DOI issue:
No. 388 (July 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0076
BRUSSELS—PIETERMARITZBURG—MONTREAL
children are a painful sight—uncouth,
rickety, backward. They seem to be the
result of the unhealthy overcrowding and
ill-nourishment among the industrial popu-
lation. The landscapes assist in producing
the sombre atmosphere, consisting mainly
of rain-sodden lands, cut up by livid
puddles, and cloudy menacing skies. 0
This deaf-mute painter has just suffered
the cruel and irreparable loss of his sight.
It needs an effort of the imagination to
conceive of this noble thinker and powerful
artist absolutely cut off from all communi-
cation with the outside world, unable to
express any thought or to learn anything
new. Did Dante in his " Inferno " con-
ceive a more dreadful torture i P. L.
PIETERMARITZBURG. — It may
seem a far cry from engineering to
pictorial art, but Mr. Cathcart W.
Methuen, one of whose works we give
here, was formerly engineer-in-chief of
Greenock, Scotland, and came out to South
Africa to open up Durban harbour in
1888, He practised art even in the early
days in Scotland, and one of two illus-
trated books produced by him deals with
" Greenock and its Harbour." Mr.
Methuen, besides holding successful one-
man shows of his own work, has taken a
very active part in the encouragement of
art in South Africa. He founded the
Durban Municipal Art Gallery (giving the
first picture), which has now developed
into a large and fine collection, and is
excellently housed in the new Municipal
Buildings. For about twelve years he
was president of the Natal Society of
Artists, and he is an associate of the
South African Society of Artists. Mr.
Methuen retired from the engineering
profession some years ago, and has since
practised art professionally, gaining much
success and winning general esteem in the
Colony. 00000
MONTREAL.—Of Mrs. Mary East-
lake it may truly be said that she
was born to her work. She has individual
vision. Both the sketch and the finished
work from her hand show personality,
" THE SENTINEL " (MONT-AUX-
SOURCES, DRAHENSBERG)
BY CATHCART W. METHUEN
70
children are a painful sight—uncouth,
rickety, backward. They seem to be the
result of the unhealthy overcrowding and
ill-nourishment among the industrial popu-
lation. The landscapes assist in producing
the sombre atmosphere, consisting mainly
of rain-sodden lands, cut up by livid
puddles, and cloudy menacing skies. 0
This deaf-mute painter has just suffered
the cruel and irreparable loss of his sight.
It needs an effort of the imagination to
conceive of this noble thinker and powerful
artist absolutely cut off from all communi-
cation with the outside world, unable to
express any thought or to learn anything
new. Did Dante in his " Inferno " con-
ceive a more dreadful torture i P. L.
PIETERMARITZBURG. — It may
seem a far cry from engineering to
pictorial art, but Mr. Cathcart W.
Methuen, one of whose works we give
here, was formerly engineer-in-chief of
Greenock, Scotland, and came out to South
Africa to open up Durban harbour in
1888, He practised art even in the early
days in Scotland, and one of two illus-
trated books produced by him deals with
" Greenock and its Harbour." Mr.
Methuen, besides holding successful one-
man shows of his own work, has taken a
very active part in the encouragement of
art in South Africa. He founded the
Durban Municipal Art Gallery (giving the
first picture), which has now developed
into a large and fine collection, and is
excellently housed in the new Municipal
Buildings. For about twelve years he
was president of the Natal Society of
Artists, and he is an associate of the
South African Society of Artists. Mr.
Methuen retired from the engineering
profession some years ago, and has since
practised art professionally, gaining much
success and winning general esteem in the
Colony. 00000
MONTREAL.—Of Mrs. Mary East-
lake it may truly be said that she
was born to her work. She has individual
vision. Both the sketch and the finished
work from her hand show personality,
" THE SENTINEL " (MONT-AUX-
SOURCES, DRAHENSBERG)
BY CATHCART W. METHUEN
70