International studio (20.1903)

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other painting, painting of a
sunny and spontaneous kind
that does him infinite credit.


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has earned for the artist a gold
medal, while the picture has been bought for the
Luxembourg Gallery.

At the Galleries of the
Societe des Beaux Arts in
Glasgow some very inter-
esting work has recently
been seen. A miscellaneous
exhibition of pictures by
masters of such varied
powers as Vollon and
Guthrie, Ribot and Monti-
celli could not fail to be
appreciated. By the latter
artist was an unusual work,
a restrained and delicate
portrait of a man; by Guthrie
there was a sober pastel por-
trait, and by Ribot two
works evincing his usual
sense of quietude and power.
One of these, AA/tyj,
is illustrated on page 299.
Later, at the same galleries, an exceedingly
fine show of drawings by Joseph Crawhall was
arranged, which may be more fully dealt with in a
later number of THE STUDto. And still another

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The picture 7%; ZaTM?
AZz'j/f, which Mr.
Archibald Kay contributed
to the Royal Scottish
Academy, is a strong and
forceful landscape of no
mean power, and though
it is well seen on the
Academy walls it is not
hung with the discrimina-
tion its merits deserve.
Mr. Kay's work is always
well thought out, accom-
plished and sincere; he
realises the pictorial possi-
bilities of his subjects, and
he paints with feeling
and power. The finely
rendered grey sky and the
searchingly painted water
of ZrtM^ show
that he possesses vigour;
that his work has also
charm and delicacy is
evident from much of his