International studio (60.1916/1917)

Studio-Talk

Apart from the small group of pictures which bore
witness to Mr, Teed’s unobtrusive but sincere
art, the Susannah and the Elders of Mr. Frank
Brangwyn, the President, somewhat similar to the
version of the same subject which we reproduced
in colour in February 1911, and a few other works,
the exhibition contained little of outstanding
interest, some of those whose pictures we have
on former occasions noted with satisfaction being
either not represented at all or showing work
which compared unfavourably with their earlier
achievement.

As regards the International Society, which too
has some of its prominent members on active
service, it is, of course, hardly necessary to say
that the current display at the Grosvenor Gallery
again lacks the international character of ante-
bellum shows, for though among the exhibitors
are several with foreign names, they are all or

interesting portrait-studies in pencil. Apart from
portraiture the exhibition does not offer many
figure-subjects of outstanding note, but we would
mention especially Mr. F. H. Newbery’s In Lyon-
esse, Mr. Russell Flint’s Woodman and Hama-
dryad, Mr. P. Bertieri’s Japonais a la Guitare,
Mrs. Laura Knight’s Le Carnaval, Mr. Glyn
Philpot’s Laocoon, Mr. Strang’s In Wonderland
and Decoration of Ceres, and by way of anti-
thesis to these two works both in method and
subject, Miss Frances Ffodgkins’ forceful study of
plebeian physiognomy, Unshatterable, Mr. Harold
Knight’s Early Morning and Mallows, both admir-
able examples of plein-air painting. Mr. Orpen
is represented only by an early work, The Play Scene
in “ Hamlet,” a souvenir of his student days and
as such certainly a remarkable accomplishment.
There is little that is noteworthy in landscape
painting beyond Mr. Cameron’s Cruachan Ben,
Mr. Lamorna Birch’s Tregiffian, Mr. Gere’s The

most of them the names
in the United Kingdom,
exhibition rest chiefly with
Mr. Ambrose McEvoy,who
shows four portraits in oil
and one in water-colour,
the most important both
as regards scale and as
indicative of the artist’s
very personal methods
being that of Her Grace
the Duchess of Marlborough,
though in respect of colour
we prefer the half-length
of Mrs. Spender Clay.
Other notable essays in
portraiture are shown by
Mr. Gerald Kelly, Mr.
Howard Somerville,
Mr. P. H. de Laszlo
{Study of Two Indian
Officers, reproduced in our
issue of August last), Mr.
William Strang {Panchita
Zorolla, a striking study in
yellow and black), Mr.
Oswald Birley {Brigadier-
General E. Morton, one of
the very few military por-
traits shown on this occa-
sion), Mr. Georges Claeys
{Miss Montgomerie), and
Mr. G. W. Lambert, who
has sent half a dozen very

of artists domiciled
The honours of the

Slopes of Mottarone, Mr. Peppercorn’s Early
Morning (a fine sea-coast study), Mr. Oliver Hall’s

“ MALLOWS

(International Society)

BY HAROLD KNIGHT