Studio: international art (10.1897)

Studio-Talk

poem to Wagner or Fitzgerald's " Omar." For a
maker of beautiful things must needs be affected
by other things of beauty wrought in arts of which
he is not master, but only a mere pupil, or a
willing spectator. This delightful girdle, begun in
1893, finished in 1896, is a visible fact which
supports the above theory in a way patent to all.
To praise Mr. Fisher's skill, or call attention to the
exquisite taste he has lavished, were mere waste of
words. A work of art like this speaks clearly enough
for itself.

added to its value, and gave a very thorough
insight into his way of treating the subjects he
selected. By juxtaposition of many drawings the
effect of his individuality was made more intelli-
gible, and his exact intention became evident in a
greater degree than could be realised by examina-
tion of occasional examples of his work. To
collectors especially the exhibition was important
because it gathered together many things which are
scarcely likely to be seen again in association.

One of the latest exhibitions in the galleries of
the Fine Art Society consisted of a collected dis-
play of drawings by Mr. du Maurier. These in a
manner summarised the production of his life, as
they included work done by him at different
periods, and showed the progress of his art from
stage to stage. The completeness of the show

We have received from Mr. W. K. Vickery, of
San Francisco, two charming etchings by Miss
Helen Hyde of that city. They are studies from
life of Chinese children, clothed in their bright
New Year's Day garments. They have been ex-
cellently printed in colours from the plates by Miss
Josephine Hyde, and form dainty little souvenirs
of "China City" in the Far West.

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LASGOW.—In
the group of
young painters
localised as
the Glasgow
School, Grosvenor Thomas
has gradually but surely
made his mark as a land-
scape painter, and though
it seems only the other day
that he first came among us,
there is not one of the group
more identified with the new
movement. His pictures all
along have been chiefly pre-
sentments of landscape
themes wherein the domi-
nant features were fulness of
colour and tone, and a cer-
tain quaintness of composi-
tion. Undoubtedly this
painter has an intuitive per-
ception of the beautiful in
nature as in art, and what is
of more account he displays
in his finished pictures all
the charm of work so con-
ceived. Never in any of his
paintings is Mr. Thomas
concerned with the photo-
graphic likeness of a scene,
but rather with the impres-

"the i'ool" fr0m a painting by grosvenor thomas sion conveyed to his mind

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