International studio (40.1910)

Studio- Talk

in the lights, and finding
old qualities which he
once made delicious in
the grey stream under the
light grey sky. One of
the best pictures in the
exhibition is Mrs. Laura
Knight's Newlyn Old
Harbour. Montreuil,
Fra?ice, represents the
sometimes great mastery
of Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton
in landscape, while other
pictures of his here suffer
from the forcing of the
very effects and colours
which, with greater re-
ticence, bring to his art

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success. There are fan-
tasies in the exhibition,

be made of Lilith, a beautiful work in sculpture, supplying a light note, by Mr. C. Shepperson and
by Mr. John Tweed. Mr. Rackham ; a notable colour success, Place des

- Moutons, Tunis, by Mr. H. S. Hopwood ; and an

It is not given to every Society to surpass itself impression full of beauty is the Kentish Home-
in successive exhibitions, to have an always height- stead, by Mr. Herbert Alexander. The Miracle of
ening standard in the place of a fluctuating one. Roses is a departure for Mr. H. S. Crocket, invit-
This, however, seems to be the case of late with the ing congratulations. The Gate of Paradise, by
Old Water-Colour Society, whose summer exhibition Mr. Walter Bayes, is a design of much distinction,
is now open. Mr. Sargent is represented by two Mr. Mathew Hale's tender and beautiful St. Mark's,
Venetian water-colours, miraculous as ever in their Venice, though small, is a picture to be remem
skill and in the analytical
vision they display, but
rather unemotional for a
Society which, on the
whole, has always shown
a wholesome tendency
towards emotion. The
President, Sir Ernest
Waterlow, R.A., contri-
butes this year some
country scenes, as English
and as full of charm and
feeling as ever. Mr. David
Murray has gone abroad
and far afield, and shows
some very interesting re-
sults. By the Dancing
Kills shows Mr. J. W.
North, A.R.A., freeing
himself a little from un
pleasant browns in the
shadows and somewhat ''

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