Studio: international art (7.1896)

Sttidio-Talk

the visitor to a Gallery, such a collection as the
Tadema one is an undiluted pleasure, and is much
more calculated to increase the number of attend-
ances than an ordinary and general show.

The exhibition, however, contains much work of
undoubted excellence and beauty, which well
repays a visit, especially among the water-colour
drawings. Some of the younger Birmingham
artists are this year rather disappointing, but others
are making strides in the right direction. Mr.
Oliver Baker's representations of the picturesque
buildings of the Midland counties are always good ;
and Mr. Fred Mercer, in Damp Quarters, gives a
really fine and poetic piece of landscape work.
Messrs. Walter Langley, Gabriel Mitchell, Fred
Davis, Henry Harper, John Fullwood, and H.
Foster Newey, and some others of our local men,
all show strong and interesting work. An early
water-colour drawing by Mr. Alfred W. Hunt, The
Two Rainbows, an essay in Pre-Raphaelite land-
scape, which has been lent by Mr. W. Newall, adds
a note of distinction to the wall upon which it is
hung.

GLASGOW. — It is regrettable to
chronicle the death, in the prime of
his life and work, of J. Denovan
Adam, the well-known cattle and
landscape painter, who, though
born in England, was very closely associated with
Scottish art. Mr. Adam was elected an Associate
of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1886, and in
1892 he was promoted to the full membership of
the Academy. Many will remember the series of
" one-man shows'" which he gave in London, the
last exhibition of his work being held only last
season, when the chief features of the collection
were twelve large canvases, each depicting a land-
scape with cattle, the subjects representing the
different months of the year.

Walter McAdam, a young local artist, who is
exhibiting at the Stuttgart Exhibition, has had his
picture entitled October Glow, an effectively painted
landscape in sunlight and shadow, purchased by
the Wurtemberg Government for the permanent
collection in Stuttgart.

Again this year, as previously, a large number of
pictures by local painters are being sent to the
forthcoming exhibitions at Munich. Both the ex-
hibitions there—the " Secessionists " and " Munich
Artists' Association "—receive a good share of

Glasgow work, though the former gets perhaps the
more notable, as the " Glasgow School " as a body,
exhibit only with the " Secession." D. M.

BRUSSELS.—M. Melchers has been ex-
hibiting, at the Maison d'Art here, a
series of his works—paintings and
drawings — which have already had
some notice in The Studio at the
time they were shown in Paris. This collection,
together with the "nightmares" of the French
draughtsman, Odilon Redon, and M. Craco's sculp-
tures, excited a good deal of interest by its curious
exoticism.

This exhibition was followed by one of M. Raf-
faelli, who brought together a large number of
works—oils, drawings, pastels, and statuary. Here
we have bits of the Paris outskirts, with their great
waste stretches and their rag-pickers' encampments;
here, again, the streets and squares of the capital
itself, thronged with people and carriages ; and now

TRADE MARK VAL ST. LAMBERT

interiors of all sorts, and curious studies ot types.
The Societe de Verrerie du Val St. Lambert, of
Liege, has a show-case containing some artistic
glass-work, including several choice specimens of
most delicate colouring. The Marque de Fabrique,
and a catalogue cover for the Val St. Lambert
Society, were designed by M. A. Rassenforse, of
Liege.

Among the new posters which are appearing in
daily increasing numbers on the walls and in the
shop-windows, those of M. Mionet deserve a
special word of mention. The design he has done
for the Cenacle is quite a surprise in colouring, while
the drawing of a second (for a fencing school) is
full of character.

The Belgian Association of Photography has

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