DOI Heft:
No. 303 (June 1925)
DOI Artikel:Sheringham, H. T.: The reserves of Mr. Frank Reynolds
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0312
THE RESERVES OF MR. FRANK REYNOLDS
Long-suffering Husband : " / say, Monica, let's leave Chelsea,
and sit on chairs again "
pen drawing by
frank reynolds, r.i.
(By courtesy of " Punch ")
at the secret of his success in making us In nearly all his work there is some hint
happier. The matter of craftsmanship, of of regions beyond. Take that Reveller,
course, need not be discussed. The for instance. It is a delicious situation,
samples of his work reproduced here are One's very pen splutters blots of amuse-
proof enough of the master's hand and ment in touching on it. But one can
eye in true combination. But you can imagine the artist, if he chose to do so,
have the complete executant without that giving the picture a very different atmo-
gift of seeing implications as well as sphere. Was it not Hokusai who depicted
things. You can have a humorist who faces in a rather similar attitude of
does not appreciate how close is nature's attendance, faces which it is not good to
linking of the smile and the tear. Such a see i Then there is the " Rather Famous
series as " A Great Revival " is much more Poet," which might inspire a whole satire
than a mere joke, though in that capacity on modern values and valuations. Some-
too it must have fully served its purpose, where up his sleeve, one feels, the artist
I will go bail for it that it has nerved must have an alarming gallery of notable
many a victim to proceed smiling from the persons. Places, too —■ that vision of
grim ante-chamber into the Presence Chelsea without chairs suggests even
itself, where are the adjustable chair, the grimmer geography somewhere in
drill, and the other penalties of procrastina- being, a a 0 0 a 0
tion. But while one smiles one cannot If one turns to his colour work the im-
ignore the tragedy being slowly enacted in pression of forces in reserve is strengthened,
our world by Juggernaut and petrol. Mr. Only one specimen is reproduced here, in
Reynolds might have headed his story—no, the frontispiece. It purports to be a
his poem of valour—" Morituri salutant," parody of a typical Old Master, and so
and who should gainsay i 0 0 0 regarded it gives at least one hearty laugh
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Long-suffering Husband : " / say, Monica, let's leave Chelsea,
and sit on chairs again "
pen drawing by
frank reynolds, r.i.
(By courtesy of " Punch ")
at the secret of his success in making us In nearly all his work there is some hint
happier. The matter of craftsmanship, of of regions beyond. Take that Reveller,
course, need not be discussed. The for instance. It is a delicious situation,
samples of his work reproduced here are One's very pen splutters blots of amuse-
proof enough of the master's hand and ment in touching on it. But one can
eye in true combination. But you can imagine the artist, if he chose to do so,
have the complete executant without that giving the picture a very different atmo-
gift of seeing implications as well as sphere. Was it not Hokusai who depicted
things. You can have a humorist who faces in a rather similar attitude of
does not appreciate how close is nature's attendance, faces which it is not good to
linking of the smile and the tear. Such a see i Then there is the " Rather Famous
series as " A Great Revival " is much more Poet," which might inspire a whole satire
than a mere joke, though in that capacity on modern values and valuations. Some-
too it must have fully served its purpose, where up his sleeve, one feels, the artist
I will go bail for it that it has nerved must have an alarming gallery of notable
many a victim to proceed smiling from the persons. Places, too —■ that vision of
grim ante-chamber into the Presence Chelsea without chairs suggests even
itself, where are the adjustable chair, the grimmer geography somewhere in
drill, and the other penalties of procrastina- being, a a 0 0 a 0
tion. But while one smiles one cannot If one turns to his colour work the im-
ignore the tragedy being slowly enacted in pression of forces in reserve is strengthened,
our world by Juggernaut and petrol. Mr. Only one specimen is reproduced here, in
Reynolds might have headed his story—no, the frontispiece. It purports to be a
his poem of valour—" Morituri salutant," parody of a typical Old Master, and so
and who should gainsay i 0 0 0 regarded it gives at least one hearty laugh
306