Title

Art. By Harold Herbert. Colour Prints and Etchings.

Author

Herbert, Harold.

Source

Australasian.

Details

10 December 1932, page 19

Publication date

10 December 1932

Type

Exhibition review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

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Art. By Harold Herbert. Colour Prints and Etchings.

It is always with a feeling of intense satisfaction that one views an exhibition in which practically all the works are good. This is the case in a joint show by Miss Dorothy Lungley, of South Australia, and Mr. Allan Jordan, which is being held at Everyman's Library, 332 Collins street, Melbourne. Both of these artists exhibit striking originality, a fine sense of design and colour, and sound ability as far as drawing and the expression of form are concerned.

Miss Lungley is rather more influenced by Japanese traditions than Mr. Jordan, but it is not a bad fault. They are the purest traditions, and are too often lost sight of. She has managed to achieve an amazing enamel-like quality of colour in some studies of kingfishers. "The Sentinel," a study of a hawk, and "Tiger, Tiger" are both splendid examples of colour woodcuts. Her water-colours, obviously designs for her woodcuts, are not very interesting. They lack the necessary technical qualities so desirable in a water colour. Mr. Jordan's sense of design and decoration is at its best in "Sea-horses," "Old Wives," and "The Leap.'"' the last named being a clever arrangement of kangaroos. 

His etchings and dry-points are inclined to be overworked and woolly. A study of the extreme simplicity and economy of line in the works of Whistler and Sir D. Y. Cameron would be of advantage. Etching is more a matter of drawing than of tone-and free, spontaneous drawing at that. This most enjoyable show is well worth seeing. 

[The Australasian, 10 December 1932, page 19]