DOI issue:
No. 377 (August 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: one hundred and ninety-three illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0122
LEEDS
" A YORKSHIRE LASS "
BY ERNEST FORBES
LEEDS.—First impressions at the York-
shire Art Exhibition, recently held here,
were excellent. Market Place, Richmond,
Yorks, by A. J. Crook, with its modern
method and quaint charm, brought an in-
mediate sense of well-being. Golden Youth
(George Graham), Summer Clouds (Stanley
Royle), The Valley of the Stour (Bertram
Priestman), and A Yorkshire Lass, a
strongly handled character study by Ernest
Forbes—these were hung together and
made a fine group. The Evening Hour
showed the charm of Owen Bowen's work
at its highest. Beauty of colour was in
Joseph A. Terry's A Smiling World, and
other works of varying merit brought one
to the work of Yorkshire's distinguished
son, David Jagger. There are few artists
whose methods are so exactly fitted to the
expression of their prevailing dream as his.
There are fewer still who can paint
feminine beauty—and feminine prettiness,
and that in a suave and silken manner,
and yet avoid any suspicion of the cheaply
attractive. Mr. Jagger is very clever in-
deed, and his main strength is in his
undoubted sincerity. The ladies are very
lovely—but they are real : we have them in
dozens, taking England as a whole. The
sculpture was a very small exhibition in-
deed, but Ernest Sichel's Perfume Cup
102
and Hilda A. Walker's dainty exhibits
seemed the most pleasing items, a p
The water-colour room was dignified
by one Brangwyn, La Immaculata, a
tragically brilliant portrayal of desolated
humanity. For the rest the standard here
was not so high as in the oil painting, and
there was little to notice. Cedars of Lebanon,
a drypoint by John Wright, and The Boat
Builder, an aquatint, by Harold Holden,
were the outstanding black and white
works. Hirst Walker and William Cart-
ledge showed good water-colours, a 0
The exhibition as a whole showed con-
siderable effort, and if it was not, in size or
in strength, quite all that might be ex-
pected from England's largest county, it
seemed that this is less the fault of the
artists than of the county. The dead
weight of materialism must be lightened
before the inhabitants of many of the
Yorkshire districts can have the art for
which, one is informed, they show real
and deep longing. The hanging, largely in
the hands of the curator, Mr. S. C.
Kaines Smith, M.A., was wisely and well
done. Jessica Stephens.
" TKE WHITE CAP "
BY DAVID JAGGER
" A YORKSHIRE LASS "
BY ERNEST FORBES
LEEDS.—First impressions at the York-
shire Art Exhibition, recently held here,
were excellent. Market Place, Richmond,
Yorks, by A. J. Crook, with its modern
method and quaint charm, brought an in-
mediate sense of well-being. Golden Youth
(George Graham), Summer Clouds (Stanley
Royle), The Valley of the Stour (Bertram
Priestman), and A Yorkshire Lass, a
strongly handled character study by Ernest
Forbes—these were hung together and
made a fine group. The Evening Hour
showed the charm of Owen Bowen's work
at its highest. Beauty of colour was in
Joseph A. Terry's A Smiling World, and
other works of varying merit brought one
to the work of Yorkshire's distinguished
son, David Jagger. There are few artists
whose methods are so exactly fitted to the
expression of their prevailing dream as his.
There are fewer still who can paint
feminine beauty—and feminine prettiness,
and that in a suave and silken manner,
and yet avoid any suspicion of the cheaply
attractive. Mr. Jagger is very clever in-
deed, and his main strength is in his
undoubted sincerity. The ladies are very
lovely—but they are real : we have them in
dozens, taking England as a whole. The
sculpture was a very small exhibition in-
deed, but Ernest Sichel's Perfume Cup
102
and Hilda A. Walker's dainty exhibits
seemed the most pleasing items, a p
The water-colour room was dignified
by one Brangwyn, La Immaculata, a
tragically brilliant portrayal of desolated
humanity. For the rest the standard here
was not so high as in the oil painting, and
there was little to notice. Cedars of Lebanon,
a drypoint by John Wright, and The Boat
Builder, an aquatint, by Harold Holden,
were the outstanding black and white
works. Hirst Walker and William Cart-
ledge showed good water-colours, a 0
The exhibition as a whole showed con-
siderable effort, and if it was not, in size or
in strength, quite all that might be ex-
pected from England's largest county, it
seemed that this is less the fault of the
artists than of the county. The dead
weight of materialism must be lightened
before the inhabitants of many of the
Yorkshire districts can have the art for
which, one is informed, they show real
and deep longing. The hanging, largely in
the hands of the curator, Mr. S. C.
Kaines Smith, M.A., was wisely and well
done. Jessica Stephens.
" TKE WHITE CAP "
BY DAVID JAGGER