Other  Exhibition Pages

 

Edinburgh Photogrpahic Society 

1909

 Open Exhibition

The 1909 Exhibition opened on 20 February 1909 by the Right Hon. Lord Dunedin.

Two Exhibitions this Session

In earlier sessions, EPS held an annual exhibition with separate sections for Open competition and EPS Members.

In 1908-09, two separate exhibitions were held:

-  November 1908:  Members' Exhibition

-  February 1909:    Open Exhibition

This move was welcomed by The Scotsman, The Glasgow Herald and The Evening News.  The Evening Dispatch also spoke highly of the exhibition        [Transactions of EPS,  March 1909:  p.53]

Exhibition Notice

EPS Open Exhibiton Poster  -  1909

©  Reproduced by courtesy of Edinburgh Photographic Society

The medal photographed below is the same style as that in the advert above but, in fact, was awarded in the Lantern Slide Section of the Members' Exhibition seven years later.

Exhibition Medal

EPS Medal  -  1910s and 1920s

©  Copyright: For permission to reproduce,
please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

 

BJP Report

The British Journal of Photography reported:

"The exhibition is this year an open one, a separate exhibition for members having been held in the Autumn.  By thus dividing their activities into two parts, the Hanging Committee have been enabled to do much greater justice to the works submitted." 
 [BJP 1909, p.169]

The BJP Report gave particular praise to the work of John Moffat:

"In Class A (portrait and figure studies) ...Hon. mention is also made of work by John Moffat ...  Mr Moffat's pictures are both oil prints of great beauty and high technical excellence, one a portrait of Mr John McWhirter R.A. (No 6) and the other "Now Waiting Patient the sweet hour of rest", a charming portrayal of an old lady, absolutely simple and dignified.  It might well have been granted a higher award.

In addition to these two pictures mentioned, Mr Moffat also shows in this class a well composed group, "Her First Lesson". 

In the Landscape section ...  ...   A very striking picture is "The Proclamation" by John Moffat (No 63), a fine and in many ways a great representation of an historic event.  Pictorial representations of such scenes are often dull and dreary in their ugliness, and of no interest to any but those who can recognise themselves or their friends in the crowd, that it is refreshing to find someone who has subordinated such ideas and dwelt rather on the massing of his lights and shadows and the giving of dignity to a great historic event.

There is no niggling or undue care over details, but a real sense of breadth and design.  This is one of a number of oil prints in the exhibition, and emphasizes the fact that in the hands of a good worker it is a process capable of great things."

  

Exhibition Judges

Judges for the exhibition were:

Campbell Noble RSA

Robert Burns ASRA

Archibald Cochrane

 

Section I  -  Class A

Portrait & Figure Studies

Open to All

Medals

R S Webster

"Portrait"

James McKissack

"At the Harbour, Volendam"

John Hepburn

"The Village Smithy"

Honourable

Mention

John Hepburn

"The Village Fiddler"

John Moffat

"Portrait of John McWhirter RA"

John Moffat

"Now Waiting Patient
the Sweet Hour of Rest"

Kenneth F Bishop

"It won't go Wight"

James Hamilton

"Daisy"

P Ward-Thompson

"Peatella"

 

Section I  -  Class B

Landscape, Seascape or Other Subjects

Open to All

Medals

A Eddington

"Birches"

B Ward-Thompson

"Here Comes a Roller
in the Glen
"

Honourable Mentions

W C S Fergusson

"The Estuary"

James McKissack

"The Beguinage Gateway"

James McKissack

"The Fisher's Harbour, Ostend"

 

Section II

Photographs in Colour

No Awards

 

Section III

Lantern Slides

Medals

W A Taylor

Peterborough Cathedral

W A J Hensler

Autumn

Honourable Mentions

Robert Marshall

The Glories of the Departing Day

Thomas Carlyle

Here, daily, from this breechen cell
The hermit squirrel steals to drink

 

Medals Awarded to

Andrew Paterson (Inverness)

Andrew Paterson

I see that the recently launched Andrew Paterson Collection web site refers to and illustrates EPS Medals awarded for portraiture to Andrew Paterson in 1909 and 1920.

Questions

1.  How can I  reconcile the Medal awarded by EPS  to Andrew Paterson in 1909 and illustrated on the Andrew Paterson Collection web site with the Medals that I have listed above***?

 *** I believe that I took these details from contemporary editions of Transactions of EPS and The British Journal of Photography.)

2.  Was the Inverness photographer and Medal winner, Andrew Paterson related to the EPS Member and Medal winner, J D Paterson, listed above?

Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh:  July 28, 2013

EPS Exhibitions

EPS Open  Exhibitions

1861    1863   1872   1873    1876   1890    1896    1897    1898    1899    1900   1901   Feb_1902   Nov_1902   1903   1905    1906   1907   1908    1909    1910    1911    1912   1913     1914   1915   1916    1917    1918    1919    1923    1924    1926    1928    1931    1937   1939    1940    1942   1945    1948    1949   1950   1951    1952   1953   1954    1955  1956   1957    1958    1959   1961    1962    1963    1969   1981    1990s   1995  Photos   2001   2002   2003   2004   2005  2006    2007    2008    2009   2010    2011    2012    2013    2014    2015   2016   2017   2018

Catalogues:  from 1987             Posters:  from 2001

Countries:    A-G    H-Q    R-Z     All     by year

Medals and Ribbons awarded:   1994- 2004

Judges/Selectors:    1861-1910     1911-40      1941-60      1961-80     1981-

EPS Members' Exhibitions

1882    1885    1889   1891    1892   1893   1894   1895   1896    1898    1908   1909   1910    1911   1912    1913   1914    1920    1922    1939    1940    1941    2004   2005   2006

Judges/Selectors:    1861-1910     1911-1960     1961-     Trophies

Exhibition Rules      1891

 

 

__________________