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#0063
GLASGOW
" MY PARENTS' FAMILY "
BY ROBERT SIVELL
I do not know, but one thing is certain, that canvas The Pink Sunshade, in the present
he still expresses a distinct personality in exhibition of the Royal Academy. a
his work. Followers of his various pictures One often wonders if ever again a
which have appeared from time to time in similar wave of artistry will sweep over the
The Studio will all be familiar with his industrial grey city of Glasgow as that
art as a portrait and landscape painter. To which did some 30 odd years ago, uni-
them the accompanying illustration, Sum- versally known as the Glasgow School.
mer-Clad, will be further interesting in Perhaps never as a united body of enthu-
displaying his outlook and treatment of a siasts, but there are, in its midst, a few
nude study. E. A. T. individually to whom one may yet look, and
amongst them must be included the name
GLASGOW.—Thosewho interest them- of Mr. Robert Sivell, whose My Parents'
selves in the younger generation of Family is here illustrated. It is a large
Glasgow women artists, cannot have failed canvas painted some few years ago when
to observe the rapid and personal progress quite a young man. In it he has thought-
notable in the work of Miss Helen S. fully composed all the members of the
Johnston. It is perhaps as an artist in the Sivell family, including on the left-hand
themes embodying figures and landscapes side a partially back view of himself, and
in sunlight in which she excels ; subjects were it but the only work by which to
in which the light scintillates amongst predict his future, one could not but admit
luxuriant greens of midsummer, so attrac- that it suggests no ordinary one. But the
tive to look upon, but in their vividness artist has travelled further in his strong
so easy to make raw and commonplace in sincerity and search for that which cul-
paint. But Miss Johnston manages with minates as a work of art, and perhaps one
her thoughtful sense of observation to make of the most outstanding pictures as such
them artistically interesting. Her The Blue is his simply treated figure subject en-
Butterfly, here reproduced, is especially titled A Window in the Country, in the
attractive in its glowing scheme, as also is present exhibition of the Royal Scottish
her similarly characteristically composed Academy. E. A. T.
43
" MY PARENTS' FAMILY "
BY ROBERT SIVELL
I do not know, but one thing is certain, that canvas The Pink Sunshade, in the present
he still expresses a distinct personality in exhibition of the Royal Academy. a
his work. Followers of his various pictures One often wonders if ever again a
which have appeared from time to time in similar wave of artistry will sweep over the
The Studio will all be familiar with his industrial grey city of Glasgow as that
art as a portrait and landscape painter. To which did some 30 odd years ago, uni-
them the accompanying illustration, Sum- versally known as the Glasgow School.
mer-Clad, will be further interesting in Perhaps never as a united body of enthu-
displaying his outlook and treatment of a siasts, but there are, in its midst, a few
nude study. E. A. T. individually to whom one may yet look, and
amongst them must be included the name
GLASGOW.—Thosewho interest them- of Mr. Robert Sivell, whose My Parents'
selves in the younger generation of Family is here illustrated. It is a large
Glasgow women artists, cannot have failed canvas painted some few years ago when
to observe the rapid and personal progress quite a young man. In it he has thought-
notable in the work of Miss Helen S. fully composed all the members of the
Johnston. It is perhaps as an artist in the Sivell family, including on the left-hand
themes embodying figures and landscapes side a partially back view of himself, and
in sunlight in which she excels ; subjects were it but the only work by which to
in which the light scintillates amongst predict his future, one could not but admit
luxuriant greens of midsummer, so attrac- that it suggests no ordinary one. But the
tive to look upon, but in their vividness artist has travelled further in his strong
so easy to make raw and commonplace in sincerity and search for that which cul-
paint. But Miss Johnston manages with minates as a work of art, and perhaps one
her thoughtful sense of observation to make of the most outstanding pictures as such
them artistically interesting. Her The Blue is his simply treated figure subject en-
Butterfly, here reproduced, is especially titled A Window in the Country, in the
attractive in its glowing scheme, as also is present exhibition of the Royal Scottish
her similarly characteristically composed Academy. E. A. T.
43