International studio (59.1916)

Studio-Talk

has succeeded in bringing together a representative
collection of prints and drawings, which afford a
striking demonstration of the interest now being
taken in Dublin in black-and-white work. Mr.
Crampton Walker’s design for a woodcut Snow
(reproduced on p. 55) shows a sense of rhythm
and pattern and much vivacity of expression, and
his charcoal study The Falls of Tummel is full of
light and atmosphere. Mr. George Atkinson’s
powers as an etcher are admirably displayed in
The Devil's Bridge, Settignano. He also exhibits
some delicate pencil studies and a charming wood-
cut Design for a Cot, one of a series of designs for
a set of cottage furniture now being carried out in
the Irish technical schools. Mr. Jack Yeats’s
virile line is seen in his set of original drawings
for a broadside; The
Canvas Man and The Old
Car-driver are especially
effective in their strong
feeling for characterisa
tion. The old streets and
bridges of Dublin have
attracted several of the
exhibitors, amongst them
Miss Myra Hughes, an
accomplished etcher, and
Mr. B. McGuinness, who
shows a pleasant drawing
of a picturesque old
street, with its stalls and
open market, and the
tower of St. Patrick’s
Cathedral in the distance.
'Phis street has since been
re-built, and altered out of
all recognition. Amongst
the other exhibitors are
Mr. Gerald Wakeman,
whose pen-and ink draw¬
ings are full of vitality and
feeling for the expressive
quality of line; Miss
Estella Solomons, whose
sandground etching Near
Dublin is very delicate in
treatment; Lieut. Robert
Gibbings, whose woodcut
The Retreat from Serbia
is strong and original in
design; and Miss Dorothy
Cox, who shows a good
charcoal drawing Sheep
in the Rain. E. D.

EDINBURGH. — Among the younger
Scottish painters Mr. Charles H. Mackie
occupies an outstanding position as a
colourist. Fertile in ideas, he is attached
to no school of painting, but has worked out the
problems of colour and composition for himself
since his emergence from the student days. No
thinker can discard the heritage of the ages, and
Mr. Mackie would be the last man of whom that
could be said, but on the other hand no one who
aspires to express his ideas, either in literature,
music, painting, or sculpture, can suffer any con-
vention or academic canon to circumscribe the
mode in which he feels that he can most fully
express himself. Mr. Mackie in his earlier work
may have given colour to the suggestion that


CHARCOAL DRAWING BY DOROTHY COX

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