International studio (50.1913)

Studio-Talk


( Roy al Scottish Academy)

“st. bride”

BY JOHN DUNCAN, A.R.S.A.

another artist who has this year excelled all
previous work is James Cadenhead with The Hush
of Twilight. This view of the silent hills with
the enveloping atmosphere of the coming night

is a highly poetic render-
ing and yet in all that is
basic bears the impress of
sincerity and truth. Similar
in its fine realisation of
atmosphere is W. M.
Frazer’s A Hazy Morning
in the Fens, which Sir
Thomas Dewar has gifted
to the City of Perth. A
March landscape by
George Houston is very
delicately phrased, and J.
Lawton Wingate in A
Moorland Sunset gives one
of those intimately personal
impressions of nature that
he so convincingly realises.
Other notable landscapes
are W. D. McKay’s
Summer Day at Kil-
spindie, acquired for the
Scottish Modern Arts
Association collection,
Robert Noble’s harvest scene and his The Shim-
mering River with its liquid mirroring of over-
hanging willows, R. B. Nisbet’s almost monochro-
matic moonlight scene, W. S. MacGeorge’s The