International studio (41.1910)

Studio-Talk

"LES ROSES" TAPESTRY DESIGNED BY JULES CHERET
EXECUTED BY THE GOBELINS MANUFACTORY
[See Pans Studio- Talk, p. 62)

the very best that is put before the people of the
East End in the name of Art. Not only does
the list of exhibitors' names sum up all that is
most forcible in contemporary work, but these
names are as often as not represented by the very
pictures which have been most expressive of their
individual influence, as in the case of Mr. William
Rothenstein's famous work, The Doll's House, a
reproduction of which appears in our pages this
month, or The Three Misses Vickers, one of the
earliest commissions Mr. Sargent executed in this
country. Many of the artists are represented in
an early and a late phase, making possible an
appreciation of their development; thus there is
Mr. Charles Shannon's early Mother and Child, to
compare with his later work, The Lady in a Winged
ITat (a portrait of Mrs. Scott, wife of the Explorer).
No one stands the test of such comparisons better
than Mr. Shannon, in whose portrait just named
we feel a profounder sense of beauty and nobler
depth of colour than in his earlier work. This
painting belongs to the collection brought together

by Sir Hugh Lane for the Johannesburg Gallery,
the nucleus of which is exhibited with the rest
of the paintings arranged for exhibition by the
Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. We
cannot withhold the fact, and it is the sincerest
compliment to Sir Hugh Lane's selection, that we
look upon such pictures as the Shannon portrait
and Mr. Wilson Steer's Corfe Castle apparently
for the last time, with the greatest regret that it
should be so.

At the Leicester Gallery the important feature
last month has been the exhibition of Mr. Charles
Sims' paintings. The technical facility of this
painter is extreme; there is a happy fluency about
his methods that aids the gay spirit it expresses.
But an artist's brush can run away with him. Such
a thing is known, but never known to end up well,
and, after all, when the hand is insubordinate,
whether in failing or in a too riotous ease, mastery
is absent, for that is a mental attitude which gives
dignity to everything. Everyone watches with
interest for the next development in this artist
of remarkable powers. At the same Galleries a
very interesting debut in water colours was also
made last month, by Mr. Henry Simpson, with
scenes of the East.

An exhibition which calls for particular notice
was Mr. Glyn \V. Philpot's at the Baillie Galleries.
Mr. Philpot's art is still a little self-conscious,
except in a few sketches where perhaps for a
moment he forgets the exhibition public. But
his natural genius is winning its way through as
something natively strong, and asserting itself in
results which in some instances might be placed
beside some of the best painting of to-day.

Mr. T. C. Gotch has been exhibiting, lately,
children's portraits and child pictures at the New
Dudley Galleries. These included The Child
Enthroned, a work which attracted attention in the
Royal Academy some years ago. The qualities
of the painter's art, his clear and delicate touch,
and love of carefully wrought ornamentation, are
well known, and but for an inclination to a some-
what photographic convention in the placement
of the head on the paper, some of the smaller
sketches were singularly happy.

Another exhibition to be noted was that of the
water-colours of Mr. F. A. W. T. Armstrong at
the Ryder Gallery; and it is time this painter's
oil-paintings were seen together in town. A resi-

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