DOI Heft:
No. 376 (July 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: one hundred and ninety-three illustrations]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0059
MANCHESTER—HEXHAM
MANCHESTER.—The world of art
holds a vast of various kinds of work,
and to all of it the one legitimate test
applicable is the word " sincerity." Mr.
Spencelayh's work passes this test. His
subjects—or those which most appeal to
him—are treated with a respect and a
tenderness which naturally infuse dignity
into the proceedings. He has delighted in
them and so they are delightful, because
he has fitted his workmanship to his de-
light. He is one of the most original of
Manchester artists. J. W. S.
HEXHAM.—Many Northern districts,
including that about Newcastle, seem
lacking in a grasp of the full national im-
portance of art; though they make efforts,
the reasons for such efforts seem to be
only half understood by the very makers
of them. The old bad order, of municipal
lunges at art, and of internecine disunity
among artists, has not yet given place, in
many districts, to a newer thought—that of
united undertaking by the educated for the
social weal. Hence the fact, recently com-
mented on by an intelligent resident in
this district, that " When an artist of more
than ordinary ability gets born into the
district he takes himself off to other
pastures as soon as he reaches years of
" INTERIOR." BY W. S. ANDER-
SON. (In the possession of H. W.
Goddard, Esq., Worcester, Mass.)
"A PORTRAIT." BY
CHARLES SPENCELAY H
discretion." This rule has its exceptions,
and one of them is Mr. W. S. Anderson, of
Hexham. This artist must be gifted with a
remarkable faculty for working, undis-
mayed, in comparative isolation, without
loss of elan, for one of the strongest im-
pressions conveyed by his work is that of
ultra-professionalism — as of something
done in the midst of artistic enlightenment
and atmosphere. There are many paintings
made by professional painters to which one
may pay tribute of admiration whilst
making allowances for a lack of that special,
subtle thoroughness which comes from
full technical knowledge imaginatively
used : no such allowances need be made
for Mr. Anderson's work. It is complete,
determinedly constructed, carried sym-
phonically to the last chord. This com-
pleteness gives great strength. One work
by this artist (a work now in America)
stood out conspicuously in a distinguished
group at last year's Royal Scottish Academy
—no small feat. He is certainly a painter of
whom his district may be proud and his
work in Newcastle Art Gallery shows that
appreciation is there. J. W. S.
39
MANCHESTER.—The world of art
holds a vast of various kinds of work,
and to all of it the one legitimate test
applicable is the word " sincerity." Mr.
Spencelayh's work passes this test. His
subjects—or those which most appeal to
him—are treated with a respect and a
tenderness which naturally infuse dignity
into the proceedings. He has delighted in
them and so they are delightful, because
he has fitted his workmanship to his de-
light. He is one of the most original of
Manchester artists. J. W. S.
HEXHAM.—Many Northern districts,
including that about Newcastle, seem
lacking in a grasp of the full national im-
portance of art; though they make efforts,
the reasons for such efforts seem to be
only half understood by the very makers
of them. The old bad order, of municipal
lunges at art, and of internecine disunity
among artists, has not yet given place, in
many districts, to a newer thought—that of
united undertaking by the educated for the
social weal. Hence the fact, recently com-
mented on by an intelligent resident in
this district, that " When an artist of more
than ordinary ability gets born into the
district he takes himself off to other
pastures as soon as he reaches years of
" INTERIOR." BY W. S. ANDER-
SON. (In the possession of H. W.
Goddard, Esq., Worcester, Mass.)
"A PORTRAIT." BY
CHARLES SPENCELAY H
discretion." This rule has its exceptions,
and one of them is Mr. W. S. Anderson, of
Hexham. This artist must be gifted with a
remarkable faculty for working, undis-
mayed, in comparative isolation, without
loss of elan, for one of the strongest im-
pressions conveyed by his work is that of
ultra-professionalism — as of something
done in the midst of artistic enlightenment
and atmosphere. There are many paintings
made by professional painters to which one
may pay tribute of admiration whilst
making allowances for a lack of that special,
subtle thoroughness which comes from
full technical knowledge imaginatively
used : no such allowances need be made
for Mr. Anderson's work. It is complete,
determinedly constructed, carried sym-
phonically to the last chord. This com-
pleteness gives great strength. One work
by this artist (a work now in America)
stood out conspicuously in a distinguished
group at last year's Royal Scottish Academy
—no small feat. He is certainly a painter of
whom his district may be proud and his
work in Newcastle Art Gallery shows that
appreciation is there. J. W. S.
39