International studio (33.1907/1908(1908))

Studio- Talk


Edinburgh.—it is
all in the interest of
art in Scotland that
there should exist in
Edinburgh a society composed
mainly of the younger men
in the profession whose main
object is to run an Exhibition
of their own, which, while not
antagonistic to the Academy,
yet naturally gives greater
scope to those who are outside
Academic rank. The Scottish
Artists’ Society has justified its
existence in that it was largely
instrumental in leading to re-
form in the management of
Academy exhibitions, and it
may thus be said to have
accomplished one main pur-
pose of its founders. But its
continued prosperity shows the
need for and the public ap-
preciation of the Society.

that have been substituted for works sold during
the summer show which are noteworthy. Murray
Smith’s little panel, Dutchmen—boats lying in a
flat-shored estuary—is painted with well-chosen
variety of impasto. Mr. Elphinstone’s Morning—
boats sailing swiftly under a light breeze across a
silvery sea, is among the most striking works
shown, and Mr. L. C. Powles has an excellent
landscape in oils, painted with his accustomed
good taste and feeling for quality. Miss Kemp-
Welch has a study of three cobs, which is up
to her reputation. Many of the landscapes seem
needlessly large for their artistic motifs, no doubt a
result of the fierce competition in galleries, where
small work, however good, is liable to be over-
looked. In this respect Mr. A. Talmage’s Under
Grey Skies must be said to err; otherwise it is a
capable study of the silvery clouds of France float-
ing over a typical landscape.
Mr. Frank Swinstead has some
good pastels of farmyard
subjects well carried through,
and Harding Smith’s Lyme
Regis from the Charmouth
Road is an attractive water-
colour. A. H. R. T.

held in three of the galleries of the Royal
Scottish Academy, well maintains the standard
of any which has preceded, especially as regards
landscape, while the excellence of some of
the figure work redeems the paucity of quantity,
and there are one or two portraits of average
merit. Mason Hunter, who was this year
elected Chairman of the Council, has made
a distinct step forward with a large sea-piece. For
a number of years most of his work has lain in
this direction associated more or less with inci-
dent. In his picture of ’Ttoixt Morven and Mull
where the Tide Eddies Roar, he has not only
reached a finer harmony of greys, but the wave
modelling conveys a fitting sense of the vastness
and power of the sea. Another of the young men,
W. M. Frazer, has an important Highland land-
scape, the largest he has yet exhibited, with an

The thirteenth Exhibition
of the Society, now being

“GLOIRE DE DIJON

BY ROBERT HOPE