International studio (44.1911)

Studio-Talk


WEBBINGTON HOUSE, SOMERSETSHIRE

(See i>. 143)

E. J. MAY, F.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECT

STUDIO-TALK

(From Our Own Correspondents.)

IONDON.—Last month we referred in this
place to the exhibition at the Goupil
Gallery in Regent Street of works by
—Mr. Walter Greaves and to the artist’s

relation with Whistler. In view of the great
amount of attention which this exhibition has

attracted, the accompanying reproductions of some
of the works included therein will be of interest

to those of our readers who have not had an
opportunity of visiting the exhibition itself.

The new Copyright Bill introduced by the
Government has, after being read a second time in
the House of Commons, been sent upstairs to
Grand Committee, where a large number of amend-
ments have been raised and debated. An im-
portant modification has been introduced into the
clause which fixes the term of copyright at fifty
years after the author’s death, a proviso being
added which permits reproduction at the expira-
tion of twenty-five years on payment of a 10 per
cent, royalty, which is definitely assured to the
author’s widow and children.

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At the Baillie Gallery Miss Pamela Coleman
Smith has been exhibiting leaves from a sketch-
book which she takes to concerts and in which
she follows with a brush of colour her musical
impressions. Of course the interest here is less
with the method than with the success in re-
cording something that will evoke again for
others impressions similar to those received from
music. The classical instance of such success
was Beardsley’s illustration to the Ballade III.
of Chopin, but in an exhibition in a room ad-
joining Miss Coleman Smith’s at the Baillie
Gallery Mr. James Pryde had given in a series
of paintings—though only one claimed the
musical title—just such an interpretation of the