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Newspaper cutting from the Eastern Daily Press, 8 Jan: 1931, continued. Obituary of E. H. New.
Newspaper article Pictures at the Castle from the Daily Press Jan:8. 1931. continued.
Date: 1930-31
Transcription
Cotman's simple, broad treatment of his
subjects and his portrayal of light should
have been a revelation to the people of his
time, but instead his work was looked at
askance except by a few appreciative art
patrons such as Dawson, Turner, and the
Cholmeleys. Yet it can hardly be wondered
at, for here was a man painting pictures
which were directly opposed to all the
observed canons of artistic taste—pictures
with no composition in the generally
accepted sense of the term in that day, no
nicely balanced trees or buildings, no
apparent centre on which to focus the eye.
no form, just simple scenes, depicted in the
broadest possible manner, with the colours
splashed in with a certain amount of artistic
licence. It is small wonder that Cotman
found little appreciation of his work in his
own age, and is not the present age equally
lacking in understanding of much of the
art of to-day?
From the Eastern Daily Press.
Jan: 8. 1931.
MR. E. H. NEW
DRAWINGS OF OXFORD
COLLEGES
Mr. Edmund Hort New, of 17,
Worcester-place, Oxford, died on Tuesday
at a nursing home in his sixtieth year.
Though he had a wider range, being known
as a writer and lecturer on art and architecture and as a general illustrator and designer
of book plates, it is by his "New Loggan"
drawings of Oxford Colleges that New will
be most gratefully remembered. Seldom has
there been an artist better equipped for a
special subject. To a comprehensive and intimate knowledge of architecture he added a
style of drawing that was perfectly adapted,
not only to realize the general forms of buildings, but also to bring out the interest of
surface and texture. He drew detail, naturalistic as well as architectural, with the greatest
economy, having a natural gift for seeing "the
way things go" He gave the impression of
loving every stone that he drew. His decorative sense was highly developed, and he showed
the greatest ingenuity in turning heraldic
emblems and lettering into ornaments that
formed part of the general design. For his
series of Oxford Colleges, most of which have
been engraved by Mr. Emery Walker, he
adopted the old convention of the bird's-eye
view, showing plan and elevation together,
and the results have great documentary value.
Artistically they set a supremely good standard
for architectural drawing.
New was born at Evesham in 1871, being
the son of a solicitor. He studied art at the
Birmingham School of Art, and for a time was
on the teaching staff of that institution. He
exhibited at the Royal Academy and the
Society of Arts and Crafts, and illustrated
many books, including several in the "Byways"
series of English counties. Exhibitions of his
work were held at the Roval Institute of
British Architects in 1924 and at the house of
Lady Hylton. in Manchester-square, in 1925.
Oxford gave him the bon. degree of M.A., and
he was also an honorary associate of the Royal
Institute of British Architects.
'The Times'
Feb: 5. 1931.