Studio: international art (71.1917)

Studio- Talk

"KACHO" BY ARAKI-JIPPO

Senrei and Satake-Eiryo. A few paintings
stood prominent at the Dokugakai exhibition
recently held in the same building. Araki-
Jippo had a pair of gold screens, upon which
he painted an autumnal scene with geese among
reeds. Like his father Kwampo, who died ilot
long ago, he excels in kacho subjects (flowers
and birds). Especially is he strong in the bold
and free use of the brush, as in the picture above
referred to, and as shown in Kacho, here repro-
duced, with three kasasagi on an oak branch.
Ikegami-Shuho also exhibited a pair of gold
screens with pine-trees and a flock of kasasagi

drawn in sumi (black ink). He, too, is at his
best in this medium, and his drawings are
characterized by strength of brush-work and
vigour of expression. His Evening Moon, an
autumnal scene, here reproduced, is one of the
best works he has executed in recent years.

The fourth exhibition of water-colour paintings
contained some representative works and pre-
sented an interesting phase of a new tendency.
A number of artists who have hitherto been
recognized as oil painters showed here their
efforts in water-colours. Not only the works
of these artists, but those of others who have
always used the water-colour medium, have come
to resemble oil paintings both in treatment and
in general effect. Terazaki-Takeo's sketches,
numbering nearly one hundred and mostly done
in Venice in the post-impressionistic style,
emphasized rhythm in colours.

The fifth annual exhibition of the Kofukai
contained a number of interesting works in oil
and in water-colours, and also a memorial exhi-
bition of works by Raphael Collin, who died a
few months ago, and under whom some of the
principal promoters of the society studied while
in Paris. Harada-Jiro.

The well-known " Yellow Door " School of
Modern Landscape and Pictorial Art is to be
transferred from Beckenham to new London
quarters at 116 Victoria Street, Westminster,
this coming October, where the classes will be
carried on under the personal direction of Mr.
Frank Spenlove-Spenlove, R.I., as hitherto. The
" Spenlove " School was founded some twenty-
three years ago, and owing to the increased
demand for instruction by pupils from all parts
of the world, it has been found necessary to
make London its permanent centre and address.

In reference to the report in our June issue
concerning recent acquisitions by the National
Gallery of Canada at Ottawa, it should have
been stated that the sum paid by the trustees
for the late Mrs. Forbes's painting When Daffo-
dils Begin to Peer was divided between the
Canadian Red Cross and the Canadian Young
Men's Christian Association as a donation to
their war funds in memory of the artist. This
allocation of the purchase money was a condition
expressly stipulated by Mr. Stanhope Forbes.

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