International studio (44.1911)

Studio- Talk

Beerbohm, however, who between them have
certainly covered the ground in every direction,
have shown this not to be so.
With the close of the picture season several of
the galleries filled up their walls with etchings.
Messrs Dowdeswell, in their show of modern
original etchings, included some very interesting
plates by the Hon. Walter James, Messrs. Ernest
Lumsden, Randolph Schwabe, J. Hamilton
Mackenzie, Oliver Hall, Albany E. Howarth,
Frank Mason, and others. Messrs P. and D.Colnaghi
and Obach exhibited a collection of drawings and
■etchings by Prof. Alphonse Legros, which was
■comprehensive and as characteristic as admirers
•of the great draughtsman could wish.
At the Baillie Gallery there is a choice collection
of Japanese colour prints on view in juxtaposition
with Chinese paintings. It is very interesting to
compare the matter-of-fact, intellectual vivacity of
the Japanese and their exquisitely trained sense of

beauty in the incidental with the more sombre,
brooding, emotional quality of Chinese paintings.
All the native qualities of Chinese painting, of
colour and of mood, seem, so far as we can gather,
intensified by the effect of time in the very direction
aimed at by the painters themselves.

At the Fine Art Society we have had an exhibi-
tion of fantasy lately in Mr. A. Duncan Carse’s fans—
not another of the many attempts with the Conder
fan tradition, which, by the way, was too individual
to be successfully passed on. Mr. Carse’s witty
fancy makes his designs sometimes very attractive.

We are reproducing herewith a water-colour
sketch, Harvest Time—Evening, by Mr. E. Davies,
an excellent example of economy and simplicity of
treatment of a quite difficult theme which the
artist’s sketch-book has furnished. For the past
fourteen years Mr. Davies has been a member of
the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour,


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BY R. GWELO GOODMAN