International studio (32.1907)

Studio-Talk

with a soft velvet effect, the border being an Ameri-
can Indian in his birch-bark canoe in approximately
a heliotrope and delicate green colour. The walls
of the saloon are a simple but effective wood panel-
ling painted white. The chairs and settees are of
ebonised wood with rush seats of the Morris type.

At the Clifford Gallery Mr. Yoshio Markino
showed last month a number of delightful draw-
ings under the general title of “ The Colour of
London.” We refer to these drawings in
our review of the book published under that
title.

Mr. Max Beerbohm’s caricatures at the Carfax
Gallery have been greeted with enthusiasm, the
critic of one influential periodical soothing him-
self with “their tranquil and tender colour” after
a visit to the Academy. We prefer to take them
at the value prompted by their own naivetL
That much of this naivetk is affectation could be
seen in the Lord Tweedmouth, with its inspiriting
line. With his quite abstract line, “ Max ” is
the Blake of comedy. It is his gift, with a few
lines, to transport his subject to a distance so far
removed from all feeling but humour that nothing
is kind or cruel.

The water-colours by Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton
at the Leicester Galleries showed that artist work-
ing in a medium which may be said to be new to
him. The style which he has formed in it does

not closely remind us of the note which is so personal
in his oils. Apparently he has not discovered yet
all the pleasantest qualities of water-colour; this
he has done in the case of the oil medium.

THE “ LOG CABIN ” HOUSEBOAT : DINING SALOON

DESIGNED BY GEORGE WALTON

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