International studio (45.1912)

Studio- Talk

The Goupil Gallery Salon
for 1911 perhaps surpasses
previous exhibitions of the


STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
LONDON.—The Royal Society of Painters in
Water Colours are holding their Winter
Exhibition, which closes on December 19.
Some one artist generally makes these ex-
hibitions witness before everything else to his own
mastery in the art which it is the profession of the
society to uphold. Sometimes it is Mr. Sargent
(who is not exhibiting this time), sometimes Mr.
Aiming Bell, sometimes Mr. Clausen; this season
perhaps it is Mrs. Laura Knight, whose Children
Playing, The Deck Chair, and Candlelight are
remarkable examples of her brilliant Impressionism.
A very interesting feature of this exhibition are the
beautiful pencil drawings of Mr. J. AV. North, A. R. A.
Mr. Clausen is in his finest vein. Mr. Charles
Sims cannot be said to be at his best this year;
but a great success is achieved by Mr. Cayley
Robinson in his TFneas and his Chieftains after
the Fall of Troy. Its one fault, explained perhaps
by his recent association with the theatre, is that
the pose of the figures is more in keeping with the
convention of the footlights
than that of painting, which
allows more intimate ex-
pression of gesture. Pictures
which must be noticed by
visitors are Morning: on the
Wye, by Mr. Eyre Walker;
On a Buckinghamshire
Common, by Mr. Alfred
Parsons, R.A. ; Green and
Silver, by Mr. Walter Crane;
Plumpton Mill, Sussex, by
Mr. J. G. Dollman ; Elphin-
stone Tower, by Mr. Robert
Little ; In the Market-place,
Biskra (skied), by Mr. PL S.
Hopwood ; The Flasket, by
Mr. Henry E. Crocket;
Stocks, by Miss A. M. Swan ;
and The Frog, by Mr. Edwin
Alexander. Mr. Walter
Bayes’s work should be
studied, and Mr. Walter
A Vest’s landscapes mark an
interesting departure from
his familiar genre.

kind. Mr William Nicholson and Mr. Augustus
John are to be seen this year in full force. The
curious pleasure provided for the eye in passing from
the highly strung manipulation of colour in Mr.
John’s panels to Mr. Nicholson’s The Golden Valley
is a master-stroke upon the part of the hanging
committee. Mr. Nicholson has never been better
than in this picture; its intellectual presentment
is coupled with the particular vein of sentiment
which most inspires him. Farther along the wall
is his Zinnias, in our opinion one of the greatest
flower paintings of modern times. Mr. Walter
Greaves’s Chelsea Regatta is replete with the detail
which in his early work he had a peculiar gift in
handling, the whole brought into harmony by deft
touches that play over the surface and consolidate
the grouping. Other pictures which should not
be overlooked are The Old Mill House, by Mr.
Mervyn Laurence; An Old Man, by Mr. A. A.
Wolmark; Mr. W. G. von Glehn’s The Mill Race
—Essex; Mr. G. AV. Lambert’s Souvenir de
Noel', Mr. Jose AA^eiss’s Poplars and Pool; Mr.
AV. J. Leech’s The White Bridge, Venice, and A
Circle, Venice; Mr. S. J. Peploe’s Tulips; Mr.

(Goupil Gallery Salon)

“zinnias”

BY WILLIAM NICHOLSON

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