International studio (21.1903/1904(1904))

the end of a room 30 feet wide and about 16 feet
above ftoor level.

Messrs. Alison Martin and Clinton Balmer,
who have collaborated in this decoration, received
their training mainly at the Liverpool School of
Art, Mount Street, under Mr. Frederick V. Bur-
ridge. Mr. Martin worked for a short period at
Julian's and Calorossi's Studios in Paris. Both he
and Mr. Balmer have also studied hgure drawing
under Mr. Augustus C. John at the Liverpool
University College.

Referring again to the lunette decoration:
enthroned on a stately marble is Know-
ledge, supported on each side by ßgures
symbolising Literature and The Arts; at the
foot Labour is presenting the fruits of the
earth and produce of the sea. On the extreme
left under the Tree of Knowledge a well-
designed group of hgures is instructing youthful
Innocence, and on the extreme right is Ignorance
and his companions shrouded in gloom. The
landscape accessories are well treated, especially
so the cumulus clouds behind the marble
The whole composition is a very
harmonious scheme of colour. The central
Hgure loses something of dignity and importance
by the enlargement of the foreground hgures to
gain perspective effect. Maintaining the scale of

the hgures more upon the same plane would
perhaps have been preferable.

Miss May Greville Cooksey's Studio exhibition
created much interest; her chief work displayed
was 7%; painted for the "Star of
the Sea" Church at Seaforth, a picture designed
for the eastern apse above the reredos. Trained
in the Mount Street School of Art, under Mr.
F. Burridge, Miss Cooksey gained the Liver-
pool Travelling Studentship, and was thus enabled
to devote a year's study in Italy to the ecclesiastical
art of the early Italian masters, whose spirit is a
perceivable inSuence both in the drawing and the
colour scheme of this very successful decoration.
H. B. B.
H "V ARIS.—It is settled that in November
H jy next we are to have our autumn Salon.
J M. Rambosson it was who Rrst started
the project, and it is now about to be
carried out, the city of Paris having offered to the
new Salon the galleries of the Petit Palais, which
will be heated and lit by electricity. The President
of the new society is M. Frantz Jourdain, the
eminent head of the syndicate of the artistic press.
The honorary presidents are Messrs. Carriere and
Besnard. The committee is composed of MM.
Truchet, Auburtin, Adler, Aman-Jean, des Vallieres,
Picart, Willette, Wery, Besson, Ravanne, and Lopis-


BY FRANTZ JOURDAtN