International studio (49.1913)

Studio-Talk

the Mirk, and some small canvases by Mr. Sheard
are the most interesting features.
Miss Sylvia Gosse is an artist who uses the
pencil with great delicacy and whose drawings have
the peculiar fascination which so often belongs to
the realism of imaginative artists when they prefer
realistic subjects to what are generally called
imaginative ones. Miss Gosse has lately shown a
collection of her pencil drawings with some litho-
graphs and etchings at the Carfax Gallery.
At the Baillie Gallery exhibitions of Mr. Arthur
Streeton’s work and that of Miss Estelle Rice have
recently been held. Mr. Streeton exhibited bold
and direct impressions controlled by a highly
conscious regard for decorative composition. The
artist has the traveller’s gift of appreciating to the
full differences in the character of landscape in the
scenes which he depicts in various parts of Europe.
Miss Rice makes everything in nature conform
to a fine conception of what its colour and charac-

ter should be in her painting. Her exhibition was
very well hung and we have not seen the Post-
Impressionist aims which she avows presented so
advantageously in any similar exhibition.
Lovers of Turner’s water-colours, and they are
legion, should not miss seeing the magnificent
collection of over one hundred drawings now on
view at Messrs. Agnew’s galleries, 43 Old Bond
Street, in aid of the Artists’ General Benevolent
Institution. Here are to be seen many of the
master’s finest works executed in the medium in
which his art found its most perfect expression.
It is impossible to consider here in detail the
numerous superb drawings in this notable exhibi-
tion. They include such glorious and well-known
masterpieces as The Red Rigi, The Blue Rigi,
Splugen Pass, Crook of the Lune, and several of the
Farnley Hall drawings, many of which appeared in
the volume on that collection published by The
Studio last year. Among the earlier works being
shown at Messrs. Agnew’s The Archbishop's Palace,


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