HONGKONG ART CLUB. ANNUAL EXHIBITION.
THE HONGKONG DALLI PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER LATE 1920.
Hm, Britton's exhibits includa, several interesting / landscapes on the level of nisateur worki Mr.:C-H. Blason has made pleasant efforts in Deep Water and
SOME INTERESTING COLLECTIONS.Morning Sunshine. In two paintings
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UNITED SERVICES LEAGUE.
H.M.S. HAWKINS". H.M.S.
CARLISLE".
GOLF NOTES.
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Shanghai have issued their challenge and it has been accepted by Hongkong, so there will be an Inter-port match after of Hongkong, at night and at sunrise, Mrs. Jones
ail. The Hongkong Golf Club have sug Today the annual exhibition of the McPherson shows imagination and artistic
gested to Shanghai that they send their Hongkong Art Club will be opened to the merit. The impressions aro. rather These teams met on the Navy “B” team down during China New Year, so public, and it will measuredly interest silhouetly but the perspective and draw. ground. There were a number of sailors the contest will in all probability make the lovers of art in this community.ing are good. The technique of the pic among the spectators. The Carlisle won place about February 7th or 8th Hong- kong are the present holders of the Cup. Speaking broadly and frankly much of the tures as a whole is on a high plane, the toss and elected to play with the wind, known as the Shanghai Challenge Cup. work is amateurish or indifferent, while, Night from East Point, while a little To Haubing went away from the start, They won it at Shanghal, on the Klangwan on the other hand, there are galleries of stray in point of colouring, is good as and Flood was called upon la save from course, in 1913, when Tientsin also
excellent pictaren far above the level
an impressionis effort Another meritor Webb. The Carlisle cleared and transferred entered a team. In 1914 Shanghai sent a' team to Hongkong, to try and recover As of "the generality of amateurs.
fons contribution is a seascape by Misplay to the other and where McCarthy the Cup, but failed to do so. i Incidentally natural in an exhibition of amateur effort, P. C. Boven. The distance and fore tested Jones, who caught the ball and threw that was the first time it had been played stak colours predominate, and the works ground are executed with an artistic out, Edwards kicking to touch From the for over the Fanling course, and the last throw-in, Wilkins received and gent in a time Hongkong had been challenged for are of a higher standard than those
vigour, and wonracy that shew more than long shot that just skimmed the bar. The the possession of it, until this present recuted in oils. The decorative section
ordinary promise. Miss Phyllis Ackworth Carlisle got away, and Fawcett sent over challenge. Any recognised Club in the and the black and white section are rather exhibits a gallery of beautifully coloured and Wilkins, taking the kick, sent in wide holders. The conditions of play are as the top. Hands against Pavey relieved, Far East has, the right to challenge the landscapes in varied lights that leave & The Carlisia, came away from the goal kick follows-The team to consist of five sparsa, but the standard of efficiency is are uniform than in any section of the very pleasant impression. Her pictures and Brant sent in a long shot, which Jones: players, each to do 38 holes medal play exhibition. The arrangement of the groups have a clarity of definition and a warm tarned round the upright. The corner was the best three scores only for the 36
well placed by Fawcett, and ** McCarthy is rather erratic, and there is considerable
nows that make them well worth their place headed the ball, which struck the crossbar holes to count in the seeregate. rouble in following the works of the in the exhibition. V Wm Farmer's and bounced behind. The Hawking came Hongkon- 1914 team, only one member. The practice of group Scottish scenes are good amatear efforts, away and got well in, where off-side against Mr TV Hill is still with us, and he A respective artists.
bus only amateur. Mr. C. B. Brown's Webb relieved. The Crisle took the ball will lead the team, to victory we hope, on ing all tho works of each exhibitor in one collection shows nice perspective and fair to the other and, and Fawcett, seat in the next occasion. There should be keen gallery, in each sections would greatly add execution, though the colouring in the good shot from the left. the ball going rivalry for three of the five places in
behind.
Fawcets took the kick and, the team, which is a good thing. for to the comfort and pleasure of visitors.majority of them is crude very crude
Her painting of a scene in the Botanical assisted by the wind, kicked the ball almost our standard requires raising and keen At present the hanging has not followed Gardens, is, howevery first-class The light the width of the field where it rolled over rivalry is just the thing to raise it. the catalogue sufficiently clearly. Another and shade effects, the lawn and the colour the goal line. The rest of the game re point that exercises a rather depressing ing are fine. Altogether the picture is one solved itself into a hard tussle between the nience on the visitor in his preliminary of the most noticeable in the water-colour teams to draw first blood, bus balf time
arrived with no score. walk round, is the lack of understanding many -characterising the framing of
exhibits. There are not above two pictures in the whole exhibition framed to the best advantage. Taken ail round, the work is 1874 to be on a higher standard than that
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I see Willie Park has just written a book entirely devored to parting Prob ably there is no man better qualified to write on this particular department of the game, and no doubt there are hum- dreds of Golfers who would be only too
pleased to pay one guinea, the cost of
It is difficult to know where to commence The Carlisle went away with rush from on Mr. C. H. Cole's exhibits. From the the restart and McCarthy atat in, Edwards orthodox painter's viewpoint they would clearing. The Hawking assumed the offen. be regarded as monstrosities, but from the sive and, assisted by the wind, gave the fantastical or futurist standpoint they are Carlisle defence warm time. Stewart remarkable. On a broad artistic basis they sent in a nice centre, which the goalkeeper the book, "if only they could learn to putt are also highly interesting. The drawing, just missed. The goalkeeper, however, ran like the author: it would be remarkably design and imagination displayed by Mr. out for the ball. Harria beat him and cheap for some of us 1 For my own part, Cole show ability of a high order, but the returned the ball to Webb, who sent it into I do not believe that any man can make Go to any colouring is most aggressive, sharp, bump an empty goal, thereby opening the were another man a good putter.
"2 contrasty to superlative for the Hawkins: Following midfield play Professional Golfer and ask him how to degres.
Nevertheless there is decided the Carlisle broke away and McCarthy out and he will tell you; furthermore atmosphere about the pictures that makes sent in a hot one which the goalkeeper you will rake half a dozen balls on to thom unusually attractive. However, they punched out. Wilkins, in trying to clear the last green, and by following his ad- are subjects for individual taste rather than sant the ball over his head towards his own vice you will put admirably, but try who pushed it in the next medal competition and you undoubtedly good,
the ball-out to McCarthy Eended in again. Edwards kicked to touch.
Putting is a matter of temperament.
of last year........
WATER COLOURS. The wealth of contributions to this sectious and tion of the exhibition is perhaps explained by the fact that water colours are much more facile of accomplishment than oils,
-especially for amateurs. The premier piece for general criticism. Their execution is goal, which nearly beat done latter will put as badly as ever, t
is, unquestionably, V. A. Trambitzžky's
and
MAM OIL PAINTINGS.
to
From a break away" by the
The play as very fast and each goal was if it was not, then it would be impossible visited. Hawkins, Humphreys sent in a long drop to explain the failings, in this respect. plug shot which the goalkeeper misjudged. of that great exponent of the game, Harry The ball went over his head into the net. Verdon... The Hawkins kept up the pressure and, assisted by the wind, peared, the Carlisle
However, there is one book that af
Mandaria's Dress," and why it is tucked The collection of oil paintings is am away inconspicuously in the left-hand in comparison with the other sections of corner of the salon while many shocking the exhibition and, with a few exceptions; the efforte are not up to good amateur efforts--dare we say it !—are in good pos- standard Mr. C. W. M.Bion' tions is difficult to understand. Menyemalian Snowfield" is very far ahead datin' Dress is particularly striking on of anything else in this section. The men in their own half and forced several Golfers should read, The Rules and account of its wonderful toning, depth Pictura rests for its merit on the artistry corners. Hands against Barrett well in, etiquette of Golf There are still a of Mr. Bion rather than anything else. looked dangerous for the Carlisle, but number of people who have an idea taking the kick, sent straight to that the course belongs to them. Four- and detail, combined with a decisive touch The subject is dreary and the picture would
be carefully hung to be pleasant who cleared. Fawcett, then, came compares very favourably with popular Artistically it is on a very high plane. The and the spec had to be assisted off the players show a little more consideration" uniform cleanness of brushwork shaka. It is a brary picture really-away si, a good pace,bot Bussell tackled ball foursomes are becoming a nuisance winger, atombled over the Fanling, and I hear that unless some good buck's foot. professional work. The modelling of the colouring and toning is remarkably figne is also of high merit and the blend. The perspective, too, is wired and clean. Bold The Hawking returned and the for those behind them, some drastic bye
faws will be brought into force, whereby too, is very ine, consider. Carlisle, playing ten men, ing and perspectiva practically faultless in ing the colour. In the foreground three-Wilkins sent in, from thirty yards range, the innocent will suffer with the guilty the main group. The work just fails in tall trees and a patch of herbage are a very high abos, which beat the defence, Of course, there are occasions when it being pronounced excellent, because them with a charming precision that and Uyers following up breasted the ball is necessary for all four players to hole sankts them stand our a long way shove into the goal. The Hawking were still out on a green, but there are many more. the remainder of the picture, good as it is pressing when the whistle sounded for time when it is not necessary, and yet the With the sun at a difficult angle Mr Bion's leaving them winners by goals to mil. players who are out of the running for conception and execution of the highs and air. Thornton was the referee,
the hole carry on, and very often hold shade effects on the snow bears the ball-
w the players behind them by doing so, mark of ability that is shove the average.
HONGKONG LEAGUE,
One must not forget that in a four-ball At $300 the pictare is perhaps the best
match one is playing for the side, not value in- the exhibition. Chrysanthemum
DIVISION I
for an individual score. It is the duty (No. 78) and Bunset; Gulf of Suez (No.
·Goals.....
of a player who is out of the running to PAWD JAP pick up his ball:: 7502 120 18
artist, for sums obscure reason, has -duced a secondary piece into the canvas in the shape of the picture of an angle The plain light ochre background of the walls would have been charming without the introduction of the eagle in black, out
the same artist are almost equally
·CLUB.
of perspective with everything else Is You done. Their fault if it can be 30 R.GA gives a nasty, sharp, contrast and roughly done. One likes a severe, perhaps ascetic, view of this picture and criticines it on a level with first clase professional Work da its execution and merit place it on a much higher plane than any other showing
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called-low in faulty colouring. Wiltshires 6 111389 The Deep Water Bay course has beca
The large gallery of Lieut. Colonel W. Hongkong Club Loring shows ability in a marked degree howloon for seascape painting. His execution of H.MS. Tamar deling waves in two or three instances are Hongkong Falice 6 delightful After the Storm (No. 42) B. 6 sen breaking over a rock H.M.S. Ambrose &
water colour in the collection. Another what come within an ace H.M.S. L'article, 30
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Mr. Bion's newfeld. The wa
22 638 improved recently, as far as the second
978 34019 118 and fourth holes are concerned. At the 1 3 283 former hole the scrub on the hillside on the right of the hole has been cleared 1 324 014 131 49 3 away also a bunker has been erected along the pathway on the left of the green, malaman mo prevent balls: trickling over into the stream. The scrub has been cut away
improvements and be
tha
are, area re venerity of the patrons of from the front of the fourth tee. These
delightful exhibit. The pen work in her the course. There is still one hole to drawings is exquisitely, fine and well done be improved and that is, the 8th. Whe Her figures are perhaps a little too stiff and hard, but the decorative addends, the ever is responsible for placing the hole modelling of robes and trappings work of a first-class artist. Her pictures the tee on the left of the teeing ground and the tee has a bad habit of placing. are charming, and it is regrettable the there when the hole is on the left of the green, are not more of them fre. McPherson's making it almost impossible to play, a black and whites of Taikoo Docks and the correct shot direct for the hole. It would workshops are interesting and well drawn be a great improvement if certain bran- She has a nice determined line and a fine ches of a tree overhanging the left of the acuse of proportion...
tes were cut down, and also if the trees Fuarding the green had a little 'taken of the top. In other respects the course, is
GATEDORATIVE ART. ***
found well, worth a visit.
There are
pic nicely done by the same artist, is a toning, gradation, depth and colouring drawing-room table littered with bright the general technique and faithfulness of colored clothing The colouring, and il sony lock zion. Mrs. G-N- Hasiphreys and has in the pictors are excellent. It is only the lack His groups are an ornament to the exhibi toning are very good and the modelling fessional standard. The seascapes, or the perfect Among the remaining exhibits of raffled oas, whenever they appear in the pictures are excellently done, but, to be this artist, which are all good, "Sunshine quite candid, when he strives for artistic the most interesting Mandarin effe high merit of this work muishes Dress" is well worth the $150 it is quoted under the jarring, ellest of the embelish ments Let us pick the Storm Maidens The next collection in this section that to pieces. In the first instance, the impres arrests attention is that of Miss Burakiva.sion from the sky is that we are looking out on a winter's day, but the next instant Among her 21 exhibits there is infinito a bright summery sea conveys a contradic Varity. Gonerally the drawing is faulty. The conception, therefore, thows a complete. In this section Mrs McPherson's figures about 15 2000, as can be expected with
tion. The effect is straightaway spoiled. and there is a slight tendey to a disregard for the first essential of artistic are the chief attraction. In fantastic light is some of the landscapes, but the work effect-faithfulness Then the waves are effects the impressions she conveys, while the limited amount of ground at the dis shows, perhaps, more promise than anything disfigured by the inclusion of three nudes unmistakeably of the Joses Bebool, age posal of the Commitee
One little effort which are crude, ill drawn, expressionless in the exhibition.
Hoe I have been asked to give an opinion « Reflection '* (No. 158)-whl, lacking in the man. Another such attempt hy very plansing and splendidly drawo.
artist is Hesitation. Many modeling of gowns, however, shows a great definition in the mid-foreground, is de who view the exhibition will remember the deal of room for improvement The on the choice of new clubs,
exhibits of Mr. Cole, Mrs. Humphries, three principal factors in my mind which lightfully conceived and coloured The originat "Hesitation? Therefore we will Mr Ian MacNair and Mrs. Britton in a player should look to. First of all, the
anything more about Colonel tering is deft and the depth most accurate. Loring Hesitation other than that the
this section are all attractive and will be "weight of the club. It is most import:
ant to have clubs that one can wield The subject would be a most difficult task art exhibition is no place for it. It
easily and as the left hand is the one even for a professional, and if faalte guilty of almost every fault in the artistic
calendary"‘Another example is "Becalmed" Among the portrait groups the work of that plays the most important part in all existed, to any extent the picture would be (No. 28). The seascape is good again, the Mas Burskiva showed the most merit shots, it is as well to pick up the new clouds are good, but the picture is disfigured Her line is bold and well defined and her club and swing it with this hand only, offensive. It is, so simple to make faults by j
"junk with well-alled (though i proportion good. She hna, also a decided to begin with. If it feels comfortabic, in producing a reflection with perspective drawn) sails and a deformed stern partie talons for expression and a simplicity of the next thing to do is to take it with and setting all awry, and the task of cularly on the right-hand corner. execution that reminds que very much of both hands and address an imaginary bali,
Squally Day! (No. 28) corrects many mis Reemakers. Mrs. Wyndham's portraits with one's natural stance, the object being, supplying sufficient tone gradation to con- takas made in other pittures by Colonel after a comparison. The gallery of to find out if the lie of the club is suit
the impression of a mirror, that the Loring It is well designed and coloured portraits is unfortunately small
able, that is when the club is resting really high-grade picture of Miss Burakiva and an & live-tone effort is very good..
on the ground behind the ball, the sole Mr. Wyndham's contributions to the oil ven with its faults--is an indication of colours has one solitary bright spot-a
A number of figures and busts modelled the club is lying flat, both nose and remarkable talent. Her turk vas medd all little interior (No. 66)". It is well done in
in clay
by Mr. Eauchecarne are the only heel, touching the ground. Having satis the more difficult in her selection of colour a general way, but beyond a very alco exbibits, but they are so excellently done fied oneself that the weight and lie are
toning of the colours hag nothing special that the absence of others is not noticed. correct the shaft is the next considera that gave very little contrit to the roses to commend it. There are some pictures While the expresion and modelling of the tion. First of all it is as well to see-that in the central group. The background is in the section of the exhibition which dis beads and hands and practically every the shaft is not warned, then to see that fine. Another delightful effort by the same Agure the walls, and others that are fat part that bears any mark of having it is not too whippy. A good shaft and not very well done, but on the whole the occupied the attention of the sculptor for should be suff without being, wooden." sartist is (No. 169) "An Interior" The oil paintings show average ability and are any time, are perfect, Mr. Bauchecorne A player who hits hard should avoid a
subject here is simpler has the light effects worth i inspection,
zeems to have rushed the figures off. There shalt with a lot of whip" in it, other is a lifelike. atmosphere and delicacywise the wrist will come through beföra proditced on heavy contrarie, the modeling BLACK AND WHITE
about this work which combined with his the club head and a slice will result. hrough
wish stamp the artist exceptionally There are other matters to consider, but and the percolation of sunshine
gifted.
these must be left to the Individual, for a club that suits one man does not neces--
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MINIATURES,
The black and white, work is on a high Ingel, Admirable work is presented by Mr. G. Hauchecorne in sepia wash His draw ings are beautifully designed and hand. A cabinet of miniatures by Mme. de sarily surt mother. posle nabed, and he shows wealth of on
me and detail and imagination, such an accurate Miss Bingham has also, supplied nice regret that last week through an perspective and expression, so much depth collection and atmosphere that his work stamps itsel
oversight one of the matches for the immediately as far above amateur status exhibits and a visit to the gallery today omilied that being: Linstead and Davies Altogether there are more than 300 third round, of the Governor's Shield, was (Continued as foot of nest avlumn,)-- will be well repaid....
• HMS Tamar.
the curtains are very advan
the same note of decision, the wel ng and fun utilisation of all. her disposal in all of her var that stamps "this lady's: commendable. The immediate task be to improve hat drawing a litals:
efforta highly should
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