The Glasgow School of painting Author:David Martin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOSEPH CRAWHALL, JUN. It was in keeping with the fitness of things artistic that the first exhibition of the collected works of Joseph Crawhall should be held... more » in Glasgow. For in this Art centre, especially on the part of those who support the new movement, much appreciation has been shown for his work. The chief characteristic of his style is a love for beautiful colour (a fine quality of grey often being the scheme adopted), combined with masterful technical accomplishment. Each tone is remarkable in its range and harmony, and each spot of colour, exquisitely laid down, has a distinct value in the picture. Again, it is evident that every wash of the brush reveals a whole world of analysis both in character and form. In even the smallest of his sketches, and which are apparently so slight in character, appear qualities of colour and decoration which mark the work as peculiarly interesting and noteworthy to an observer. Mr Crawhall has formed for himself a unique style which shows originality of artistic expression alike in composition and decorative effect. In it there is no trace of that " still-life " feeling too apparent in much of the water-colour work of to-day. It is full of vitality, showing at once the direction of his method and his ability to seize the dominant features of his subject and carry it through from beginning to end with perfect symmetry of style and character. As regards the particular phase or branch of pictorial art—the artistic record of animal life—with which Mr Crawhall has evinced most sympathy, he occupies a position equalled by few other living painters. Although most of this artist's work is in water- colours, he also expresses his impressions by means of pastel in a very capable and dexterous manner. Furthermore, he is very successful in...« less