DOI Heft:
No. 390 (September 1925)
DOI Artikel:Bröchner, Georg: Miss Elizabeth Keith's colour prints
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0152
MISS ELIZABETH KEITH'S COLOUR
PRINTS. BY GEORG BROCHNER. 0
THE Lure of the East—I wonder for
how many centuries it has been like
some potent magnet to the Westerner, and
youthful minds more especially have
been swayed by its spell in a suave, in-
definite fashion. Did not young Sven
Hedin, the world-famed explorer, write a
lengthy poem : Till Osterland vill jag fara
(u To the East will I wander ") long before
he had much likelihood of ever doing so,
and however much their visionary longings
may have differed, did not Miss Elizabeth
Keith already as a child have vague
dreams of the Orient, of China i They have
both to the full seen the consummation
of their desires, have both quenched their
thirst at the fountain-head. 0 a
Miss Keith who has just returned to
England after some nine years' sojourn
in Japan, China, Korea and other Eastern
lands, having en route met with wide and
significant appreciation in the United
States from Museums and Universities,
Galleries and connoisseurs, has with her a
rich harvest, water-colours, colour prints,
sketches which at once have attracted much
and flattering attention in her own country.
She has travelled far and wide, passed
through many quaint, very quaint ex-
periences, has come upon and been in close
touch with men and scenes and places
which she may claim for her own. 0
Her colour prints seem to stand out by
themselves and possess much of the peculiar
charm and perhaps some of the mannerism
of Japanese prints—the hands may be
Esau's, but the voice is Jacob's. The
technique may be of Japan, but the concep-
tion of the motif, the angle from which she
approaches it, the scene, the mood of the
place, the hour of the day or of the night,
the whole atmosphere are Miss Keith's.
No Eastern artist has ever attempted, one is
tempted to say ever ventured to attempt, the
translating of some of these wondrous sights
into a print. Miss Keith has ventured
it and succeeded with much subtlety. 0
146
" THE BRIDGE, SOOCHOW." COLOUR
WOODCUT BY ELIZABETH KEITH
PRINTS. BY GEORG BROCHNER. 0
THE Lure of the East—I wonder for
how many centuries it has been like
some potent magnet to the Westerner, and
youthful minds more especially have
been swayed by its spell in a suave, in-
definite fashion. Did not young Sven
Hedin, the world-famed explorer, write a
lengthy poem : Till Osterland vill jag fara
(u To the East will I wander ") long before
he had much likelihood of ever doing so,
and however much their visionary longings
may have differed, did not Miss Elizabeth
Keith already as a child have vague
dreams of the Orient, of China i They have
both to the full seen the consummation
of their desires, have both quenched their
thirst at the fountain-head. 0 a
Miss Keith who has just returned to
England after some nine years' sojourn
in Japan, China, Korea and other Eastern
lands, having en route met with wide and
significant appreciation in the United
States from Museums and Universities,
Galleries and connoisseurs, has with her a
rich harvest, water-colours, colour prints,
sketches which at once have attracted much
and flattering attention in her own country.
She has travelled far and wide, passed
through many quaint, very quaint ex-
periences, has come upon and been in close
touch with men and scenes and places
which she may claim for her own. 0
Her colour prints seem to stand out by
themselves and possess much of the peculiar
charm and perhaps some of the mannerism
of Japanese prints—the hands may be
Esau's, but the voice is Jacob's. The
technique may be of Japan, but the concep-
tion of the motif, the angle from which she
approaches it, the scene, the mood of the
place, the hour of the day or of the night,
the whole atmosphere are Miss Keith's.
No Eastern artist has ever attempted, one is
tempted to say ever ventured to attempt, the
translating of some of these wondrous sights
into a print. Miss Keith has ventured
it and succeeded with much subtlety. 0
146
" THE BRIDGE, SOOCHOW." COLOUR
WOODCUT BY ELIZABETH KEITH