LANDSCAPE ART IN SOUTH AFRICA 



to reproduce the gorgeous opalescent hues so typical of the country ; and 

 a charcoal drawing of trees shows happily her efforts in this direction 

 (p. 140). 



Gordon Pilkington, who is a born South African, is by profession an 

 architect, and as he has never exhibited his work is only known to a 

 comparatively small circle of connoisseurs. By them, however, his water- 

 colours are highly rated, and no list of South African painters could be 

 complete without his name. His great merit lies in his draughtsman- 

 ship and his clever treatment of colour, which latter, however, may 

 sometimes be rather forced. We give here in colours an example of his 

 work(p. 1 33) a funeral scene in the Malay quarter of Cape Town. (The 

 apparent gaiety of such a scene is in strong contrast to our western ideas.) 

 Miss Ruth Prowse was also born in South Africa, and after receiving 

 her art education at the Slade School she returned to this country, and 

 has devoted her talents to a decidedly modern and somewhat impres- 

 sionistic study of the town and country life of Cape Colony. Her fresh, 

 cool colouring and freedom of handling cause her work to stand out re- 

 markably in the various exhibitions in which it appears. She has an 

 individual style, and her chief characteristics are well exemplified in the 

 illustration we are able to give of a ploughing scene in the uplands of 

 the Paarl district (p. 135). Miss Allerley Glossop is an English lady who 

 has long resided in the Colony and has mingled farming with painting ; 

 her oils of typical South African landscapes are frequently enlivened by 

 animal figures, as will be seen in the two examples here reproduced (pp. 

 143 and 144). J. S. Morland is the doyen of South African painters and 

 has lived here for about forty years. His work is in sympathy with the 

 old school of landscape artists, of whose theories he is a sound and 

 sincere exponent. It has only been possible to secure one example ot 

 his work, and this is a rendering in water-colours of the mountains of 

 the Cape Peninsula (p. 127). 



McCulloch Robertson is a water-colour artist whose work is frequently 

 seen in London exhibitions. He claims attention by the pleasing and 

 accomplished handling of his themes. The example given here (p. 1 43) 

 is a view of a Malay tomb nearCapeTown, with the Lion's Head in the 

 background. 



Sydney Taylor is a gifted amateur who, in the intervals of a busy pro- 

 fessional lire, succeeds in indulging his hobby with energy and distinc- 

 tion. Oil and pastel are his chief mediums, and the glimpse of life in 

 Basutoland (p. 144) is a good instance of his work in the former. 

 Mrs. Penstone-Robinson, whose Old Farm, Stellenbosch, and Simonsberg 

 are reproduced on pp. 131 and 132, has long been one of our leading 

 water-colourists, and her landscapes are graceful and not without force. 

 I may now, perhaps, be permitted to speak of my own work, as I am the 

 only remaining artist whose paintings we are able to illustrate ; but for 

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