DOI issue:
No. 389 (August 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0124
LONDON
of portraits and pictures which was of
much more than average importance.
His portraits were attractive in their dis-
tinction of style, their vigour of handling
and their soundness of characterisation,
and were marked by a considerable degree
of wholesome vitality. The picture,
Temptation, with its admirable technical
quality, its richness of colour and its
clever management of an effect of arti-
ficial lighting, was a conspicuous feature
of the show. In the same gallery there
has been an exhibition of sculpture by
Mr. Cecil Thomas, who is a shrewd
student of character and an able crafts-
man ; he showed some excellent portrait
busts and statuettes and an important
memorial in bronze to the late Lieut. Alfred
Forster. a a a a a
A memorial exhibition, at the Arlington
Gallery, of paintings by the late Benjamin
Haughton deserves to be mentioned,
because the artist represented had more
than ordinary seriousness of purpose and
restraint in expression. He was a sensitive
and accurate student of nature, who
observed his subjects with much subtlety
and recorded them with delightful delicacy
and refinement of manner. Many sug-
gestions of sympathy with the Pre-
Raphaelite movement appear in his work,
but he interpreted the Pre-Raphaelite
principles in a way of his own and gave a
pleasant individuality to his paintings.
The exhibition was especially welcome
because it illustrated a type of art which
is comparatively uncommon in these
modern days. 0000
Water-colours of Sunny Lands, by Mr.
Knighton Hammond, and paintings of
Gardens of Romance, by Mr. Tom Mostyn,
were the most important of the recent shows
in the galleries of the Fine Art Society.
Mr. Hammond is an accomplished painter
who handles his medium with masterly
decision and is unusually vigorous in his
manner of statement, but who can when
necessary render subtleties of illumination
and atmospheric effect with real charm.
The collection he brought together gave a
very pleasant impression of his capacities.
Mr. Mostyn's garden fancies were as con-
vincing as ever in their richness of colour
and sumptuousness of effect, and the
Devonshire landscapes he showed with
118
"NO HURRY." DRYPOINT
BY FRANK GILLETT, R.I.
(Soc. of Graphic Art, Exhibn.)
them were admirable in their largeness of
manner and breadth of treatment. He
deals very successfully with the expansive
distances of the Devon moors and the
misty sunlight of the coast—in this side of
his practice he is even more attractive than
in his gorgeous designs and romantic
compositions. 0000
The reproduction given of the picture,
Jeanie, by Mr. P. Naviasky, illustrates the
work of an artist who has definitely per-
sonal methods and much strength of
conviction and independence of outlook.
The other reproduction—of the statue,
Syrinx, by Mr. W. McMillan, which was
shown in this year's exhibition of the
Royal Academy — represents well the
achievement of a very able sculptor. For
this statue Mr. McMillan, who was
recently elected an Associate of the
Academy, was awarded the medal of the
Royal Society of British Sculptors for the
best work of the year. 000
A small number of art students have
formed themselves into a group, and are
offering to do mural decorations in clubs
and other institutions in slums. They
feel that in so doing they will be helping,
to make life a little less drab for those
who live in mean surroundings, and that
they will gain much experience in their
own work. Membership of the group
is open to artists who are in sympathy
with these aims, and who would be
of portraits and pictures which was of
much more than average importance.
His portraits were attractive in their dis-
tinction of style, their vigour of handling
and their soundness of characterisation,
and were marked by a considerable degree
of wholesome vitality. The picture,
Temptation, with its admirable technical
quality, its richness of colour and its
clever management of an effect of arti-
ficial lighting, was a conspicuous feature
of the show. In the same gallery there
has been an exhibition of sculpture by
Mr. Cecil Thomas, who is a shrewd
student of character and an able crafts-
man ; he showed some excellent portrait
busts and statuettes and an important
memorial in bronze to the late Lieut. Alfred
Forster. a a a a a
A memorial exhibition, at the Arlington
Gallery, of paintings by the late Benjamin
Haughton deserves to be mentioned,
because the artist represented had more
than ordinary seriousness of purpose and
restraint in expression. He was a sensitive
and accurate student of nature, who
observed his subjects with much subtlety
and recorded them with delightful delicacy
and refinement of manner. Many sug-
gestions of sympathy with the Pre-
Raphaelite movement appear in his work,
but he interpreted the Pre-Raphaelite
principles in a way of his own and gave a
pleasant individuality to his paintings.
The exhibition was especially welcome
because it illustrated a type of art which
is comparatively uncommon in these
modern days. 0000
Water-colours of Sunny Lands, by Mr.
Knighton Hammond, and paintings of
Gardens of Romance, by Mr. Tom Mostyn,
were the most important of the recent shows
in the galleries of the Fine Art Society.
Mr. Hammond is an accomplished painter
who handles his medium with masterly
decision and is unusually vigorous in his
manner of statement, but who can when
necessary render subtleties of illumination
and atmospheric effect with real charm.
The collection he brought together gave a
very pleasant impression of his capacities.
Mr. Mostyn's garden fancies were as con-
vincing as ever in their richness of colour
and sumptuousness of effect, and the
Devonshire landscapes he showed with
118
"NO HURRY." DRYPOINT
BY FRANK GILLETT, R.I.
(Soc. of Graphic Art, Exhibn.)
them were admirable in their largeness of
manner and breadth of treatment. He
deals very successfully with the expansive
distances of the Devon moors and the
misty sunlight of the coast—in this side of
his practice he is even more attractive than
in his gorgeous designs and romantic
compositions. 0000
The reproduction given of the picture,
Jeanie, by Mr. P. Naviasky, illustrates the
work of an artist who has definitely per-
sonal methods and much strength of
conviction and independence of outlook.
The other reproduction—of the statue,
Syrinx, by Mr. W. McMillan, which was
shown in this year's exhibition of the
Royal Academy — represents well the
achievement of a very able sculptor. For
this statue Mr. McMillan, who was
recently elected an Associate of the
Academy, was awarded the medal of the
Royal Society of British Sculptors for the
best work of the year. 000
A small number of art students have
formed themselves into a group, and are
offering to do mural decorations in clubs
and other institutions in slums. They
feel that in so doing they will be helping,
to make life a little less drab for those
who live in mean surroundings, and that
they will gain much experience in their
own work. Membership of the group
is open to artists who are in sympathy
with these aims, and who would be