International studio (53.1914)

Studio-Talk

“AFTERNOON light” OIL PAINTING BY W. LEE HANKEY


we used so often to delight in seeing, and he will
shortly be exhibiting at the Baillie Gallery a series
of vigorous and sunny impressions of outdoor
life in Spain, France, and Belgium. Rich, full
colour and bold pattern characterise these latest
productions of the artist, of which we illustrate
three admirable examples. The brilliance and
movement of The Performing Bear make it a
canvas of great interest, and both Afternoon Light
and Entrance to Gipsy Quarter, Granada, are
typical of the joyous feeling that inspires his work
in general. An unusual composition, restrained and
beautiful in colour, is The Shepherdess, which will
figure in the exhibition, and another memorable
work is a charming twilight effect, a group of
Concarneau fisherwomen. Besides oil-paintings
Mr. Lee Hankey is showing a number of most
attractive water-colours on linen. Here we find
the same charm of colour added to a peculiarly
beautiful quality of technique, giving to his works in
this medium a special attractiveness of their own.
Mr. Lee Hankey is a purist in the use of water-
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colour, and these delightful productions deserve a
great success. _
The Society of Mural Decorators and Painters in
Tempera has just held its annual exhibition in the
new hall which the Art Workers’ Guild has built in
the rear of No. 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury. The
hall, designed by Mr. Troup primarily for the
periodical gatherings of the Guild and its offshoot
the Junior Art Workers’ Guild, is excellently adapted
for such an exhibition as that which has just been held
in it. Only a comparatively small proportion of the
entire membership contributed to it, but the collec-
tion comprised numerous items of unusual interest,
such as Mr. Cayley Robinson’s two designs for the
entrance to Middlesex Hospital, Comfort the Orphan
and Rejoice with the Happy; Mrs. Stokes’s charm-
ing cartoon in tempera, Ehret die Frauen; Mr.
Reginald Frampton’s Our Lady of Promise and
The Crucifixion, both in spirit fresco over plaster of
Paris on wood ; Sir Charles Holroyd’s Venus
lamenting the death of Adonis • Mr. J. 1). Batten’s