International studio (23.1904)

Studio-Talk


most noteworthy are the
charming Little London,
The Smith's Yard, and
the wonderfully atmo-
spheric litho-tint, The
Thames. The familiar
print Gant de Suede, also
can be counted among
the better things.

PORTRAIT OF A LADY

(Inpossession ofjame van Alen, Esq.)
directions. The demands of his profession make
imperative the abandonment of some of that vehe-
ment interest in other subjects which has been such
a characteristic of his career during the past thirty
years.
An exhibition of Mr. Whistler’s lithographs has
been opened recently in Mr. Dunthorne’s Gallery.
Included in it are fifty-five prints, an approxi-
mately complete series of his works in the litho-
graphic medium, and one which shows effectively
his command over the process. The best of the
prints are those, like the St. Anne’s, Soho; The
Novel, and The Dancing Girl, in which he has
kept to almost pure line; and the worst are the
nudes, The Model Reclining and The Model
Reading, which illustrate a little too plainly his
habitually inelegant convention in drawing the
undraped figure. Among the other examples the

Mr. A. E. Emslie’s
water-colour drawings, two
of which are here illus-
trated, of Japan and its
People, exhibited at the
Leicester Galleries, can be
welcomed both on account
of their technical merit and
because they give a reason-
ably new view of a country
which has been much
painted during recent
years.. Mr. Emslie has
insisted judiciously upon
the gaiety of colour which
is a feature of both the
scenery of Japan and of
the costumes of the people,
and he has carried out his
work with all the technical
skill which was fairly to be
expected from an artist of
his high capacity. The
result of his labours was a
more than ordinarily at-
tractive exhibition—one, indeed, which satisfied
not only lovers of pretty things, but also the
experts who admire capable accomplishment.
Mr. Nico Jungmann has been showing in the
same galleries a number of Pictures of Holland,
which are worth noting on account of the advance
both in appreciation of artistic essentials and in
command of technical refinements revealed in
them. He has broadened his view of art, and
does not now limit himself so strictly as he did
formerly to one manner of statement. He seems
to be in process of development, and his work
year by year is widening in scope and gaining in
expressiveness. To what he will come eventually
it is, at present, hard to say; but he has so much
individuality and sees things from such an unusual
standpoint that almost anything is possible.

BY MIEREVEI.DT

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