International studio (57.1915/1916)

Studio-Talk


“BATTERSEA BRIDGE”

FROM AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH BY J. MCA. SMILEY

severely overtaxed the space that the arrangement
had, in some respects, to suffer. Next time a
larger hall ought to be secured. B. J. C.
DUBLIN.—A course of lectures in
practical lithcgraj hy has recently been
delivered at the Dublin Metropolitan
School of Art by Mr. F. Ernest Jackson,
one of the founders of the Senefelder Club. These
lectures—the second set given by Mr. Jackson
at the Schcol—were arranged with the object
of encouraging the teaching of lithography in the
various art and technical schools in Ireland, and
were attended by a number of Art Masters from
all parts of the country. Interesting work has
been done by several of these men, amongst whom
may be specially mentioned Mr. J. MCA. Smiley,
Mr. A. R. Baker, and Mr. James Stoupe, all of
Belfast, and Mr. William Whelan of Dublin, who
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has recently made a special study of some of the
picturesque old courtways of Dublin now rapidly
disappearing under the pressure of the sanitary
authority. It is hoped that the Irish printers will
take advantage of the very promising work now
being produced in several of the Irish schools,
notably in Dublin and Belfast. E. D.

ROME.—The National Gallery of Modern
Art has now been reopened to the
public in the new building erected in
the Valle Giulia from the designs of the
architect Cesare Bazzani. The Gallery was in-
stituted in the year 1883 primarily for the purpose
of bringing together the works of modern art
acquired from time to time by the Ministry of
Public Instruction, which had hitherto been dis-
tributed in the corridors at the Ministry itself or
grouped together in the Aula Magna of the Collegio