DOI Heft:
No. 390 (September 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0190
GLASGOW—MANCHESTER
BOOK-REST IN OAK. EMBROI-
DERY BY CONSTANCE ARMFIELD
(New Forest Group)
district, their own work will improve
and thrive on a much healthier basis
than if they unite to exhibit unrelated
work for personal ends alone. 0 a
Constance Smedley
(Organising Secretary),
LASGOW.—Amongst the younger
j- portrait painters in Glasgow, Mr.
J. B. Anderson takes a prominent place.
Several years ago he fully manifested the
advent of that position by an exhibition
of his work, unique in it being one entirely
composed of portraits, each one revealing
his interpretative power and ability to
embody in it the character of his sitter.
Though he has made Glasgow his home,
his native city of- Edinburgh Art School
must claim the first two years of his study,
from which he passed to four years'
tuition under George Harcourt, A.R.A.,
in the Allan Fraser Art College, Arbroath.
But like many another enthusiast, the
call of Paris enticed him, and he enrolled
his name in the Academie Julien, where
he further studied under the guidance of
J. P. Laurens, and in 1910 opened his
first studio in Glasgow to devote himself
principally to portraiture. The life of a
portrait painter is perhaps not one entirely
composed of emotional joy in his work,
184
at least the desires of certain subjects as
well as the subject do not always tend to
inspire it. But in that respect Mr.
Anderson has been one of the fortunate,
as I do not think he could mention any
instance in which he has wished to throw
down his brushes for want of enthusiasm
in his sitters ; and his work includes
attractive portraits of many local as well
as national celebrities, notable amongst a
few being, Sir D. M. Stevenson, Bart.,
Lord Strathclyde, Mr. Philip E. Halstead,
Sir Robert Murry, and the accompanying
illustration of R. D. Waddell, Esq. 0
E. A. T.
MANCHESTER—Every work of art is
an experiment, a bringing of the wits
to bear on the task of fighting the crassness
or intractability of the medium, for no
medium is without its own native wicked-
ness. 0 0 0 0 0 0
Traditional recipes for dealing with
technical difficulties are like social con-
ventions—good servants but poor masters
—and the moment comes, in every
artistic attempt, when nothing but sheer
invention will bring the mental vision
into a concrete and visible form.0 0
BY J. B. ANDERSON
BOOK-REST IN OAK. EMBROI-
DERY BY CONSTANCE ARMFIELD
(New Forest Group)
district, their own work will improve
and thrive on a much healthier basis
than if they unite to exhibit unrelated
work for personal ends alone. 0 a
Constance Smedley
(Organising Secretary),
LASGOW.—Amongst the younger
j- portrait painters in Glasgow, Mr.
J. B. Anderson takes a prominent place.
Several years ago he fully manifested the
advent of that position by an exhibition
of his work, unique in it being one entirely
composed of portraits, each one revealing
his interpretative power and ability to
embody in it the character of his sitter.
Though he has made Glasgow his home,
his native city of- Edinburgh Art School
must claim the first two years of his study,
from which he passed to four years'
tuition under George Harcourt, A.R.A.,
in the Allan Fraser Art College, Arbroath.
But like many another enthusiast, the
call of Paris enticed him, and he enrolled
his name in the Academie Julien, where
he further studied under the guidance of
J. P. Laurens, and in 1910 opened his
first studio in Glasgow to devote himself
principally to portraiture. The life of a
portrait painter is perhaps not one entirely
composed of emotional joy in his work,
184
at least the desires of certain subjects as
well as the subject do not always tend to
inspire it. But in that respect Mr.
Anderson has been one of the fortunate,
as I do not think he could mention any
instance in which he has wished to throw
down his brushes for want of enthusiasm
in his sitters ; and his work includes
attractive portraits of many local as well
as national celebrities, notable amongst a
few being, Sir D. M. Stevenson, Bart.,
Lord Strathclyde, Mr. Philip E. Halstead,
Sir Robert Murry, and the accompanying
illustration of R. D. Waddell, Esq. 0
E. A. T.
MANCHESTER—Every work of art is
an experiment, a bringing of the wits
to bear on the task of fighting the crassness
or intractability of the medium, for no
medium is without its own native wicked-
ness. 0 0 0 0 0 0
Traditional recipes for dealing with
technical difficulties are like social con-
ventions—good servants but poor masters
—and the moment comes, in every
artistic attempt, when nothing but sheer
invention will bring the mental vision
into a concrete and visible form.0 0
BY J. B. ANDERSON