International studio (30.1906/1907(1907))

Studio-Talk



“by murmuring stream”
in the city. The new society claims a freedom
and independence as marked as any of the schools
of painting that have become impatient of all
academic or other restraint. Of the pictures that
made their show interesting the contributions of the
president claim first at-
tention. Amongst the
eight works by John
Hassall, R.I., The Un-
e77iployed was the most
important, as in some
respects it was the most
striking picture in the
room. The artist has
handled a difficult sub-
ject with much skill,
having unmistakably
caught the atmosphere of
a thick London fog, in
the dimness of which is
grouped a mass of living,
throbbing humanity.
Among the landscapists
the work of Taylor Brown
at once attracted atten-
tion, his four canvases re-
calling the method of the
Barbizon School. By
Murmuri7ig Stream is a
picture of fine poetic

feeling, and the Leeds
Corporation may be con-
gratulated on the posses-
sion of a striking example
of the young artist’s work.
Mr. W. A. Gibson showed
marked advance in the
interval since the first ex-
hibition of the society. In
Pastoral, Windy Weather,
and particularly in Near
Cartmel, Mr. Gibson
showed that subtlety of
method that has already
won him distinction. W.
Cunningham Hector is a
young artist with a future.
His Shell Fisher Carts
shows cleverness in sea
and figure study, and is
full of observation and
action. Stewart Orr was
for once in a serious vein,
and chiefly in the medium
of water-colour showed some striking Highland
studies. Dudley Hardy sent two interesting
sketches, The Old Kitchen and Pierrot, and not-
able contributions were sent by Wm. Watt Milne
and others. In the black-and-white section Jessie

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