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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1930 PAGE FIVE Art Consciousness Aroused in Canada by National Gallery ART CONSCIOUSNESS More Than 150 Paintings at Exhibition -- Paintings, Drawings, Woodblocks, Etching and Sculpture Ex- hibited. (Written for The Canadian Press by Teh > Bietry Sali g .« Toronto, Ont., Feb. 18.--~More than 150 paintings are being exhibited this month at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa. In two small rooms adjoining those in which the pictures are hung, a group of draw- ings, etchings, wood blocks and a few pieces of sculpture have been assembled. This work is presented as the Fifthy Annual Exhibition of Canadian art. It is there to testify to the fact that something of great significance in the history of a fast awakening Can is now taking place. 2 : Due to the discrimination of Eric Brown, Director of the Nation- al Gallery, and of his assistant H. O. McCurry, the collection of art work which has been assembled by them from local exhibitions of recognized institutions or societies, in various parts of the country, is at once pro- vocative, representative and of a creative nature, The strictly academic pictures by E. Wyly Grier, G. A. Reid and a few lesser artists, make in this exhibition the usual impression of the already seen and often repeated . common- places. Between this type of work, which is inevitable in an exhibition that covers as much ground as this Annual does, and the very alive Can- adian art expressions which well war- rant our confidence in the future of a national art in this country, there J -------- CALMONT OILS, LIMITED An important factor in relation to Cal- mont Oils activity in Turner Valley and the Company's holdings in other fields, is that development is only un- dertaken after the area has been de- finitely proven. Watch for In Turner Announcement to Registered Shareholders. 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HARE 8 Bond Street East, Oshawa ~ 20, will answer the door of the are many pictures which are not com- pletely satisfying as complete achieve- ments in themselves, but are inter- esting indications of new direetions in this native art called Canadian. In this category fall the many figure compositions contributed by painters who are only beginning to work from models and who are trying to for- sake for a moment, the forms of na- ture for those of the female figure. "Sleeping Women," by R. S.. Hew- ton, a very ostentatious nude lying on a sofa against a decorative back- ground of brown and green pillows and draperies is in itself nothing but one of the many nudes painted every year everywhere. In relation to what has been done so far by figure paint- ers throughout the country it repre- sents an effort to 'break away from the conventional, to solidly build a human figure and not to be content with a flat chromo-like portrait of it. It is in that sense too that one will look with interest at "Spring Girl by Vera O., Weatherkie of Vancou- ver, who is, we are told, a student of F. H. Varley, one of the original members of the group of seven who has now established his quarters in British Columbia whereé his influence (for better or worse) but unques- tionably very vitally at work, is being felt in some of the contributions from the West Coast. For completeness in achievement and for a purely Canadian inspira- tion, in figure composition, one must turn to the province of Quebec where a most powerful painter, para- doxical to note, a fragile and timid woman, Prudence Heward, is at work. A French Canadian critic Jean Chauvin reviewing recently the exhibition of paintings of the 5Ist annual Royal Canadian Academy held at the Montreal Art Associa- tion summed up "At the Theatre," a picture by Miss Heward that is now included in the National Gallery exhibition, in these words: "A solid technique imagination, intelligence, sensibility." In the class of "Ro- lande," another picture by the same artist which represents a Canadian girl standing against a background of farm houses and, in the far distance, a landscape of rolling hills, Prudence Heward has gone still further than in her previous work. "In a striking bold manner she has eliminated all non-essentials in her composition, in her design and in her | color scheme. With a pleasant-like vigor and freshness of conception | and phrasing, if one may $0, | with a distinction that can only be arrived at by a born artist she has stated the whole formula, the whole definition of Canadian art. This art, as we sce it, is inspired by a vivid local color, both in native types and in the scenery, by a temperament that has the characteristics of youth in its healthful imagination and frank straightforwardness. Trying to define it we would say that it 1s a crystallization of the stronger traits and more spiritual aspirations of the Canadian people. In the figurework another painter who graces this exhibition is Edward H. Holgate with his "Paul Trapper," a penerating, however, simple por- trayal, giving us an insight into the | psychology and mental turn of mind of this man by the mere design, or the background, of a crucifix Charles Comfort, who 1s represent- ed by a graphic and supernervous | portrait of "The late Will O. Sta- ples," done in light brown on a neu- tral background; Pego Nichol with her presentation .of her {friend artist "Marion Scott," whose head domin- ates a vigorous landscape, Charles MacGregor with a more conver but solid and honest paigting describ- ing Charles G. D. Roberts, M Al LL.D, and Kenneth Forbes h "Portrait of my Wife," : v promises, or partial achievements in gure composition, In landscape painting the artists whose work was selected for this ex- | hibition rival in strong color, in a fine sense of design and in a harmo- nious conception of decorative val- ues. With the alive Canadian paint- ers who sign their pictures A. Y. Jackson, Emily Carr, Albert H. Rob- inson, Clarence A. Gagnon, H. Ma- bel May, Yvonne McKague or even Kathleen M. Morris, we are far in- deed, from the spohisticated modern painters of landscape of the French or German schools of the day, or even from American modernism, We are equally far from the romanti- cism of Turner, from the subtleties of Bonington, from the dawn, sun- set and moon, light effects of Corot or brown velvety earthy tones of Constable, Look at the picture of the "Laurentian Hills" by Jackson, with his humorous crooked telegraph poles, its half broken and fallen fences and its heavily furrowed trail in the snow in which a sleigh is seen climbing towards hills that are as fanciful, in their appearance, as the rest of the scenery and try to find anything anywhere, either in the painting of the past or of today that will be of such a nature you will be say IC nal LT.-COL. HENRY W. BOWIE Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Commons, is the functionary who when purliament opens February green chamber when Black Rod knocks to announce that the gov. ernor-gencral desires the attend- ance of the Commoners in the Senate. an important part the standpoint « [ to look at, reg yesterday eral's department and it was under- bunch of roses for my wife. much will they cost? lence of the quarrel, 7 James Rennie ran fifteen years ago, When from home away ( the stage. He ambition and has returned to his justified in saying "That is where nel found his motif, his inspiration. | There not a breath, a. st , in}w that canvas, that is not all Ca native and like a nd nature the artist himself. Much the true ot the work. by ¢ others this magnificent pleiac new intei preters ot new country, Outside of t direct mfluence of the Canadian la on Canadian | Art, one is interested to note in this | exhibition, that the art and folklo of the Indians of the West Coast play | in the inspiration 1g of the is toc is | in seC Sane IK dscape fe which is at the most | important | in that | appears to be portant artists Columbia, ated by section. Emily one of the most . 10 dwell in British tributes an "I n Church" and a study of totem pole that are greatly characteristic that tendency. Then there 1s the nu ed by Lawren Harris call abstract, others ¢ ers symbolical and which can be, a times, a combination of three the case of "The Legend of Ii by Irene Hoffar, and "Solitude, Lowrie Warrener. Abstract and de corative elements without bolical intentions are the feature « the "North Shore, Lake Superior," picture by Harris, which de literal title is not a landscape bu a composition in which the painter has merely tried to combine form designed in colors that would ma the most satisfying unit 1 from | f something titul | what it may | yvement head which lecorati lecorative, « any syn ye ardless of mean or represent, | In a class by themselves should be | placed L. 1. Fitzgerald and Arthur Lismer. The former has in this ex- hibition a painting of * which botanists may which poéts will love ar a new expression and a new pretation of trees. In this pictur the artist has bined the 'minut skill of a miniaturist and the the other ,with hiss trgGwSHRDLL fantasy of a rebel against the con- ventional and the banal. Lismer, on the other, with his strange picture of a wild looking 'tree surging irom tormented forms of rock and its head lit up by a glorious light in a pure sky that is making its appear- ance from under a crown of curious- ly shaped clouds, represents one of the extreme forms of expressionism, as we find it in Canada, not a some- what morbid or freakish expression- ism as is often the case in Europe In the section of sculpture, only Emanuel Hahn seems to have step- ped out of mere academic formulac to take his own decided direction. His glorified head of Beethoven and the portrait of the explorer Stefan- sson, although we could hardly de- tect what is Canadian in them, are pure, operative expressions, and a fine contribution to the exhibition. Among the other exhibitors there are Frances Loring, Florence Wylie and R. Tait McKenzie, who respectively contribute work that is either pleas- ing or interesting with degrees. INVESTIGATION OF WINDSOR BROKERS Officials of Attorney-Gen- eral's Department Will Make Audit (By Canadian Press Leased Wire) Toronto, Feb. 19.--~Two repre- sentatives of the attorney-general's department left for Windsor to investigate and audit the books of the non-members brokers of the border cities. Col, W. W., Denison, registrar of companies and brokers and Norman Harris, special inves- tigator, the same two men who re- cently checked up on the Ottawa brokers, will conduct the investi- gation, It was said here last night that no complaints from Windsor had been received by the attorney-gen- inter- con bold stood that the check up will be purely routine and in-keeping with the general policy of the depart- ment, Mr. Justwed--I want to get a nice How The Florist--I can tell better if you'll describe the nature and vio- home dence? | istrate he states, The ma most dition, "The he akness, town, he | cesses on the stage and in movies | had but one ambition--success on | as leading man in "Gala has achieved that | Mr. Rennie's crowning success, n inc before was a stranger in the vill: Toronto, .after .suc- Night. | known as the fact that he we the {ignant that dian, | suffer the humibation of hi constable seem about all the facts c« sneered so bold to point ou why ow-officer "There "Excuse 15 C | tioned in the village," sharply, me, doesn't h to corroborate passing "How "Ol nly one cons but I INFORMATION The Northern Electric Company manus factures the telephone and-its 'accessories, wires and cables for the transmission of power, and electrical equipment for in dustrial purposes; and also distributes many electrical appliances indispen- sable to modern housekeeping. oh | Gish of movie fame. 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