Studio: international art (16.1899)

Studio- Talk

Mr. T. C. Gotch is also Italian in his inspiration, take us into an enchanted land, but without cross-
His picture is the Pageant of Childhood. It is a ing the frontier of reality : mariners in galleys of
procession of children with cymbal and clarion vermilion are in grievous peril of sirens in a blue-
and banner, and Mr. Gotch has wrought with his veined cove. Mr. Moffat Lindner shows us water—
accustomed care all the wealth of brocade and rich Dordrecht with its broad-beamed barges reflected
stuffs that he delights in. Mrs. Stanhope Forbes in the amber water. Mr. Lindner speaks in short
has turned aside into the illustration of a romance staccato sentences of colour: sometimes it is an
that she has found in Mallory, and the drawings English river with a screen of trees, sometimes a
for this have gained her admission into the ranks sand dune crowned by a white cloud, but always
of the Old Water-Colour Society. Mr. Bosch the short crisp sentence, brilliant and clear.
Reitz is at work on a decorative pattern of boats ;
Mr. Millie Dow upon a portrait group by a curving

bay, in which children, hand in hand, meet a Mr. Harewood Robinson has a harmony in
green-clad Flora. Mr. Julius Olsson desires to green verging to blue. Mr. Langley has a village

green and cross, itinerant
musicians proclaiming in
gait and mien the fact
that they are aliens. Mr.
H. M. Rhean has a
Sleeping Beauty and a
sorceress. Mr. Stanhope
Forbes has emerged from
the lurid atmosphere of
his Fire of London, and
is ozoning himself at the
feet of the Pyrenees. In
Falmouth Mr. Napier
Hemy is at work upon
flowing seas; Mr. W.
Ayerst Ingram, who has
lately come back from
America, is also labouring
on the same restless ele-
ment. Mr. H. S. Tuke,
who likes bathing in sun-
light in every sense, has
again a number of youths
swimming and diving.
The painting is full of
sunshine, and, short of
Mr. Sargent, it is impos-
sible to mention any one
more simple and direct
in his appeal to the eye
than Mr. Tuke. Mr.
Lamorna Birch is working
on some landscapes, one
of which, showing fields
and moorlands seen
through a screen of trees
in white daylight, is par-
ticularly striking and per-
sonal.

"A GIPSY GIRL" BY PITTENDRIGH MACGILLIVRAY N. G.