DOI Heft:
No. 377 (August 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: one hundred and ninety-three illustrations]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0117
LONDON
'•'RODIN." (PLASTER)
BY IVAN MESTROVIC
(Fine Art Society, Ltd.)
Michele Moroni, Sir Ernest Rutherford
and John Walter, Esq., in which he had
turned his opportunities to admirable
account. 0 0 0 0 0
There have been two or three attractive
exhibitions at the Beaux Arts Gallery
during the last few weeks. In one of them
Mr. Harold Speed showed an excellent
series of paintings and drawings, which
had markedly the qualities of design and
draughtsmanship always characteristic of
his work. Many of his landscapes were
impressive in their dignity and breadth of
effect, and all were sound in style, and his
drawings had great charm. In another
show there were some paintings and
drawings by Sir William Orpen, done
nearly twenty years ago ; they had great
interest not only because they mark an
important period in his development,
but also because of their vigour of accom-
plishment : a typical example, The Old
Coster, is reproduced here. There have
also been on view in this gallery some
water-colours by Mr. Rowley Smart,
whose work deserves to be noted for its
sincerity of intention and quiet decisive-
ness of treatment. He had gone for his
subjects to the Italian Lakes, and the
material he found there he turned to ex-
cellent account, handling it frankly and
without affectation. 0 a a 0
Mr. Gwelo Goodman's large collection
of South African landscapes, exhibited
in the Royal Institute Galleries, made a
considerable appeal by its individuality
of outlook and its robustness of executive
statement. He is a serious student of
nature, and he paints atmospheric effects
with much charm of suggestion and
landscape details with judicious realism.
At the same time, his pictures are not
merely literal assertions of obvious things ;
he knows how to convey the sentiment
of the subject he has selected, and how
to give it its due measure of dramatic
effect. In this exhibition he proved that
he has a wide range and that he can deal
successfully with very different kinds of
motives ; indeed, the variety of the col-
lection was quite as remarkable as its
well sustained power. 000
The reproduction given of Mr. Bur-
leigh Bruhl's picture, Morning in the
Bay, Lincomb, represents well an artist
who has for some time past occupied a
prominent place among the painters of
open-air subjects who know how to
" THE OLD COSTER." BY SIR
WILLIAM ORPEN, K.B.E., R.A.
(Beaux Arts Gallery)
97
'•'RODIN." (PLASTER)
BY IVAN MESTROVIC
(Fine Art Society, Ltd.)
Michele Moroni, Sir Ernest Rutherford
and John Walter, Esq., in which he had
turned his opportunities to admirable
account. 0 0 0 0 0
There have been two or three attractive
exhibitions at the Beaux Arts Gallery
during the last few weeks. In one of them
Mr. Harold Speed showed an excellent
series of paintings and drawings, which
had markedly the qualities of design and
draughtsmanship always characteristic of
his work. Many of his landscapes were
impressive in their dignity and breadth of
effect, and all were sound in style, and his
drawings had great charm. In another
show there were some paintings and
drawings by Sir William Orpen, done
nearly twenty years ago ; they had great
interest not only because they mark an
important period in his development,
but also because of their vigour of accom-
plishment : a typical example, The Old
Coster, is reproduced here. There have
also been on view in this gallery some
water-colours by Mr. Rowley Smart,
whose work deserves to be noted for its
sincerity of intention and quiet decisive-
ness of treatment. He had gone for his
subjects to the Italian Lakes, and the
material he found there he turned to ex-
cellent account, handling it frankly and
without affectation. 0 a a 0
Mr. Gwelo Goodman's large collection
of South African landscapes, exhibited
in the Royal Institute Galleries, made a
considerable appeal by its individuality
of outlook and its robustness of executive
statement. He is a serious student of
nature, and he paints atmospheric effects
with much charm of suggestion and
landscape details with judicious realism.
At the same time, his pictures are not
merely literal assertions of obvious things ;
he knows how to convey the sentiment
of the subject he has selected, and how
to give it its due measure of dramatic
effect. In this exhibition he proved that
he has a wide range and that he can deal
successfully with very different kinds of
motives ; indeed, the variety of the col-
lection was quite as remarkable as its
well sustained power. 000
The reproduction given of Mr. Bur-
leigh Bruhl's picture, Morning in the
Bay, Lincomb, represents well an artist
who has for some time past occupied a
prominent place among the painters of
open-air subjects who know how to
" THE OLD COSTER." BY SIR
WILLIAM ORPEN, K.B.E., R.A.
(Beaux Arts Gallery)
97