International studio (19.1903)

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Thehistoryofshipdecorationhas
yet to be written, but most persons
know something about the subject,
and are aware that the shapes and the
ornamentations of ships have ever
been of great interest. Mr. Morton
Nance, iike Mr. Frank Brangwyn,
takes a keen deiight in every branch
of the subject, and the admirable
pencil studies which are reproduced
on pages goand 51 wiH drawattention
to the work he has done from the ship
models in the Louvre.

work has carried out for His Majesty's private chapei
at Windsor. The work was commissioned by the
late Queen, and the design is by Mr. Comper.

Mr. Albert Goodwin's water-colour drawings at
Mr. Dunthorne's Galtery and Mr. Trevor Had-
don's <7/ ^<??7? at the Leicester Galiery
made exhibitions both of which can fairly be called
distinguished. Mr. Goodwin's works were mostly
fanciful and imaginative transcriptions of nature,
and iHustrated less the topography of the places he
had chosen to depict than the impression made
upon him by effects of atmosphere and subtle
gradations of aerial colour. Mr. Trevor Haddon's
pictures and sketches were, on the other hand,
records of the features of two particular towns.
They were very sound and sincere, full of earnest
observation and handled with sober strength.

It is with pleasure that we reproduce
a beautifully worked altar.frontal which
the Royal Irish Schoolof Art Needle-

'A TANGLED HEBGEROW

HY W. G. SIMMONDS

for formalities of design and expression have not
diminished, but he has added to them a sensitive-
ness to what may be called the accidental charms
of nature which previously was not apparent in his
work. In many of these drawings subtleties of
atmosphere and modulations of aerial tone, which
he has not before taken into account, modified
perceptibly his decorative intention; and in the
series of portraits, which was one of the features of
the exhibition, he combined in a delightful fashion
study of individual character with quaint conven-
tion in technical method.

The " Landscape Exhibition," which has by now
become an important institution, opened at the
beginning of January in the Dudley Gallery. It
presented a more than usually excell&nt collection
of pictures by Sir E. A. Waterlow, Mr. Leslie
Thomson, Mr. R. W. Allan, Mr. J.
Aumonier, Mr. Peppercorn, and Mr.
Mark Fisher, all of whom did them-
selves ample justice. The canvases
which can be counted as the chief
things in the show are Sir E. A.
Waterlow's
Mr. Leslie Thomson's 7?<pf?W? A?<%<p?,
Mr. AHan's ^4?/?'7/77?7?, Mr. Aumonier's
,^?77&7'.S'<$<Z77? C<?77?77?<777, A?/^?r, Mr.
Peppercorn's C7*<y and &/7'7'^y
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cannot be said to have contained
anything unworthy of attention. It
was extremely well balanced, and
had a most attractive atmosphere of
sincere and intelligent study.

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