Studio: international art (18.1900)

Studio- Talk

this way to the knowledge of those most interested In the Autumn Exhibition at the Walker Art
in the various subjects. Gallery, one of the few decorative panels that
- attracts attention is No. 1427, a coloured plaster

One of the groups most valuable to the student relief, Thetis, by Miss C. A. Walker, whose success-
is the fine collection illustrating the Arts and Crafts ful work, Pandora, was illustrated in No. 61 of The
of Japan. Studio.

The tragically sudden death of Mr. James L. Miss B. A. Pughes' recent exhibition of about
Bowes will be a matter of deep regret to all those fifty water-colour drawings and sketches showed
who shared his appreciation of Japanese art. His many well-rendered out-of-the-way bits in the
fine collection, admirably grouped and arranged in canals and islands of Venice, studies in the
his private museum at Streatlam Towers, was outskirts of Rome, fishermen and boats at Porto
always generously opened to the public. This d'Anzio, the ruins of Nero's palaces, and Nettuno.
collection and his various publications relating to Her Herefordshire village scenes, homesteads and
it have largely contributed to the growth of public cottages, and her coast scenes at Aberdovey and
admiration for Japanese work and to a general the marshlands of Towyn, afforded proof of good
knowledge of the subject. taste evinced in the selection of subject, even

- though, as in the case of some of the sketches,

they are somewhat slightly
treated.

H. B. B.

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ARIS.—Under the
style of " Les
Jardins d'Es-
pagne," M. San-
tiago Rusifiol is
exhibiting at the Art Nouveau
a series of thirty-two canvases,
wherein with rare grace and
sentiment he evokes the
melancholy glories of the old
gardens of Spain. Here we
see the Cour de la Sultane,
the Palais de PEveque, the
Fontaine du Generalife, and
the Voute de Pampres at
Grenada, the Chemin bleti and
the Jardin du Prince at Aran-
juez, the Cloitre of Tarragona,
and the Fontaine Rouge of La
Granja. In all these, indeed
in every one of his works, M.
Rusifiol deals lovingly with
those scenes which revive the
old heroic or mystic spirit of
the various ages that give
birth to these beautiful decors.
Like the true artist he is,
M. Rusifiol invests everything
with its own special character,
taking as much care over the
"expression" of a tree, or a
' thb bishop's palace, granada " by Santiago RusiSoi- piece of architecture, or a

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