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Studio-Talk
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Studio-Talk
has been holding a one-man show. This artist
possesses a delicate sense of colour and precision
of execution, but except in his more direct pieces,
such as The Harbour, Port Credit, these qualities
are somewhat concealed by more artificial qualities
of picture-making.
The painting by Mr. Joseph Simpson which we
here reproduce in colour was one of the outstand-
ing features of the recent exhibition of the Royal
Society of British Artists, to which we referred in
our Studio-Talk for May.
The Pastel Society has not for some years so
justified its existence as it does this year. For a
change there is plenty of work shown which could
not have been effected so well in any other medium
as in pastel. This especially might be said of those
two gifted pastelists Mr. Gwelo Goodman and Miss
A. Airy. Miss Mabelle Unwin, Mr. W. G. von
Glehn, Miss Wyn George, Mr. Thos. W. Hammond,
Mrs. Julia Creamer, Miss A. G. Pike, Miss Florence
Small, Mrs. Gwendolen Gibbon, and Mr. W. L.
Bruckman are also executants in the fascinating
medium who should be particularly remembered in
connection with the recent show.
At the Leicester Gallery the exhibition of Lady
Butler’s famous picture The Roll Call, lent by His
Majesty the King, was the feature of an exhibition
of her work. This painting was exhibited in the
Royal Academy in 1874, and purchased by Queen
Victoria; few paintings have made in their day so
great an impression. That the picture possesses
some of the qualities in art that endure is shown
by the fact that it is still impressive in its formula-
tion of black and grey, and quality of paint.
The exhibition of designs for mural painting and
for the decoration of schools and other buildings
held at Crosby Hall during June was on the whole
disappointing, notwithstanding the presence of a few
interesting contributions. It has been admitted by
designers of experience in this field that little that
is satisfactory can be effected unless the decorator
addresses himself direct to the space to be filled ;
“sunrise on the fletschhorn”
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FROM THE OIL PAINTING BY C. M. GERE
has been holding a one-man show. This artist
possesses a delicate sense of colour and precision
of execution, but except in his more direct pieces,
such as The Harbour, Port Credit, these qualities
are somewhat concealed by more artificial qualities
of picture-making.
The painting by Mr. Joseph Simpson which we
here reproduce in colour was one of the outstand-
ing features of the recent exhibition of the Royal
Society of British Artists, to which we referred in
our Studio-Talk for May.
The Pastel Society has not for some years so
justified its existence as it does this year. For a
change there is plenty of work shown which could
not have been effected so well in any other medium
as in pastel. This especially might be said of those
two gifted pastelists Mr. Gwelo Goodman and Miss
A. Airy. Miss Mabelle Unwin, Mr. W. G. von
Glehn, Miss Wyn George, Mr. Thos. W. Hammond,
Mrs. Julia Creamer, Miss A. G. Pike, Miss Florence
Small, Mrs. Gwendolen Gibbon, and Mr. W. L.
Bruckman are also executants in the fascinating
medium who should be particularly remembered in
connection with the recent show.
At the Leicester Gallery the exhibition of Lady
Butler’s famous picture The Roll Call, lent by His
Majesty the King, was the feature of an exhibition
of her work. This painting was exhibited in the
Royal Academy in 1874, and purchased by Queen
Victoria; few paintings have made in their day so
great an impression. That the picture possesses
some of the qualities in art that endure is shown
by the fact that it is still impressive in its formula-
tion of black and grey, and quality of paint.
The exhibition of designs for mural painting and
for the decoration of schools and other buildings
held at Crosby Hall during June was on the whole
disappointing, notwithstanding the presence of a few
interesting contributions. It has been admitted by
designers of experience in this field that little that
is satisfactory can be effected unless the decorator
addresses himself direct to the space to be filled ;
“sunrise on the fletschhorn”
146
FROM THE OIL PAINTING BY C. M. GERE