International studio (57.1915/1916)

Studio-Talk

man’s genius. The bituminous shadows in the
painting have unfortunately cracked, but the
brilliant flood of light in the centre of the design
.and the exquisite passages of colour in the green
bed-curtains and red arm-chair give an extra-
ordinary interest to this strange and fascinating
picture.

At Messrs. Colnaghi and Obach’s it was interest-
ing and instructive to see examples by our best
living draughtsmen hanging by the side of works
by certain deceased masters. Here were fine things
by Mr. Bone, Mr. Cameron, Mr. John, Professor
Holmes, Mr. McBey, Mr. Robins, and others, to
be seen in pleasant company with works by Millet,
Daubigny, Monticelli, Corot, Legros, Swan, Jacque,
the whole forming altogether a group of examples
whose sincerity and accomplishment could not fail
to appeal strongly to all collectors and amateurs of
fine drawings.

While examples of draughtsmanship have formed
a large part of the interest in recent exhibitions,
a pleasant departure was the exhibition of Small
Works by British Sculptors which was held last
month in a gallery generously loaned by Messrs.
Waging and Gillow, and had for its object the
■creation of a fund for the assistance of sculptors
who are sufferers by the war. The exhibits were
pleasantly arranged and, for the most part, were to
be seen under favourable conditions. Many of the
works were familiar as having previously appeared
•at the Royal Academy or elsewhereand some
have already been reproduced in our pages. Space
■does not admit of our referring to all, among the
one hundred and ninety-four works, which deserve
a mention, but we must single out for special notice
Sir W. Goscombe John’s Boy at Play, a small
■edition of the work in the Tate Gallery ; Mr. Albert
Toft’s Mother and Child, and the Study, which
we reproduced recently; Mr. S. Nicholson Babb’s
.Slumberland; Mr. A. C. Lucchesi’s Myrtle's Altar;
.Miss Jessie Lawson’s Daphne ; Mr. W. Reid Dick’s
The Catapult-, Mr. Alexander Fisher’s framed
/relief in silver and enamel The Betrothal -, and
Mr. F. Halnon’s Dutch Maiden. Mr. Anning Bell
.sent two of his coloured plaster reliefs, and well-
.known sculptors, such as Mr. Hamo Thornycroft,
Mr. W. Reynolds-Stephens, Countess Gleichen,
Mr. Alfred Drury, Professor Lanteri, Mr. Richard
Garbe, Mr. H. Pegram, Mr. Bayes, Mr. Colton,
.and Sir Thomas Brock, contributed to an inter-
■esting ensemble, which also included examples of

good work by Mr. A. G. Walker, Mr. Mark Rogers,
Miss K. Tizard, Miss E. M. Rope, Mrs. Stabler,
Mr. John Angel, and Mr. T. Tyrrell, among
several more.

The Senefelder Club held its sixth exhibi-
tion during November and December at the
Leicester Galleries, and the attractive collection of
prints shown comprised delicate studies of Spanish
Gipsies by Mr. J. Kerr Lawson; a number of
admirable prints by Miss Ethel Gabain, especially
The Mirror with its accents of rich black, and the
delicate study of a girl in bridal attire, The Wedding
Morning-, the cleverly drawn Books by Mr.
Copley; and a number from Mr. Pennell’s Castles
in the Air series. The dexterous sunlit work of
Mr. Harry Becker, beautiful drawings of Bridg-
north by Mr. Oliver Hall, examples by Mr. F.
Ernest Jackson, especially his Lay Member print
for 1913, Church of St. Aignan, Chartres-, Mr.
Anthony R. Barker’s prints, in particular The
Wind; and some characteristic lithographs by
Mr. C. Shannon were other features of interest.
Mr. Spencer Pryse ranks as one of our best litho-
graphers, his graceful two-colour print in green and

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