International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

Studio-Talk


CHRISTEN ING CUP BY FLORA STEELE
three needlework pictures : a landscape
by Miss Kate Button; The Orchard,
by Miss Yeats ; and The Rose Bower, by
Miss Joan Drew. Miss Button’s picture
was excellent in colour and design; and,
indeed, all the needlework was exception-
ally good in design and execution.

Included with the exhibition was an
interesting collection of Italian laces
from the schools of the Countess Cora
da Brazza-Savorgnan Torreano.

We are glad to learn that the Lyceum
Club proposes to open a further Arts and
Crafts Exhibition this month. The sig-
nificant feature of these exhibitions is
that every exhibit is the work of a member
of the Club. The recent exhibition
included only the work of British mem-
bers. The forthcoming one will include
the work of members from all parts
—-from America, France, Germany, copper standing mirror by evelyn hickman

Italy, Holland, Spain, Russia, the Colonies, and
India.
EDINBURGH.—This year’s exhibition of
the Society of Scottish Artists was on very
similar lines toitsimmediate predecessors.
It contained a few notable or interesting
“educative examples,” obtamed either on loan
from collectors or from specially invited artists, and
it was fairly representative of what the younger
artists in the East of Scotland are doing at the
moment. As regards the latter, while there was
nothing comparable with the tender and profound
or the facile and brilliant pictures with which the
late W. J. Yule and the late Robert Brough respec-
tively emerged at the early exhibitions of the
society in the beginning of the nineties, a good
Standard of accomplishment was maintained ; and,
if one could descry no new talent of exceptional
promise, a number of the members showed improve-
ment on their past. This was notably the case with
Mr. W. Walls, whose recent work, especially in
water-colour, revealed a great advance in subtlety of
handling and charm of colour : with Miss Katherine


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