DOI issue:
No. 182 (January 1925)
DOI article:Richmond, Leonard: Canadian art at Wembley
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0025
CANADIAN ART AT WEMBLEY
" WINTER, GEORGIAN BAY." BY
ALEXANDER Y. JACKSON
well controlled ability in adapting the as pretty leaves or elegantly coloured
forms and colours of nature to a conven- water) showing only the bed-rock truth of
tional manner of design, without losing the subject with a Zola-like appreciation of
the essence of nature. This is clearly seen naked reality. The same remarks are
in his picture An Autumn Hillside. a somewhat applicable to A. Y. Jackson's
A group of twelve small oil pictures by picture (reproduced). He has excellently
the late Tom Thomson (lent by the demonstrated the perpetual struggle be-
National Gallery of Canada) painted tween young pine trees and the massive
spontaneously, reveal extraordinary vitality, weight of snow. This artist has been
Seen in a group on the wall, they sparkled honoured by the officials of the Tate
with a jewel-like radiance that was truly Gallery, London, who have purchased
refreshing. The same artist painted The one of his paintings for their collec-
Jack Pine, a large two-dimensional design, tion. Frederick H. Varley, A.R.C.A. and
rich in colour, which is reproduced on J. E. H. Macdonald, A.R.C.A. are both
page 21. I understand that Thomson was well represented with pictures of wide
the original founder of the Group of Seven, interest. J. William Beatty, R.C.A., and
an enterprising little band of painters who S. N. Loveroff, A.R.C.A., whilst not
have made a profound impression on the resorting to the more stringent and assertive
national standard of Canadian art. a style of painting, yet display first-class
Two paintings that deal with the primal artistic qualities in their work, that por-
forces of nature are September Gale, by tray the result of intimate knowledge of
Arthur Lismer, A.R.C.A., and Winter, nature. S. N. Loveroff in his oil
Georgian Bay, by Alexander Y. Jackson, painting Snow on the Hillside (reproduced),
R.C.A. In the former picture, nature is gives us good colour with a carefully
stripped of all superficial trimmings (such mapped out design, a a a a
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" WINTER, GEORGIAN BAY." BY
ALEXANDER Y. JACKSON
well controlled ability in adapting the as pretty leaves or elegantly coloured
forms and colours of nature to a conven- water) showing only the bed-rock truth of
tional manner of design, without losing the subject with a Zola-like appreciation of
the essence of nature. This is clearly seen naked reality. The same remarks are
in his picture An Autumn Hillside. a somewhat applicable to A. Y. Jackson's
A group of twelve small oil pictures by picture (reproduced). He has excellently
the late Tom Thomson (lent by the demonstrated the perpetual struggle be-
National Gallery of Canada) painted tween young pine trees and the massive
spontaneously, reveal extraordinary vitality, weight of snow. This artist has been
Seen in a group on the wall, they sparkled honoured by the officials of the Tate
with a jewel-like radiance that was truly Gallery, London, who have purchased
refreshing. The same artist painted The one of his paintings for their collec-
Jack Pine, a large two-dimensional design, tion. Frederick H. Varley, A.R.C.A. and
rich in colour, which is reproduced on J. E. H. Macdonald, A.R.C.A. are both
page 21. I understand that Thomson was well represented with pictures of wide
the original founder of the Group of Seven, interest. J. William Beatty, R.C.A., and
an enterprising little band of painters who S. N. Loveroff, A.R.C.A., whilst not
have made a profound impression on the resorting to the more stringent and assertive
national standard of Canadian art. a style of painting, yet display first-class
Two paintings that deal with the primal artistic qualities in their work, that por-
forces of nature are September Gale, by tray the result of intimate knowledge of
Arthur Lismer, A.R.C.A., and Winter, nature. S. N. Loveroff in his oil
Georgian Bay, by Alexander Y. Jackson, painting Snow on the Hillside (reproduced),
R.C.A. In the former picture, nature is gives us good colour with a carefully
stripped of all superficial trimmings (such mapped out design, a a a a
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