International studio (42.1910)

Studio-Talk

success, is Mr. L. Campbell Taylor's
picture, called simply Interior.

The figure, Will o' the Wisp, here
reproduced, is by Miss Theodora
Cowan, an Australian sculptress who
received her training in Florence.
Miss Cowan, who is now settled in
England, has executed busts of Sir
Edmund Barton, the Australian states-
man, and Professor Flinders Petrie,
the eminent Egyptologist, both of
which have been illustrated in these
pages. At the Franco-British Exhi-
bition she received a gold medal for
her work.__

The annual exhibition of toys
which is always such an attractive
feature at the Baillie Gallery in Brook
Street for a few weeks before Christ-
«'will-o'-the-wisp" by theodora cowan mas, promises this year to be fully

as interesting as on previous occa-
sions. In anticipation of the event
it only makes criticism upon any but the broadest we give here a few illustrations showing some of
lines impossible. The hanging is well-done, and the toys from Austria which will be on view,
except for the tucking away of a little gem, The The designing and making of toys have come to
Dining Room, by Mr. Arthur Streeton, it would be a recognised branch of applied art in that
have lived up to the Sargent and the pictures by
Mr. Glyn Philpot in the big room. Pictures which
invite consideration besides these are Mother and
Sons, by Mr. James Quinn; Sketch of the Painter's
Mother, by Mr. Algernon Talmage; The Wine-
taster, by Miss Anna Airy; The Black Cat, by
Mr. Cyrus Cuneo ; The Blind Man, by Mr. Frank
Craig ; September, by Mr. T. C. Dugdale; Italian
Soldier, by Mr. Eric H. Kennington; W. Reynolds
Stephen, Esq., by Mr. T. Young Hunter; Apples,
by Mr. A. F. W. Hayward; The Paisley Shawl,
by Mr. Oswald Birley; Sketch—The Patchwork
Dressing Gown, by Mr. Rowley Leggett; Bar-
gaining, by Miss Flora M. Reid ; The Storm Cloud,
by Mr. Arthur Friedenson; Summer-time, by Mr.
James L. Henry; Carrick Roads, by Mr. J. S.
Aumonier; Roses and Delphiniums, by Mr. J.
Moppett Perkins : Peaches, Nuts, and Grapes, by
Mr. Henry Thomas Schaffer; Distant Thoughts,
by Mr. Carlton A. Smith ; Caprice, by Mr. W.
Russell Flint; At the Head of the Stairs, by Mr.
W. H. Margetson; Water Lilies, by Mr. W. B. E.
Ranken. There is a delicate little interior here
by Mr. Denys Wells, whose work also calls attention
to itself this year at the R.B.A. Another interior

painted with sympathy, and consequently with toy turkey, carved in wood by prof. f. barwig
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