Studio: international art (72.1918)

Studio-Talk

STUDIO-TALK.

(From our own Correspondents.)

LONDON.—In an article on the paintings
of Mr. L. Campbell Taylor which ap-
peared in these pages nearly two years
ago the writer drew attention to the
fact that this artist cultivated two distinct
manners, “ the one rather smooth and highly
finished, though Whistlerian and unified in
tonality; the other broad with short alert
touches.” The picture which we reproduce
in colour comes undoubtedly into the latter
category, and to those who are only acquainted
with Mr. Campbell Taylor’s carefully rendered
interiors, with their charming inmates, bedecked
in the dress of the Early Victorian period, this
robust and direct plein air will come almost as
a surprise. Yet this broadly treated canvas,
with its strong brushwork and bold colouring,
possesses all the grace and
charm which we associate
with the artist’s more
familiar compositions.

long before that time been acknowledged and
proclaimed by discerning critics, whose judg-
ment has been triumphantly vindicated by
Rodin’s lifework as a whole. The tributes of
homage which his death called forth, eloquently
witnessed to the universal esteem with which
his achievements are now regarded.

The International Society—whose usual pro-
gramme of a spring apd autumn exhibition has
not been followed for 1917, the autumn display
having been cancelled—has suffered a further
loss by the death of a notable member, Sir
Charles Holroyd, who died on the same day
as Rodin. Known to the world at large as
Director for several years of the National Gal-
lery in Trafalgar Square, and formerly as Keeper
of the Tate Gallery, in the more restricted
circles of art lovers he was known and appre-
ciated as an artist of conspicuous gifts, which

The death of Auguste
Rodin leaves the Inter-
national Society of Sculp-
tors, Painters, and Gravers
without a head, and in
this case certainly it may,
without any exaggeration,
be said that the task of
finding a worthy successor
will not prove an easy one.
It was in 1903 that the
great French sculptor ac-
cepted the presidency of
the Society in succession
to Whistler, and of the
executive members of the
Council who were then
serving, several have pre-
deceased him, as, for in-
stance, Joseph Crawhall,
Charles Furse, Frederick
Sandys, and Fritz Thau-
low. Though even then
there were some who re-
garded his art with indif-
ference, if not disdain, his
pre-eminence among the
sculptors of our day had

FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY ARYA K. CHAUDHURI

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