DOI Heft:
No. 385 (April 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0244
CHARLESTON (U.S.A.)
and still another in rainy night, were
brought together in a harmonious whole, a
Jiro Harada.
CHARLESTON (U.S.A.). — Alice
Ravenel Huger Smith, water-colour
painter of cypress-swamps and lotus-fields
along the coast of South Carolina, and of
the herons and mocking-birds within these
faerie-haunts, is possibly the most notable
example in America of an artist not trained
in the schools and working from unique
motives. She is the daughter of a dis-
tinguished family of Charleston, South
Carolina, a city once like a bit of trans-
planted England, and still, in spite of the
economic ruin wrought two generations
ago by the Civil War, faithful to its
cultural heritage. No mere visitor to the
deserted rice-plantations could paint them
as this artist does. Yet her knowledge,
at once so exact and so deeply coloured
by emotion, is bodied forth in a form
entirely non-provincial. However steeped
in locality, an aquarelle from her brush
is abstract in a sense specially valued
"THE WHITE EGRET"
WATER-COLOUR BY
ALICE R. HUGER SMITH
238
"THE MAGNOLIA GRANDI-
FLORA." WATER-COLOUR
BY ALICE H. HUGER SMITH
by lovers of Chinese painting and the
" Floating-World Pictures." To inten-
sive study of Oriental art, more than to
any other discipline, she owes her mastery
of both design and colour. Her palette
though not tonally vivid, achieves brilliant
effects because of close values, subtle
repeats, and the flying touch with which the
clear wash is applied. In the highest
degree this painting is luminous. 0 0
Miss Smith is known and admired by
art-lovers in most of the larger cities of the
United States. In the South, which at
last, in varying degree, has made economic
recovery, she has been startlingly in-
fluential in helping to create new aesthetic
impulses. She has most graceful humi-
lity, indeed, and cares more about stimu-
lating a fresh and indigenous growth
of painting in places far from great
academies and galleries than she does
about her own very successful career. ^
Marietta Neff.
and still another in rainy night, were
brought together in a harmonious whole, a
Jiro Harada.
CHARLESTON (U.S.A.). — Alice
Ravenel Huger Smith, water-colour
painter of cypress-swamps and lotus-fields
along the coast of South Carolina, and of
the herons and mocking-birds within these
faerie-haunts, is possibly the most notable
example in America of an artist not trained
in the schools and working from unique
motives. She is the daughter of a dis-
tinguished family of Charleston, South
Carolina, a city once like a bit of trans-
planted England, and still, in spite of the
economic ruin wrought two generations
ago by the Civil War, faithful to its
cultural heritage. No mere visitor to the
deserted rice-plantations could paint them
as this artist does. Yet her knowledge,
at once so exact and so deeply coloured
by emotion, is bodied forth in a form
entirely non-provincial. However steeped
in locality, an aquarelle from her brush
is abstract in a sense specially valued
"THE WHITE EGRET"
WATER-COLOUR BY
ALICE R. HUGER SMITH
238
"THE MAGNOLIA GRANDI-
FLORA." WATER-COLOUR
BY ALICE H. HUGER SMITH
by lovers of Chinese painting and the
" Floating-World Pictures." To inten-
sive study of Oriental art, more than to
any other discipline, she owes her mastery
of both design and colour. Her palette
though not tonally vivid, achieves brilliant
effects because of close values, subtle
repeats, and the flying touch with which the
clear wash is applied. In the highest
degree this painting is luminous. 0 0
Miss Smith is known and admired by
art-lovers in most of the larger cities of the
United States. In the South, which at
last, in varying degree, has made economic
recovery, she has been startlingly in-
fluential in helping to create new aesthetic
impulses. She has most graceful humi-
lity, indeed, and cares more about stimu-
lating a fresh and indigenous growth
of painting in places far from great
academies and galleries than she does
about her own very successful career. ^
Marietta Neff.