DOI issue:
No. 374 (May 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0303
DUBLIN
"BOY FISHING.” BY
BERYL FOWLER
difficulty of this branch of portraiture.
She has also been highly successful in the
portraiture of men. a a a a
Mrs. Fowler studied for three years at
the Herkomer School at Bushey; for the
rest of her training she is herself largely
responsible. Her flexible and firmly com-
manded paint gives token of a naturally
developed technique. By parentage as by
the type of her production, Mrs. Fowler is
a true North Country artist. J.W. S.
DUBLIN.—There has been a plethora
of small picture shows latelyin Dublin,
of which three, held during the past month,
proved particularly attractive. The first
was an exhibition of oil paintings, figures
and landscapes, by Mr. Charles V. Lambe,
R.H.A. Then came an exhibition of sub-
ject pictures by Mr. Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.,
which by their variety and power aston-
ished even his most enthusiastic admirers.
Mr. Yeats showed forty oil paintings, all
in their degree important, and many of
extraordinary vigour and beauty. The
Swing, The Riverside and The Pilot come
ashore, all renderings of types and situ-
ations very familiar in Ireland, were lifted
284
by the intense observation and the roman-
tic understanding of the painter, into the
category of great art. The third exhibition
of note held recently was that of portrait
subjects, landscapes and drawings by Mrs.
Clarke, the wife of Mr. Harry Clarke,
whose achievement as a stained glass
artist and an illustrator should be familiar
to readers of The Studio. Before her
marriage Mrs. Clarke was well known in
Ireland as one of the most brilliant of
that remarkable group of students which
Sir William Orpen fostered during the few
years in which he acted as a teacher at the
Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Since
her marriage the cares of a growing house-
hold restricted Mrs. Clarke's artistic pro-
duction, but she has lately found leisure to
return again to her studio. The result of
her brilliant exhibition has been to remind
Dublin people of what an accomplished
painter she is, and to make them hope
that this, her first individual show, will
prove to be the first of an annual series, a
The ninety-fifth exhibition of the Royal
Hibernian Academy of Arts opened on
April 7th, in premises lent by the Dublin
Metropolitan School of Art. The Academy
have now been wandering without a local
habitation for eight years, since their pre-
mises were destroyed in the fire which
broke out in O’Connell Street after the
Rebellion of 19x6, and do not seem to have
taken any proper steps to repair the defi-
ciency. Their present exhibition continues
the retrogression which has marked all
their exhibitions in recent years. The
exhibits are few in number and poor in
quality. Including sculpture and drawings,
there are only 302 items shown. Nothing
of importance has been sent from oversea.
The best work is an admirable portrait of
a lady, by Miss Estella Solomons, ample in
spacing, charming in colour, thoroughly
competent in execution. It owes not a
little of its charm to the noble beauty of
the subject. Notable also are Mr. Tuohy’s
portrait of Stephen Joyce, Esq., the
father of James Joyce, the novelist; and
Mr. Leo Whelan’s Gipsy. Mr. Craig shows
five of his characteristic Northern land-
scapes. His merits were recognised by the
prompt purchase of two of these works
within two minutes of the opening cere-
mony. T. B.
"BOY FISHING.” BY
BERYL FOWLER
difficulty of this branch of portraiture.
She has also been highly successful in the
portraiture of men. a a a a
Mrs. Fowler studied for three years at
the Herkomer School at Bushey; for the
rest of her training she is herself largely
responsible. Her flexible and firmly com-
manded paint gives token of a naturally
developed technique. By parentage as by
the type of her production, Mrs. Fowler is
a true North Country artist. J.W. S.
DUBLIN.—There has been a plethora
of small picture shows latelyin Dublin,
of which three, held during the past month,
proved particularly attractive. The first
was an exhibition of oil paintings, figures
and landscapes, by Mr. Charles V. Lambe,
R.H.A. Then came an exhibition of sub-
ject pictures by Mr. Jack B. Yeats, R.H.A.,
which by their variety and power aston-
ished even his most enthusiastic admirers.
Mr. Yeats showed forty oil paintings, all
in their degree important, and many of
extraordinary vigour and beauty. The
Swing, The Riverside and The Pilot come
ashore, all renderings of types and situ-
ations very familiar in Ireland, were lifted
284
by the intense observation and the roman-
tic understanding of the painter, into the
category of great art. The third exhibition
of note held recently was that of portrait
subjects, landscapes and drawings by Mrs.
Clarke, the wife of Mr. Harry Clarke,
whose achievement as a stained glass
artist and an illustrator should be familiar
to readers of The Studio. Before her
marriage Mrs. Clarke was well known in
Ireland as one of the most brilliant of
that remarkable group of students which
Sir William Orpen fostered during the few
years in which he acted as a teacher at the
Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Since
her marriage the cares of a growing house-
hold restricted Mrs. Clarke's artistic pro-
duction, but she has lately found leisure to
return again to her studio. The result of
her brilliant exhibition has been to remind
Dublin people of what an accomplished
painter she is, and to make them hope
that this, her first individual show, will
prove to be the first of an annual series, a
The ninety-fifth exhibition of the Royal
Hibernian Academy of Arts opened on
April 7th, in premises lent by the Dublin
Metropolitan School of Art. The Academy
have now been wandering without a local
habitation for eight years, since their pre-
mises were destroyed in the fire which
broke out in O’Connell Street after the
Rebellion of 19x6, and do not seem to have
taken any proper steps to repair the defi-
ciency. Their present exhibition continues
the retrogression which has marked all
their exhibitions in recent years. The
exhibits are few in number and poor in
quality. Including sculpture and drawings,
there are only 302 items shown. Nothing
of importance has been sent from oversea.
The best work is an admirable portrait of
a lady, by Miss Estella Solomons, ample in
spacing, charming in colour, thoroughly
competent in execution. It owes not a
little of its charm to the noble beauty of
the subject. Notable also are Mr. Tuohy’s
portrait of Stephen Joyce, Esq., the
father of James Joyce, the novelist; and
Mr. Leo Whelan’s Gipsy. Mr. Craig shows
five of his characteristic Northern land-
scapes. His merits were recognised by the
prompt purchase of two of these works
within two minutes of the opening cere-
mony. T. B.