Certainly a week is too short a period for the public to get full advantage of the work so well done by the members and their committee under the presidency of Mr D. Ramsay, who we are pleased to note has recovered from the indisposition which laid him aside for too long a period.

Many of the pictures call for more than a passing glance, and, as a matter of fact, it needs several visits before such a show can be properly appreciated, and the merits of individual works stand out clearly from the mass.


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Although this is mainly a local exhibition of art there are several pictures which at once make their claim upon the attention of one on the lookout for artistic values.

For instance, Hugh Cameron’s canvas, * “The Cloch Shore,” and D. Ramsay’s “Valley of the Urt,” in both of which the sky is a dominant note.

In the first named picture there is a glamour of sunshine and blue water that holds the eye and the imagination, and in the other, a strong water-colour; there is the same sense of reality, but the effect is not so enlivening, the low tone of the landscape failing to respond to the lighting of the cumulus cloud masses.


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The situation of the two pictures makes this comparison in-evitable.

In other pictures Mr Ramsay comes nearer his best.

A bold, if somewhat sombre, note is struck by B. Turner in his “Ups and Downs of Greenock,” picturing the northern escarpment of the Lyle Road. An increase of freedom in his brush work is noticeable.

This story first appeared in the Greenock Telegraph on January 3, 1920.





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