International studio (52.1914)

Studio- Talk

men may see and judge for themselves as to the
value of modern departures from accepted ideas.
There has never hitherto, however, been an impor-
tation so arresting whatever may be its ultimate
effect in influencing Scottish art. The most im-
portant of these exhibitors were Paul Gauguin,
Ruigi Russolo, G. Serusier, Paul Cezanne, Henri
Matisse, Van Gogh, G. Severini, J. D. Fergusson,
and Duncan Grant. That some of the younger men
are not unaffected by these modern developments
was seen in Mr. S. J. Peploe’s fruit and flower
studies, which are a limited and tentative essay in
Cubist practice, and Mr. Stanley Cursiter’s frankly
Cubist presentation of the busy scene at the west
end of Princes Street.

Of the four hundred and sixty-one exhibits three
hundred and seventy-seven were works in oil and
water-colour, the remainder consisting to a small
extent of sculpture and largely of applied art in the

form of ironwork, jewellery, enamels, and pottery.
Among the oil-paintings, Mr. Hornel’s Springtime
in the Woodlands with its merry bare-footed children
breathed the joyous spirit in the richness of its colour
orchestration and the full harmony of its design.
Mr. Robert Noble contributed a beautiful meadow
landscape mostly in cool colour with a line of
golden corn-field in mid-distance, Mr. W. M. Fraser
a piece of river-side scenery with a group of trees
after the style of Corot, and Mr. Arthur H. Jenkins
a picture of a convent garden at Perugia that is
beautifully co-ordinated in colour. Other notable
landscapes were a series of four by the late Mr. J.
Campbell Noble, a warm friend to the society from
its inception, a sunlit farmyard scene in France by
Mr. C. H.Mackie, a small but very charming Italian
landscape by the same artist and a view of Cramond
Ferry interestingly treated by Mr. Mason Hunter.
The Chairman of the Society, Mr. David Alison,