DOI Heft:
No. 229 (April 1912)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0245
Studio- Talk
and at the same gallery the selection of Miss Ethel
Harington’s water-colours of India, Burma, and
Kashmir deserves recording.
In noticing the last exhibition of the New
English Art Club in our January issue we called
special attention to the landscape work of Mr.
Charles M. Gere on account of its very personal
note. During the present month Mr. Gere is
holding at the Carfax Gallery an exhibition of his
Alpine and Italian landscapes, of which we repro-
duce some characteristic examples. In his mani-
pulation of the water-colour medium there is a
delightful quality which puts these drawings in a
category of their own. At the same gallery Mr. R.
Ihlee has been showing a collection of his drawings.
This artist seems to endeavour to make his work
look a little more impressive than it really is by
recourse to every imitation of museum treasures
that faded paper and ink will allow. The careful
imitation of the apparent carelessness of a Rem-
brandt or Daumier is also overdone. Apart from
affectation of this kind, however, the drawings
succeed in expressing an imaginative, if not attrac-
tive, outlook. _
The Women’s International Art Club is to be
congratulated upon its thirteenth exhibition just
closed. It owed much to Miss Ethel Walker’s por-
traits, Miss Ruth Hollingsw'orth’s The Bather, and
Mrs. Laura Knight’s A Picnic, while among other
pictures which should be mentioned are the still-
life pieces of Miss Louise Pickard, Miss Olga
Brand-Krieghammer, and Miss H. Amiard Ober-
teuffer; La Vieille Maison, by Miss Adeline M.
Fox; The Back Drawing-room, by E. Q. Henriques;
A Summer Evening, by E. Stewart Wood; Les
Mantilles, by B. de Jong; Stopham Bridge, by
Gabell Smith; The Upland Way, by Ethel L.
Rawlins; and Shepherdess and Geraniums, by
Janet Procter. Miss Jessie M. King’s embroidery
panel presented a beautiful effect of colour in
needlework. The exhibition was greatly enriched
by the sculpture of Mrs. Scott (Kathleen Bruce),
whose remarkable gift for portraiture in sculpture
has long been recognised, and was fully shown here
in portraits of Mr. John Galsworthy, Mr. Gran-
ville Barker, Mr. Charles Ricketts, The Hon. Sydney
Holland, Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., and Mr.
W. B. Yeats, among others. There were also from
her hand a copy of the monument of the Hon.
C. S. Rolls now being erected at Dover, and some
highly imaginative little groups from the nude.
The Mother and Child, which we are reproducing
on page 227, represents her beautiful execution in a
characteristic phase.
The twenty-sixth exhibition of the Ridley Art
Club, held at the Grafton Galleries, contained a
fine selection of modern English painting, if in
“ CLOUDED SUMMITS
FROM A WATER-COLOUR DRAWING ON SILK BY CHARLES M. GERE
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and at the same gallery the selection of Miss Ethel
Harington’s water-colours of India, Burma, and
Kashmir deserves recording.
In noticing the last exhibition of the New
English Art Club in our January issue we called
special attention to the landscape work of Mr.
Charles M. Gere on account of its very personal
note. During the present month Mr. Gere is
holding at the Carfax Gallery an exhibition of his
Alpine and Italian landscapes, of which we repro-
duce some characteristic examples. In his mani-
pulation of the water-colour medium there is a
delightful quality which puts these drawings in a
category of their own. At the same gallery Mr. R.
Ihlee has been showing a collection of his drawings.
This artist seems to endeavour to make his work
look a little more impressive than it really is by
recourse to every imitation of museum treasures
that faded paper and ink will allow. The careful
imitation of the apparent carelessness of a Rem-
brandt or Daumier is also overdone. Apart from
affectation of this kind, however, the drawings
succeed in expressing an imaginative, if not attrac-
tive, outlook. _
The Women’s International Art Club is to be
congratulated upon its thirteenth exhibition just
closed. It owed much to Miss Ethel Walker’s por-
traits, Miss Ruth Hollingsw'orth’s The Bather, and
Mrs. Laura Knight’s A Picnic, while among other
pictures which should be mentioned are the still-
life pieces of Miss Louise Pickard, Miss Olga
Brand-Krieghammer, and Miss H. Amiard Ober-
teuffer; La Vieille Maison, by Miss Adeline M.
Fox; The Back Drawing-room, by E. Q. Henriques;
A Summer Evening, by E. Stewart Wood; Les
Mantilles, by B. de Jong; Stopham Bridge, by
Gabell Smith; The Upland Way, by Ethel L.
Rawlins; and Shepherdess and Geraniums, by
Janet Procter. Miss Jessie M. King’s embroidery
panel presented a beautiful effect of colour in
needlework. The exhibition was greatly enriched
by the sculpture of Mrs. Scott (Kathleen Bruce),
whose remarkable gift for portraiture in sculpture
has long been recognised, and was fully shown here
in portraits of Mr. John Galsworthy, Mr. Gran-
ville Barker, Mr. Charles Ricketts, The Hon. Sydney
Holland, Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., and Mr.
W. B. Yeats, among others. There were also from
her hand a copy of the monument of the Hon.
C. S. Rolls now being erected at Dover, and some
highly imaginative little groups from the nude.
The Mother and Child, which we are reproducing
on page 227, represents her beautiful execution in a
characteristic phase.
The twenty-sixth exhibition of the Ridley Art
Club, held at the Grafton Galleries, contained a
fine selection of modern English painting, if in
“ CLOUDED SUMMITS
FROM A WATER-COLOUR DRAWING ON SILK BY CHARLES M. GERE
224