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THE ART 7
AMATEUR._
"
and with en evi ually,
or rather sentimentally, to a degree unknown in the foreground, a billowy field stretching behind
yellow, stockings
yellow lavishly
to real rustic life. Knight's are not them to a sunset The other is a late sunset
dence," vending catalogues ! exactly drawing sky.
For a pleasanter theme let us turn to the nearly six room misses transferred to the fields, not hot-house scene with two little English peasant girls sitting
hundred water-color at the Dudley Gallery.
and not field flowers, but rather pretty garden
yet with their backs to the light,upon the brink of the
drawings
" water see their own Mr.
The Dudley Art Society" is the name taken flowers, out of place among rough clods and in which they figures.
Gallery quite
to imitate the late
by that portion of the old Dudley Society which re where toil is heavy and the blast may blow keen. Weatherbee is often said by critics
refines his peasants Mason in those and
mains in the Egyptian Hall, while the rest have be Jules Breton spiritually, but leaves George peculiar atmospheric
-shadow effects which
taken themselves else
Mason so lovingly
where. The change in
the has cer- *
sought in the dying
society
although he him
tainly, for one of its day,
a marked i self declares that he
first results, c
never saw a Mason
in the V;-.v
improvement
*:y until after the
general quality of the *
long
critics had begun to
exhibition, even al- f
call his own pictures
though the superficial .^jjL
imitations. He is par
aspect remains much ^
the same. It seems ticularly fond of pink
impossible for London w^T glancing lights on
bodies otherwise in
exhibitions to throw off 7*
their habitual brown shadow (the tops
expres-
in which of the sun-bonnets of
sion, long,
in the little reflected rus
lank, lithe maidens,
tics are rosy while the
aesthetic raiment, reach- [\
to fruit-laden faces are brown;, and
ing up f.*\'?^
or carrying bur- finds, as he says, a
boughs "gr/^
dens of asphodel more subtle and deli
against
cate in the
sage green tapestry like J..1\hk\ poetry
and dead ^ vagueness of the deep
backgrounds,
maidens with half open- )e ening twilight than in
ed mouths a la Rossetti ^!;,
the fullbrilliancy of the
and day. His style is large
t ,his post-mortem
have such and free, and his aim
Beatrices, *&~*Zt
important parts, and A-O evidently poetic sug
. this firstexhibition of gestion rather than
Only two of
our compatriots appear upon the Dud them the coarse-footed, brawny-armed, heavy beings SKETCHING FROM NATURE IN OIL,
under the new the old familiars nature them, while Knight's rustics might wear
ley walls regime, shapes
?such as Mark Fisher, Bloomer and bottines No. 3, and would melt like waxen blossoms Sketching from nature in colors is an occupation
Hennessy,
no These two are W. under too hot a sun. The is both full of delight to the amateur, and invaluable to the
Helmick?sending pictures. workmanship
a of artis but the latter should
Magrath and Mrs. Howard the latter forcible and delicate, showing high culture professional artist; clearly
'' Campion,
Californian. Both these envois'' are of cabinet tic gifts. The most finish is lavished upon understand what he proposes to himself in its pursuit.
exquisite
size, and both Mr. face and hands, and the canvases are charming to While the amateur has, nine times out of ten, no
equally unpretending. Magrath's
"
is a landscape called- Sussex purpose in view beyond the