Word: draughtsmanship
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Speicher. Poles apart are Joan Miro and Eugene Speicher who last week gave his first exhibition in five years at Manhattan's Rehn Galleries. With his feet firmly on the ancient tradition of graphic arts, Artist Speicher has grown firmer in his draughtsmanship, more sure of what he wants to say with each passing year. In 1929 he seemed an able, uninspired follower of the late great George Wesley Bellows, without the latter's vivid interest in living problems. In 1934, as in 1929, Eugene Speicher remains wrapped in the penciled brows of his statuesque beauties, though technically...
...discovered many interesting things about the artist which were never adapted to his more detailed studies. And so in this work he has limited himself to a few seemingly unconnected topics, Rembrandt's Academy and the work of his followers, his treatment of portraits and landscape painting, his draughtsmanship, and his genius...
...painter Marcel Mouillot's color is almost as brilliant, his draughtsmanship almost as good as the meticulous Pierre Roy, but his subjects are different-not bits of ribbon, seashells or birds' eggs. He paints ships, omitting rigging and portholes, paring the hulls down to essential forms. He does landscapes of jagged tropical mountain ranges, coral-robed natives under tattered banana fronds, and the steel grey lattice work of cranes against a smoky sky. One of his most effective canvases, Trois Mats le Jeanne d'Arc, shows the trim white hull of the Joan of Arc moored...
...charming by the possession of some perennial secret; and there was the picture of an Indian in his canoe on a dark river, who stared through a subaqueous gloom of trees at a bird, moving above him on white, tremendous wings. In all these canvases was the sure, lucid draughtsmanship which is Painter Brush's most notable talent and which explains, more than any other characteristic, the presence of his paintings in five important U. S. museums...
...publicity. Not since 1909 has his photograph appeared in U.S. public prints. Hardly a soul among his admirers knows that he began life 59 years ago as the son a business-like London gentleman who set him to work in an insurance office. Or that now, having perfected his draughtsmanship until it is a byword, he lives amid Sussex downs with a wife who also draws, in a cottage of crazy-quilt architecture, under an old beech, an elm, and near a business-like workroom devoid of all "arty" furnishings. Sitting at his drawing board with his round, glittering spectacles...