International studio (32.1907)

The New

Mr. Byam Shaw’s The Caged Bird, and The Church
Porch, a well-suggested winter subject by Mr. F.
Spenlove Spenlove. Mr. Melton Fisher’s Songs of
Araby is a good record of an effect of lamplight;
and the little semi-nude, Reflections, by Mr. A.
Hitchens, and Mr. St. George Hare’s scholarly
and sincere picture A Passing Acquaintance, are
of real importance.

Four landscapes stand out conspicuously among
the better things of this class which have been
given places in the show. Mr. Alfred East’s The
Dignity of Autumn is one of his finest efforts,
splendidly decorative in design and most beau-
tiful in its well balanced arrangement of tones of
golden colour; Mr. J. L. Pickering’s Sylvia’s Pool,
largely felt and robustly treated, and Mr. J. Coutts
Michie’s reticent and broadly handled Among the
Silent Hills, are both admirable in their pictorial
qualities, and have the real ro-
manticist sentiment; and the
large painting of The Gorge,

Fontainebleau, by Mr. Hughes-
Stanton, is commendably digni-
fied, and is thoroughly sound in
its quiet naturalism. Mr. Moffat
Lindner’s Amsterdam, Mr. Mon-
tague Smyth’s Hampstead Heath,

Mr. J. Aumonier’s Evening on a
Sussex Common-, The Court of the
Oleanders by Mr. Alfred Withers,
and La Cite de Carcassonne by
Mrs. Dods-Withers ; Mr. Ivystan
Hetherington’s expansive and at-
mospheric marsh-land landscape,
and Mr. Leslie Thomson’s lumi-
nous On the Links, have all
particular claims upon the con-
sideration of lovers of nature;
and there are two little canvases
by Mr. Fred Yates, Snow at
Rydal and Snow at Rydal Park,
which, the first one especially,
could bear comparison with the
works of the greatest masters of
landscape. Mr. Yates sees nature
with the eye of a poet, but in
seeking for poetic expression he
does not forget to explain himself
through the medium of skilful
and purposeful craftsmanship.

There is a little good sculpture,
some of which, like the large
equestrian figure Richard Neville,

Earl of Warwick, by Mr.

Gallery

Joubert, is definitely out of the beaten track. The
statue, Lupercalia, by Mr. Conrad Dressier can be
highly praised for its excellence of modelling and
for its good suggestion of movement, and Mr. F.
Derwent Wood’s Echo, Mr. Alfred Drury’s St. Mi-
chael, and Mr. Basil Gotto’s A. Chichele Plowden,
Esq., for their thoroughly accomplished treatment.
The symbolical figure Man and his Burden, by the
late Roscoe Mullins, is impressively conceived and
is free from any touch of extravagance. Among
the other things in the exhibition which ought not
to be overlooked are two architectural studies, one,
an amazingly clever sketch, by Mr. Sargent, and
the other, the Gateway of St. John’s College, Cam-
bridge, by Mr. W. Logsdail; a series of illustrative
drawings by Mr. H. J. Ford; some crayon por-
traits by Mr. C. E. Ritchie; the miniatures by
Mrs. M. L’ewellyn, Mrs. A. E. Emslie, Mrs.