Studio: international art (71.1917)

The Royal Academy Exhibition, 1917

Hills of Lome and Spring in Stratheam are resource. Mr. Clausen's Girl Braiding her Hair,

most memorable as delightfully suggestive com- Mr. H. Watson's The Dawn, Mr. Byam Shaw's

positions with real individuality of manner. All's Well—Carry On, Mr. Hare's The Omen, and

Mr. Coutts Michie's Chilly Winter ; Mr. Moffat the gay colour exercise, The Blue Carpet, by Mr.

Lindner's An Autumn Sunset: Amsterdam ; Gerald Moira, are also of importance, and there

Mr. A. J. Black's brilliant colour arrangements, are noteworthy things by Mr. 'Laxery, Mr. Talbot

Rippling Melodies and Radiant June ; Mr. Hughes, Mr. Hatherell, and Mr. Greiffenhagen.

W. W. Russell's Ypres as it stood, March 1916 ; Mr. Orpen dominates the portrait painters by

and the amazingly clever the superlative power of

Water's Farm, Roberts- ________ ^s contributions. His

bridge, by Mr. Sims, are portraits of Mr. Winston

all pictures of special Churchill, Colonel Elking-

note ; and there are H ton, and Lady Bonham

others not less deserving Carter are wholly excel-

of consideration by Mr. HT lent in their treatment,

Burroughs-Fowler, Mr. and show sound study of

R. W. Allan, Mr. Streeton, BBnMfcT jgp character. Mr. Hacker's

Mr. Harold Speed, Mr. Martin Harvey, Esq., as

Gwelo Goodman, and Mr. Hamlet, Mr. Hugh Ri-

Sidney Lee, while Mr. • I Hr I H viere's Sir Charles Wynd-

Tom Mostyn's two large ham, Mr. Melton Fisher's

canvases, A Garden of Anthea, Daughter of

Memories and An Elegy, Edward Skimming, Esq.,

are finer in many of their Mr. Solomon J. Solomon's

qualities than anything ■ I 1^^^^ H Lady Rhondda, The Late

he has produced before. I Albert Jessel, K.C., and

The four pictures by bl JB The Marquis of Salisbury,

Mr. Waterhouse make a mk and the superb study,

pathetic appeal as the UHkaL^^^^^^^^am A Young Breton, by Mr.

last we shall have from H Glyn Philpot, have the

a man who for many strongest claims to atten-

years past has added I tion: and other good

much to the interest of things come from Mr.

the Academy shows— Llewellyn, Mr. R. G. Eves,

they remind us sadly of Mr. George Henry, Mr.

the loss we have sus- Bundy, Mr. Bertieri, Mr.

tained by his death. But Glazebrook, Mr. Olivier,

from the men who are and Mr. James Clark,

still with us come some Among the many other

excellent figure subjects. H works deservingconsider-

Mr. Cadogan Cowper's ation are Miss Kemp-
learned and serious art "the lily of killarney." by f. w. Welch's vigorous For-
is well illustrated in his pomeroy, a.r.a. ward—-the Guns, Mr. L.
decorative composition, Campbell Taylor's charm-
Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth, a brilliantly ing study, Interior, and Mr. Wardle's powerful
effective piece of colour ; and another decora- animal pictures, Vae Victis and The Monarch;
tion of great charm is Mr. Anning Bell's Titania and in the sculpture rooms the busts of The
and the Indian Child. Mr. Edward Stott's The Late Edwin Austen Abbey, R.A., by Sir Thomas
Holy Family is interesting as an attempt to give Brock, The Late Father Stanton by Mr. Drury, The
a modern atmosphere to an ancient tradition in Lily of Killarney by Mr. Pomeroy, and Matter Jack
art ; and The Embroideress, by Mr. Sims, is Vaughan by Mr. Derwent Wood, and the statu-
memorable for its sensitive adaptation of primi- ettes, A Wreath of Roses by Sir George Frampton,
tive simplicity and for its masterly technical and The Sandal by Mr. Hamo Thornycroft.
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