DOI issue:
No. 392 (November 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0322
SHREWSBURY—EDINBURGH
" LA PLACE,ST. TROPEZ "
BY E. M. D Y A S
SHREWSBURY—It is interesting to
find work here of such character as
that shown last September. And it is a
pity that this busy county town has not
a municipal gallery. Particularly happy
are two paintings of Provence by E. M.
Dyas which have recently been seen in the
exhibitions of the Birmingham Royal
Society of Artists and the Royal Cambrian
Academy. Arthur Netherwood, R.C.A.,
the well-known Yorkshire artist whose
work has been hung in most of our public
galleries and several continental ones,
showed water-colour drawings of the
Mediterranean Coast. Huddersfield Cor-
poration have this year purchased a second
example of his work for their municipal
gallery. a a 0 a a
EDINBURGH.—If struggle, enthusi-
asm and perseverance against worldly
odds, are necessary qualifications for the
making of an artist, then William Mac-
donald has had a fair share of the first and
an inheritance of the other two. For
those who knew his artist father speak of
him as one heroic in all his endeavours to
make life smooth for those most near to
him. That his son has been encouraged
with much of his father's undaunted
spirit will be evident to any who may have
watched his artistic career. To attain it,
photo-engraving claimed his attention,
the gainful results of which enabled him
to achieve his desire of studying in Paris,
as well as to see all that was possible of the
work of Rembrandt. On the continent,
316
where Spain more than any of the other
countries most strongly attracted him, it
was in Madrid that much of his time was
spent, studying and copying in the gal-
leries during the day and employed on a
daily newspaper at night. Finally he
wended his way back to Scotland, like
many another, in good time to shoulder a
gun in France. Of his pictures, those
dealing with his sojourn in Spain,
similar to his Pie del Palo, Grazalema,
here illustrated, are perhaps amongst the
most notable, a a * a a
Those who remember their impression
of The Edinburgh Cafe in Princes Street
several years ago, and revisit it to-day will
fully realise how the commonplace can be
recreated enticingly uncommon when
imbued with the spirited design and re-
arrangement by an artist like Mr. Robert
Burns, whose thought throughout has
been one of beauty united to utility, mak-
ing one's time spent there amidst the sur-
roundings of refinement and fitness, two-
fold in pleasurable satisfaction. The
accompanying illustration is from one of
the wall tempera panels, another comple-
mentary to it having been illustrated in
The Studio for September, 1924. a
E.A.T.
" PIE DEL PALO, GRAZALEMA "
BY WILLIAM MACDONALD
" LA PLACE,ST. TROPEZ "
BY E. M. D Y A S
SHREWSBURY—It is interesting to
find work here of such character as
that shown last September. And it is a
pity that this busy county town has not
a municipal gallery. Particularly happy
are two paintings of Provence by E. M.
Dyas which have recently been seen in the
exhibitions of the Birmingham Royal
Society of Artists and the Royal Cambrian
Academy. Arthur Netherwood, R.C.A.,
the well-known Yorkshire artist whose
work has been hung in most of our public
galleries and several continental ones,
showed water-colour drawings of the
Mediterranean Coast. Huddersfield Cor-
poration have this year purchased a second
example of his work for their municipal
gallery. a a 0 a a
EDINBURGH.—If struggle, enthusi-
asm and perseverance against worldly
odds, are necessary qualifications for the
making of an artist, then William Mac-
donald has had a fair share of the first and
an inheritance of the other two. For
those who knew his artist father speak of
him as one heroic in all his endeavours to
make life smooth for those most near to
him. That his son has been encouraged
with much of his father's undaunted
spirit will be evident to any who may have
watched his artistic career. To attain it,
photo-engraving claimed his attention,
the gainful results of which enabled him
to achieve his desire of studying in Paris,
as well as to see all that was possible of the
work of Rembrandt. On the continent,
316
where Spain more than any of the other
countries most strongly attracted him, it
was in Madrid that much of his time was
spent, studying and copying in the gal-
leries during the day and employed on a
daily newspaper at night. Finally he
wended his way back to Scotland, like
many another, in good time to shoulder a
gun in France. Of his pictures, those
dealing with his sojourn in Spain,
similar to his Pie del Palo, Grazalema,
here illustrated, are perhaps amongst the
most notable, a a * a a
Those who remember their impression
of The Edinburgh Cafe in Princes Street
several years ago, and revisit it to-day will
fully realise how the commonplace can be
recreated enticingly uncommon when
imbued with the spirited design and re-
arrangement by an artist like Mr. Robert
Burns, whose thought throughout has
been one of beauty united to utility, mak-
ing one's time spent there amidst the sur-
roundings of refinement and fitness, two-
fold in pleasurable satisfaction. The
accompanying illustration is from one of
the wall tempera panels, another comple-
mentary to it having been illustrated in
The Studio for September, 1924. a
E.A.T.
" PIE DEL PALO, GRAZALEMA "
BY WILLIAM MACDONALD