International studio (34.1908)

Studio-Talk

at the same time, did not reveal any fresh qualities
in this draughtsman’s art. The same great merits
and the same defects which characterised the draw-
ings for “Peter Pan” were in evidence. A repetition
in the shape the grotesque takes in his art and
overcrowded drawing are his faults; but against
these must be set the virtues of his delicacy in colour
and his line-work, almost invariably sympathetic
and pleasing, as well as that imaginativeness which
makes his work as an illustrator spontaneous,
unexpected, and often as inventive in technique
and treatment as it is in spirit and design.

The Leicester Galleries are also to be congratu-
lated upon their exhibition of works by the late
Henry G. Moon, a painter whose retiring nature
and reluctance to exhibit hindered his great worth
as a landscape painter being adequately acknow-
ledged during his lifetime.
The spirit of his landscapes
is that of English fields,
while it is the school of
Corot which has influenced
him, and the result is a
hybrid but gracious art,
sincere in sentiment, often
very successful in colour,
with trees and p’ant forms
drawn in atmospheric effect
yet suggesting the unusu-
ally extensive knowledge ot
their character which the
painter possessed.

We regret to record the
death, at Cardiff in Decem-
ber, of Mr. William Curtis
Brangwyn, the father of Mr.
Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A.
Mr. W. C. Brangwyn was
an authority on Gothic
architecture, and designed
several churches in this
style. When a young man
he settled in Belgium, and
among other things started
a workshop at Bruges for
ecclesiastical needlework.
A banner he designed
while there received a gold
medal at the Exhibition of
1862; and in 1867 the
civic authorities at Bruges
awarded him a medal for a
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decorative scheme for the Chapel of the Sacred
Blood. Pie returned to England with his family
in the seventies.

By the recent death of Mr. John William Buxton
Knight, British landscape art loses a distinguished
exponent. He was a painter of singular sincerity
and a subtle power of observation, which found its
expression in a very vigorous style.

Arrangements have been made for the United
Arts Club to be carried on at Rumpelmayer’s, in
St. James’s Street, where excellent premises have
been secured. We are glad to note that, with the
assistance of sympathisers and the forbearance of
the superior landlords of the former club premises,
the pictures seized by the latter for rent owing by
the Club’s landlords have been released.


BUST IN MARBLE BY AUGUSTE RODIN

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