International studio (32.1907)

Alfred Waterhouse, R.A.

BY ANTONIO UGO

“ MATERN1TE ”

among present-day Sicilian sculptors he is perhaps
distinguished by the greatest endowment of real
genius. “Modest and retiring,” writes Mr. Sidney
Churchill, H.B. M.’s Consul at Palermo, who has
followed Ugo’s work with keen interest, “ very little
is seen of him professionally. His studio is a work-
shop and not a show-place ” Recently, when King
Edward VII. was at Palermo, His Majesty much
admired Ugo’s work, and ordered that one of his
latest productions should be sent to Buckingham
Palace. It is interesting to recall that Sicily was
renowned for its plastic creations in early ages—
even before the days of the Roman Empire
medallists of Catania and Siracusa had become
faipous.

The Sala Russa, with Seroff’s portrait of the
Emperor Ni holas JI, in the uniform of the Scots
Greys, and Maliavin’s multi-coloured peasant women,
must be traversed ere we leave the building, and out-
side we find a feature of new interest in the Belgian
Pavilion, arranged by Professor Gevaert. The
entrance, with its amber-coloured marble and its
fountain, at once delights us, and within we find a
very well chosen selection of the modem Belgian
school. In the smaller rooms I was delighted with
a triptych in water-colour, Bruges of the Old Times,
by Ferdinand Khnopff; and found near him seven
drawings by that genius of moral obliquity, Felicien
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Rops, besides the fault-
less figure etchings of
Armand Rassenfosse.
Selwyn Brinton.

The following Canadian
artists have formed a group
to be known as the
Canadian Art Club:-—
Homer Watson, R.C.A.
(Doon), Franklin Brownell,
R.C.A. (Ottawa), William
Cruikshank, R.C.A. (To-
ronto), Curtis Williamson,
R.C.A. (Toronto), Edmund
Morris, A.R.C.A.(Toronto),
William Smith, A.R.C.A.
(St. Thomas), W. E. Atkin-
son, A.R.C.A. (Toronto),
and J. Arch Brown (To-
ronto). All of these have
withdrawn from the Ontario
Society of Artists, with the
exception of Mr. Cruik-
shank, who retains his
honorary membership. The
club will have associated with it a strong group of
Montreal painters, and also representative men of
London, Glasgow, and New York, and works by
certain Canadian artists not members of the club
will be invited. The first exhibition will be held
towards the end of November. The object of the
organisation is by exhibiting annually a good selec-
tion of pictures to give a clearer idea of the progress
of Canadian art than is possible in the more hete-
rogeneous exhibitions.

A NOTE ON THE WATER-
COLOUR SKETCHES OF
ALFRED WATERHOUSE, R A.

The name of Alfred Waterhouse will live long
in the history of English Architecture, for his
professional career, which terminated about three
years before his death in 1905, was crowded with
masterly achievements which definitely assure to
him a posi'ion among the foremost architects of
the nineteenth century. It would be tedious to
enumerate all the monumental buildings which
have come into existence as the fruit of his fertile
genius. Manchester, where he commenced prac-
tise in 1853; Liverpool, where he was born
twenty-three years before (his family, however,