International studio (40.1910)

Studio- Talk

SKETCH MODEL OF ONE OF THE TWO MINIATURE GARDENS SENT FROM JAPAN TO THE JAPAN-BRITISH

EXHIBITION AT SHEPHERD'S BUSH

developed with her skill, and her pictures are not well-known illustrators as Messrs. H. M. Brock,

now to be confused with those of anyone else. Cyrus Cuneo, Gunning King, and work by Sir

Genuine feeling for her subject is always expressed Charles Holroyd, and Mr. James Paterson.

in her methods, and this is saying a great deal for -

the method in anyone's art. The Chelsea Arts Club Costume Ball at the
- Royal Albert Hall last month was an event of no

At the Fine Art Society's Mr. Louis Ginnett's little significance. Its character was unique, and
cabinet pictures disclosed many delightful charac- in beauty it was probably unrivalled by anything of
teristics, most evident, perhaps, in interior painting. a similar kind for at least a century. Almost the
He has the gift of composing attractively and Renaissance conception of the artist's part in life
handling his pigment pleasantly. has been revived by this invasion of the hum-
- drum of London. The club counts among its

The Old Dudley Art Society still continues in members all the most brilliant modernist painters

the upward course on which it embarked when a in England, and by the immense success of this

few years ago it strove to get out of the rut into venture artist charities will extensively benefit,

which it seemed to have fallen. This year the -

President, Mr. Burleigh Bruhl, exhibits, as formerly, Amongst the most characteristic exhibits sent

some of the most successful work, and in the to the approaching Japan-British Exhibition by

present exhibition he is supported ably by such the City of Tokyo will be two miniature gardens

artists, to name only a few, as Messrs. Edgar specially designed for that purpose and carried

Downs, Lawson Wood, J. T. Watts, Geo. C. out under the supervision of the master of the

Haite, H. L. Dell, W. S. Stacey, E. Jex-Blake, " Taikoyen," a well-known nursery garden in Shiba

F. Bradshaw-Isherwood, F. J. Aldridge, S. B. de Park, Tokyo, which has long been celebrated for

La Bere, and the Misses Gertrude Peel and its artistic manipulation of miniature landscape.

L. Kemp-Welch. One of these, the sketch for which is here repro-

- duced, consists of a scene depicting a rocky

At the New Dudley Gallery there was a most promontory projecting into the open sea. On a

effective exhibition of drawings by the Pencil corner of the promontory - there is a tea-house,

Society. It included among its exhibits the bril- and to the right of it a waiting house for the

liant work of Mr. George Belcher, studies by such guests, from which stepping-stones lead to the
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