DOI issue:
No. 183 (February 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0104
LONDON
"THE ROAD TO THE
QUARRY" WATER-
COLOUR BY P. H. JOWETT
in which the most attractive contributions
came from Mr. J. B. Souter, Mr. Iain
Macnab, Mr. Percy Smith, Mr. Ian
Strang, Mr. J. F. Greenwood, Mr. Jan
Daum, and Orovida ; and a large gather-
ing of pictures and sketches by Mr. A. W.
Enness at Messrs. Elliott and Fry's
Gallery. Mr. Enness is a landscape
painter of pleasant capacity and his work
shows acuteness of observation and a
good deal of technical skill. 0 0
A recent exhibition, at the Macrae
Gallery in the Fulham Road of pastels,
water-colours, drawings, etchings, litho-
graphs and colour woodcuts by the late
T. Austen Brown, claims attention as an
illustration of the versatility of an accom-
plished artist. In all the examples of his
work shown there was ample evidence of
a strongly personal outlook and a very real
command over the technicalities charac-
teristic of each of the mediums employed,
and there was seen always an admirable
sureness of draughtsmanship and a sensi-
tive understanding of nature. As a com-
plement to the memorial exhibition of the
artist's larger paintings, held a little while
98
ago at the Leicester Galleries, this show
was very welcome, 0000
Mr. F. O. Salisbury's " Pictures and
Holiday Sketches," exhibited in the gal-
leries of the Fine Art Society, included a
number of paintings of interiors and archi-
tectural subjects which gave a good impres-
sion of the artist's capacity ; they were well
drawn, firmly handled, and intelligently
observed, and they represented mainly well
chosen material. There were also some
interesting first sketches for important
decorative paintings, but the studies of
open-air subjects and atmospheric effects
were, on the whole, too matter-of-fact to
make any strong appeal. Mr. E. W.
Powell showed, at Walker's Galleries, a
large collection of his recent water-colours,
sound, capable performances with much
charm as sincere records of nature. 0
Mr. Dacres Adams, whose water-
colour, The Monument, Lower Thames
Street, is reproduced here, had recently
an exhibition of his work in the galleries
of the Fine Art Society, which gave an
emphatic demonstration of his powers as
a water-colour painter and of his sound
originality as an interpreter- of nature.
His art is exceedingly personal in style
and has a distinction of manner that
carries complete conviction ; his paintings
deserve high praise for their Tightness of
vision and their frank sincerity of treat-
ment and for their excellent sense of
decorative propriety. 000
The colour plate, Le Zinc, reproduces a
picture by Mr. T. C. Dugdale which was
exhibited a little while ago at the Goupil
Gallery. It is a characteristic example of
the work of a versatile and accomplished
painter who expresses himself with well-
directed facility and has a correct apprecia-
tion of the pictorial value of the subjects
he selects. As a study of tone relations
and an effect of lighting this picture has
a considerable degree of interest, and the
manner in which the motive has been
dealt with claims appreciation. 0 0
Miss C. Leslie's aquatint, My Studio
Window, shows how a subject apparently
unpromising can be turned to account by
an artist who is able to judge which is
the right way in which it should be
handled. This unlovely back-garden view
has proved itself in her hands to be not
"THE ROAD TO THE
QUARRY" WATER-
COLOUR BY P. H. JOWETT
in which the most attractive contributions
came from Mr. J. B. Souter, Mr. Iain
Macnab, Mr. Percy Smith, Mr. Ian
Strang, Mr. J. F. Greenwood, Mr. Jan
Daum, and Orovida ; and a large gather-
ing of pictures and sketches by Mr. A. W.
Enness at Messrs. Elliott and Fry's
Gallery. Mr. Enness is a landscape
painter of pleasant capacity and his work
shows acuteness of observation and a
good deal of technical skill. 0 0
A recent exhibition, at the Macrae
Gallery in the Fulham Road of pastels,
water-colours, drawings, etchings, litho-
graphs and colour woodcuts by the late
T. Austen Brown, claims attention as an
illustration of the versatility of an accom-
plished artist. In all the examples of his
work shown there was ample evidence of
a strongly personal outlook and a very real
command over the technicalities charac-
teristic of each of the mediums employed,
and there was seen always an admirable
sureness of draughtsmanship and a sensi-
tive understanding of nature. As a com-
plement to the memorial exhibition of the
artist's larger paintings, held a little while
98
ago at the Leicester Galleries, this show
was very welcome, 0000
Mr. F. O. Salisbury's " Pictures and
Holiday Sketches," exhibited in the gal-
leries of the Fine Art Society, included a
number of paintings of interiors and archi-
tectural subjects which gave a good impres-
sion of the artist's capacity ; they were well
drawn, firmly handled, and intelligently
observed, and they represented mainly well
chosen material. There were also some
interesting first sketches for important
decorative paintings, but the studies of
open-air subjects and atmospheric effects
were, on the whole, too matter-of-fact to
make any strong appeal. Mr. E. W.
Powell showed, at Walker's Galleries, a
large collection of his recent water-colours,
sound, capable performances with much
charm as sincere records of nature. 0
Mr. Dacres Adams, whose water-
colour, The Monument, Lower Thames
Street, is reproduced here, had recently
an exhibition of his work in the galleries
of the Fine Art Society, which gave an
emphatic demonstration of his powers as
a water-colour painter and of his sound
originality as an interpreter- of nature.
His art is exceedingly personal in style
and has a distinction of manner that
carries complete conviction ; his paintings
deserve high praise for their Tightness of
vision and their frank sincerity of treat-
ment and for their excellent sense of
decorative propriety. 000
The colour plate, Le Zinc, reproduces a
picture by Mr. T. C. Dugdale which was
exhibited a little while ago at the Goupil
Gallery. It is a characteristic example of
the work of a versatile and accomplished
painter who expresses himself with well-
directed facility and has a correct apprecia-
tion of the pictorial value of the subjects
he selects. As a study of tone relations
and an effect of lighting this picture has
a considerable degree of interest, and the
manner in which the motive has been
dealt with claims appreciation. 0 0
Miss C. Leslie's aquatint, My Studio
Window, shows how a subject apparently
unpromising can be turned to account by
an artist who is able to judge which is
the right way in which it should be
handled. This unlovely back-garden view
has proved itself in her hands to be not