastoral setting. Mr.
Munnings paints, of course, much more
expertly than the two first of these, but I
do not think he will allow himself too rigid
a specialism. a a a a
I should like to see him paint a real train.
No one has done it in England since
Turner, and the new railway combines who
are scattering their largesse over the Royal
Academy would, no doubt, be glad if he
would undertake the adventure, a a
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At any rate, if the railway companies
will not let him advertise their own
mechanisms, they ought to use his gifts
for celebrating the race-courses to which
they send so generous a profusion of
special trains. Now that our stations are
our picture galleries no artist need disdain
to avail himself of them, and there is a
quality in Mr. Munnings’s art which has
an immediate popular appeal. I advise the
companies who serve Newmarket, Doncas-
ter, Aintree, Epsom, Ascot and Goodwood
to call upon him. They will certainly get
their money’s worth, and a large public
which never goes to the Royal Academy
and would indeed deride the idea of going
inside its doors, will get its delight. a
THE RT. HON. THE EARL OF BATHURST ”
BY A. J. MUNNINGS, A.R.A.
painting of a particular subject, he should
be condemned to do it for the rest of his
life. One remembers Mr. Farquharson's
sheep, Mr. Peter Graham’s Highland
cattle, and later, painted with infinitely
more adroitness, Mr. Arnesby Brown's
cows in their English pastoral setting. Mr.
Munnings paints, of course, much more
expertly than the two first of these, but I
do not think he will allow himself too rigid
a specialism. a a a a
I should like to see him paint a real train.
No one has done it in England since
Turner, and the new railway combines who
are scattering their largesse over the Royal
Academy would, no doubt, be glad if he
would undertake the adventure, a a
246
At any rate, if the railway companies
will not let him advertise their own
mechanisms, they ought to use his gifts
for celebrating the race-courses to which
they send so generous a profusion of
special trains. Now that our stations are
our picture galleries no artist need disdain
to avail himself of them, and there is a
quality in Mr. Munnings’s art which has
an immediate popular appeal. I advise the
companies who serve Newmarket, Doncas-
ter, Aintree, Epsom, Ascot and Goodwood
to call upon him. They will certainly get
their money’s worth, and a large public
which never goes to the Royal Academy
and would indeed deride the idea of going
inside its doors, will get its delight. a