International studio (19.1903)

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has recentiy completed for one of Miss
Cranston's tea-rooms in this city.
Sufhce it to say that the work more
than maintains the high reputation of
this talented and imaginative designer.

We have pleasure in giving iltus-
trations on pp. 289 and 291 of two
pastel studies by a clever and rising
young artist, Miss Paxton Brown.
H UBLIN.—The unusual in-
H terest shown in all things
# pertaining to art last winter
* ^ in Dublin is one more proof
of the reality of the intellectual revival
that is going on in Ireland. First came
Sir Walter Armstrong's lectures at
Alexandra College on portrait painting
—an admirable series of critical studies
and a fitting prelude to the Exhibition
-of Old Masters at the Royal Hibernian
Academy. This latter Exhibition, which
was designed and carried out with such
triumphant success by Mr. Hugh Lane,
brought to light several hne and almost
unknown portraits by Reynolds, Rom-
ney, Hoppner, and other eighteenth-
nentury painters, and gave some idea
of the treasures that lie hidden in Irish
country houses. A curious paradox in connec-
tion with this Old Masters Exhibition is that
-out of it has grown the idea of a modern


WALL DECORATMN

RY C. R. MACKINTOSH

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municipal gallery for Dublin. Thousands of
people flocked to see these pictures, interest in
art was stimulated, and as a result an induential


'"THE WASSAIL" WALL DECORATION

BY CHARI.ES R. MACKINTOSH


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