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#0118
LONDON
CHALK STUDY. BY
AUSTIN O. SPARE
(Soc. of Independent Artists)
transcribe the facts of nature, and to make
them pictorially interesting without per-
verting actuality or reducing it to set
convention. His work is always attractive
and thoroughly satisfying. Mr. Bruhl,
it may be noted, is President of the Old
Dudley Art Society, and during the last
few years has worked consistently to
restore that society to its former position
as an association of artists of rank. It has
already, under Mr. Bruhl's guidance,
recovered much of its earlier character,
and its exhibition held during July at
Walters Galleries was of definite import-
ance. We hope to give a longer notice of
Mr. Bruhl's work in a later issue, 0 0
Although the exhibition of sculpture by
Ivan Mestrovic, in the Galleries of the
Fine Art Society, included muchthatseemed
needlessly grotesque and unduly archaic in
treatment, it had a personal atmosphere
that made it impressive, and it certainly
showed to advantage the sculptor's skill as a
craftsman. Among the more notable works
could be counted the Rodin and the Angel
Gabriel, and there were several portrait
98
busts admirably modelled and very sound
in characterisation, 0000
Miss Cathleen Mann's Child with Cat,
illustrated here, deserves to be noted as
the work of a young artist of promise.
She is the daughter of the well-known
painter of portraits and figure subjects,
Mr. Harrington Mann, and, judging
by the exhibition of her works held at
Mr. Dighton's gallery in Savile Row,
she is well qualified to carry on the family
tradition. The other reproduction, of
a chalk drawing by Mr. Austin O. Spare,
is welcome as representing an artist
whose work attracted much attention
some years ago by its almost uncanny
originality, but who has since that been
less frequently before the public. This
comes from the first exhibition of the
Society of Independent Artists, a group
lately formed, under the presidency of
Mr. Frank Brangwyn, with the aim of
bringing some examples of good modern
art before a public that does not habitually
patronise the Bond Street Galleries. The
show was held at the premises of Messrs.
Thomas Parsons and Sons, 315-317,
Oxford Street, who have already done
much to forward the art of colour
decoration. a 0 0 0 0
" CHILD WITH CAT." BY
CATHLEEN MANN
(Basil Dighton)
CHALK STUDY. BY
AUSTIN O. SPARE
(Soc. of Independent Artists)
transcribe the facts of nature, and to make
them pictorially interesting without per-
verting actuality or reducing it to set
convention. His work is always attractive
and thoroughly satisfying. Mr. Bruhl,
it may be noted, is President of the Old
Dudley Art Society, and during the last
few years has worked consistently to
restore that society to its former position
as an association of artists of rank. It has
already, under Mr. Bruhl's guidance,
recovered much of its earlier character,
and its exhibition held during July at
Walters Galleries was of definite import-
ance. We hope to give a longer notice of
Mr. Bruhl's work in a later issue, 0 0
Although the exhibition of sculpture by
Ivan Mestrovic, in the Galleries of the
Fine Art Society, included muchthatseemed
needlessly grotesque and unduly archaic in
treatment, it had a personal atmosphere
that made it impressive, and it certainly
showed to advantage the sculptor's skill as a
craftsman. Among the more notable works
could be counted the Rodin and the Angel
Gabriel, and there were several portrait
98
busts admirably modelled and very sound
in characterisation, 0000
Miss Cathleen Mann's Child with Cat,
illustrated here, deserves to be noted as
the work of a young artist of promise.
She is the daughter of the well-known
painter of portraits and figure subjects,
Mr. Harrington Mann, and, judging
by the exhibition of her works held at
Mr. Dighton's gallery in Savile Row,
she is well qualified to carry on the family
tradition. The other reproduction, of
a chalk drawing by Mr. Austin O. Spare,
is welcome as representing an artist
whose work attracted much attention
some years ago by its almost uncanny
originality, but who has since that been
less frequently before the public. This
comes from the first exhibition of the
Society of Independent Artists, a group
lately formed, under the presidency of
Mr. Frank Brangwyn, with the aim of
bringing some examples of good modern
art before a public that does not habitually
patronise the Bond Street Galleries. The
show was held at the premises of Messrs.
Thomas Parsons and Sons, 315-317,
Oxford Street, who have already done
much to forward the art of colour
decoration. a 0 0 0 0
" CHILD WITH CAT." BY
CATHLEEN MANN
(Basil Dighton)