Studio: international art (2.1894)

Glasgow Institute Exhibition

is evident that the exhibition is one of the best
held in the Institute for some years. The collec-
tion embraces many notable works, and in the
case of the local contributions much that shows the
healthy art vitality in the younger men. Portraiture
is represented by a few artistic works full of charac-
ter. Mr. James Guthrie's able Archbishop of Glas-
gow, and his Miss Wilson ; Mr. E. A. Walton's Miss
Aitken, and Mr. John Lavery's charming Portrait
Group; Mr. Joseph Henderson's large Sir John
Muir, painted for the Corporation, and Mr. R. C.
Crawford's strongly painted Mrs. Holms Kerr, are
especially noteworthy. Clever work is also shown
by Messrs. Harrington, Mason, D. Y. Cameron,
P. W. Orr, W. J. Yule, and W. G. Gillies.

Of figure subjects and landscapes there are a
number of fine canvases. One of the best and
most satisfying pictures in the exhibition is Mr. A.
Roche's Idyl, a composition particularly brilliant
in its light colour scheme and technique. Another
large canvas, in a light open-air tone, is Mr. William
Stott's A Summer's Day, a realistic and accom-
plished work. Entirely differing from these in its
strong colour and weird imaginativeness is The
Red Fisherman, by Mr. J. E. Christie. The quiet
artistic quality and feeling of Mr. Henry Muhr-
mann's work is well seen in Trees, Hampstead
Heath. Mr. J. M. Swan's Thirst, a study of
panthers drinking in a woodland pool, is good in
some points, but wants envelopment. From. Mr.
H. H. La Thangue one would look for better
work, alike in subject, technique, and colour, than
his After the Gale. Hung near to the last in a
centre is A Hamadryad, by Mr. J. W. Waterhouse,
which displays very good work, better than his
other exhibit, A Naiad. Another associate of the
Academy, Mr. David Murray, shows a characteristic
landscape, Fir Faggots, refined in colour and paint-
ing, though too soft in the sky. Well worth noting
also is Mr. G. H. Boughton's From Sunlight to
Shadoiv. Mr. Grosvenor Thomas's Fvening is a
landscape with true poetry happily rendered. Mr.
A. Neuhays, the Dutchman, is represented by
Anxious Moments, a picture also notable for its
purely artistic feeling. Mr. Tom Hunt's large
picture of a political subject has some excellent
work in it; but in his single-figure subject, A
Cabinet Gem, there is completeness in every point.
Huntsman and Dogs, a large equestrian portrait by
Mr. C. W. Furze, seems heavy in tone. Better
work, both in colour and drawing, especially in the
dogs, is shown in Mr. George Pirrie's two canine
studies, the finer of which is Young Hounds. Mr.
T. Millie Dow has much sympathetic work in his
Herald of Winter, a decorative design

The worst part of the hanging is evident when
one comes to Mr. William Kennedy's Spring, an
audacious and unsatisfactory example of a clever
painter, which is balanced by Mr. W. Y. Mac-
gregor's Tidal River, not quite a satisfactory work,
his other exhibit, Shorcham, showing excellent
colour all through, and being the finer; while Mr.
Walton's portrait fills the centre between the
two first mentioned. The three pictures have
little in common as regards colour or work, and to
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make the effect still more inharmonious a very
" foolish sunset" is hung above the Walton.
The Garden, a study of children among flowers, by
Mr. F. H. Newbery, is well painted. Vigorous
brushwork and a fine quality of colour are the
characteristics of Mr. George Henry's Head of a
Girl, and the same commendable qualities per-
tain to Nithsdale, by Mr. James Paterson. Mr.
Wellwood Rattray's Mill Stream, Mr. John
McNiven's Arran, and Mr. Morris Henderson's
Banks of Loch Lomond, all show good work.
Bird-nesting, by Mr. R. M. G. Coventry, is a fresh
and breezy sea-piece, and his water-colour, A
Market-place, Cairo, is clever.

A very effective rendering of the sea is Mr.
William McTaggart's Ocean; while Solitude, by
Mr. A. K. Brown, also a study of the sea, is heavy

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and uninteresting. Mr. William Strang sends The
Bathers, which, however, reminds one too much
of some other painters' work. The same might be
said in a lesser degree of Mr. A. C. Holms' decora-
tive panel, Sin and Repentance, but in it there
is also good personal qualities of colour and
technique.

Others who have prominent work, but which
space forbids detailing, are Messrs. Gossan Mor-
ton, Macaulay Stevenson, Archibald Kay (whose
October is good), Reid Murray, David Gould,
Stuart Park, J. W. Hamilton, A. S. Hartrick,
Robert Macgregor, Will. Rothenstein, A. Tom-
son, and A. B. Docharty; and the Misses
Blatherwick, C. Walton, Wright, and Crawford.

The loan pictures are not so strong numerically
as usual, but in no way lacking in interest, as they
include examples of Leighton, Reid, Corot, Pettie,
James Maris, Daumier, &c.; and some delightful
studies by Burne-Jones. David Martin.