Studio: international art (80.1920)

REVIEWS

Pirie, A.R.S.A., reveals his intimacy with
and affection for the animal kingdom. a

In landscape work the exhibition is dis-
tinguished at many points. Mr. H. Hughes
Stanton, R.A., Mr. Bertram Priestman,
A.R.A., and Mrs. Laura Knight, with a
remarkably drawn and toned Industrial
Sketch by Mr. James S. Hill, R.I., worthily
represent English Art, while Mr. Julius
Olsson, R.A., revels in charms of a glorious
summer sea. Sir David Murray, R.A., a
regular contributor to the Institute, in
Grimersta, Isle of Lewis, captures the atmos-
phere of the much discussed western isle
that juts out into the blue Atlantic. Mr.
William Wells resumes exhibiting with two
Devonshire sketches, clear as ether ; Mr.
George Houston, A.R.S.A., contributes
from the romantic loch country sketching
ground ; Mr. Archibald Kay, A.R.S.A.,
Mr. Tom Hunt, R.S.W., and Mr. A.
Brownlie Do char ty treat with interest
Highland enchantment; while Lowland
Scottish landscape art is capably repre-
sented by Mr. John Henderson and Mr.
J. Morris Henderson; and Mr. Hugh
Munro gives renewed introduction to his
particular type in aesthetic environment.
Mr. W. A. Gibson's French and Dutch
landscapes are compositionally and tonally
convincing. Mr. R. Macaulay Stevenson's
Reverie, lent by Mr. Hugh Duncan, is one
of those dreamy, subtle, suggestive visions
possible only to a rare temperamentalist.

In the Water-Colour Section, Mr. W.
Russell Flint is conspicuous on a generous
scale. His Bull Fight: The Banderilleros,
and Promenade des]ennes Filles, Jour de Fete,
Provence, are marked by that spontaneity
and purity of wash, which as Arthur Melville
demonstrated so completely, the medium
is capable of encouraging. In Autumn
Landscape Mr.James Cadenhead,A.R.S.A.,
gives a poetic rendering of a peaceful scene,
Mr. A. K. Brown, R.S.A., Mr. W. Y.
Macgregor, A.R.S.A., Mr. Ewen Geddes,
R.S.W., Mr. Edwin Noble, R.B.A., and
Mr. Robert Eadie send notable contribu-
tions ; while striking still life representa-
tions come from Mr. James Paterson,
R.S.A., Mr. S. J. Peploe, A.R.S.A., and
Mr. Leslie Hunter, a a a a

The Sculpture includes, besides some
excellent work by Scottish sculptors,
characteristic examples of the art of Mr.

Alfred Drury, R.A., Mr. Alfred Gilbert
and Mr. Epstein. a 0 a a

J. T.

REVIEWS.

Bookplates by Frank Brangwyn, R.A.
Foreword by Eden Phillpotts ; technical
note by E. Hesketh Hubbard. (London :
Morland Press, Ltd.) Mr. Brangwyn's
amazing versatility as an artist and his no
less amazing craftsmanship are well shown
in the seventy bookplates here gathered
together and admirably presented in mono-
chrome or in one or other agreeable com-
bination of tints. Some are reproduced
from pencil sketches of rare delicacy, but
many, if not most of them, are apparently
printed from wood blocks cut by the artist
himself, who has designed expressly for
this volume a number of initials, decora-
tions, etc., and they reveal that" masculine
forthrightness and grip " which, as Mr.

FROM "THE BOOKPLATES OF
FRANK BRANGWYN, R.A."

Morland Press, Ltd.)

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