DOI Heft:
No. 375 (June 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Artikel:Reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0359
EDINBURGH
Edinburgh. — when questing
through the galleries devoted to water-
colour drawings in the various annual ex-
hibitions in Edinburgh and Glasgow, one
seldom fails to be arrested by the works of
Mr. Charles Napier, R.S.W. Not that they
shout for attention by their brilliancy of
colour, or strength of outline, but by their
more gentle lyrical quality and certain
colour delicacy, sensitively and alluringly
employedfwith a genuine feeling and evident
love of his medium. Various Edinburgh
street scenes have lately drawn his artistic
intentions, and his exhibited results of
them have always been characteristically
refined and attractive, bearing on their sur-
face, as well as in their lyrical depth, a
kindly impress of his mind of the time.
They may not all be profound, but they
have the virtue of being a genuine outcome
of desiring to arrest with his brush the
passing of certain moods of nature. Like
manyother sensitive artists,his chief delight
when a small boy was to dabble with a box
of paints, and while still at school his first
water-colour was hung at The Royal
Scottish Academy. But he was, perhaps,
more fortunate than some, in having very
appreciative parents, who, though desiring
that he should follow medicine as a career,
willingly permitted him after one year's
study to abandon it, to enrol himself as a
student in the Edinburgh College of Art.
There before him the future lay as a flowery
way. Much continental travelling occu-
pied his vacations, and at one time he
might be found sketching either in Holland,
France, Belgium or Italy. Attracted in his
early days by the work of Jacob Maris, il-
lustrated in The Studio, it was through
seeing it, he mentions, that he made up his
mind to be an artist, and it is interesting to
note that his first continental Mecca was
Holland, whence he returned with many
water-colours of its towns, windmills, and
long stretches of sunlit sands, by some of
which he was elected a member of The
Royal Scottish Society of Painters inWater-
Colours. Still being a young man with a
bright outlook, he feels that his best
things have yet to come fully] to realise
his dreams. E. A. T.
A CANAL IN GHENT.” WATER-COLOUR
BY CHARLES NAPIER, R.S.W.
(By courtesy of David Small, Esq.)
340
Edinburgh. — when questing
through the galleries devoted to water-
colour drawings in the various annual ex-
hibitions in Edinburgh and Glasgow, one
seldom fails to be arrested by the works of
Mr. Charles Napier, R.S.W. Not that they
shout for attention by their brilliancy of
colour, or strength of outline, but by their
more gentle lyrical quality and certain
colour delicacy, sensitively and alluringly
employedfwith a genuine feeling and evident
love of his medium. Various Edinburgh
street scenes have lately drawn his artistic
intentions, and his exhibited results of
them have always been characteristically
refined and attractive, bearing on their sur-
face, as well as in their lyrical depth, a
kindly impress of his mind of the time.
They may not all be profound, but they
have the virtue of being a genuine outcome
of desiring to arrest with his brush the
passing of certain moods of nature. Like
manyother sensitive artists,his chief delight
when a small boy was to dabble with a box
of paints, and while still at school his first
water-colour was hung at The Royal
Scottish Academy. But he was, perhaps,
more fortunate than some, in having very
appreciative parents, who, though desiring
that he should follow medicine as a career,
willingly permitted him after one year's
study to abandon it, to enrol himself as a
student in the Edinburgh College of Art.
There before him the future lay as a flowery
way. Much continental travelling occu-
pied his vacations, and at one time he
might be found sketching either in Holland,
France, Belgium or Italy. Attracted in his
early days by the work of Jacob Maris, il-
lustrated in The Studio, it was through
seeing it, he mentions, that he made up his
mind to be an artist, and it is interesting to
note that his first continental Mecca was
Holland, whence he returned with many
water-colours of its towns, windmills, and
long stretches of sunlit sands, by some of
which he was elected a member of The
Royal Scottish Society of Painters inWater-
Colours. Still being a young man with a
bright outlook, he feels that his best
things have yet to come fully] to realise
his dreams. E. A. T.
A CANAL IN GHENT.” WATER-COLOUR
BY CHARLES NAPIER, R.S.W.
(By courtesy of David Small, Esq.)
340