DOI issue:
No. 377 (August 1924)
DOI article:Stephens, Jessica Walker: Cecile Walton and Dorothy Johnstone
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0103
CECILE WALTON AND DOROTHY JOHNSTONE
" REST TIME IN THE LIFE CLASS "
BY DOROTHY JOHNSTONE
In Cecile Walton's art the finite is the and her work has been invited to the
servant of the infinite. Her technique International Arts Exhibition, Arts Insti-
fulfils its duty of minister perfectly, being tute, Chicago. 0000
simple, delicate and strong. It never It seems to matter little whether this
offends by coming between seer and daughter of the Glasgow School (of
vision, but it never fails in its duty of which her father, the late E. A. Walton,
conveyance. The all-important visions are P.R.S.W., R.S.A., was a distinguished
those of the Celtic mind at its finest— son) uses pencil, paint, scuplture, thea-
elemental, purely truthful, touching the trical designing or any other medium, for
transcendental through the sincerely all these media serve one end—the expres-
human. The dedication is to mankind—to sion of life through personality. The
mental rather than to physical mankind, estimate of Miss Walton's work is every-
Over work of this sort, with its equipment where very high, and as she is young in
of the sanity of genius, the critic is tempted years and steady and rapid in advance-
to become rhapsodical, as in consideration ment, there is probably no goal which is
of the rare. a a 0 a 0 impossible for her. 0000
Born in 1891, Miss Walton (who is now Dorothy Johnstone is the daughter of
Mrs. Eric Robertson) studied modelling G. W. Johnstone, R.S.A., R.S.W., and
under Mr. Percy Portsmouth, and at the was born in 1892. She studied in Paris
Grande Chaumiere and La Palette in Paris, and then in Florence, finally, in 1914, be-
She has a picture in Dunedin Gallery, coming a teacher at the Edinburgh College
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" REST TIME IN THE LIFE CLASS "
BY DOROTHY JOHNSTONE
In Cecile Walton's art the finite is the and her work has been invited to the
servant of the infinite. Her technique International Arts Exhibition, Arts Insti-
fulfils its duty of minister perfectly, being tute, Chicago. 0000
simple, delicate and strong. It never It seems to matter little whether this
offends by coming between seer and daughter of the Glasgow School (of
vision, but it never fails in its duty of which her father, the late E. A. Walton,
conveyance. The all-important visions are P.R.S.W., R.S.A., was a distinguished
those of the Celtic mind at its finest— son) uses pencil, paint, scuplture, thea-
elemental, purely truthful, touching the trical designing or any other medium, for
transcendental through the sincerely all these media serve one end—the expres-
human. The dedication is to mankind—to sion of life through personality. The
mental rather than to physical mankind, estimate of Miss Walton's work is every-
Over work of this sort, with its equipment where very high, and as she is young in
of the sanity of genius, the critic is tempted years and steady and rapid in advance-
to become rhapsodical, as in consideration ment, there is probably no goal which is
of the rare. a a 0 a 0 impossible for her. 0000
Born in 1891, Miss Walton (who is now Dorothy Johnstone is the daughter of
Mrs. Eric Robertson) studied modelling G. W. Johnstone, R.S.A., R.S.W., and
under Mr. Percy Portsmouth, and at the was born in 1892. She studied in Paris
Grande Chaumiere and La Palette in Paris, and then in Florence, finally, in 1914, be-
She has a picture in Dunedin Gallery, coming a teacher at the Edinburgh College
83