Studio: international art (19.1900)

Studio-Talk

Wimperis, and Leslie
Thomson; but perhaps
the most refreshing suc-
cesses of all are won by
two Scotchmen, Messrs. R.
B. Nisbet and Alexander
MacBride, whose land-
scape art has not yet
become a habit, like that
of some other important
members of the Royal
Institute. As to the
figure subjects, they are
mostly of a retrospective
character, like Mr.
Gregory's Guard-room
Dandy, an exquisitely-
painted little picture.
You will look in vain for
something at all memor-
able as a piece of to-day's
history nobly realised.

The new English Art
Club has got together for
its spring exhibition one
of the best and most
varied collections of
pictures and drawings
that it has presented for
some little while. There
is about the show none
or that aspect of uni-
formity of intention and
effort that has more than
once during recent years
diminished the value of
the assertions of the view
of the younger school
that are made at the
Dudley Gallery by this

design for mosaic by ai.bert moore society. More indepen-

dence of thought and
more marked indi-

delicacy of sentiment, as if that alone were the viduality of practice are evident in the majority
divinely-appointed end of all art. of the works that have been put on view; and

- quite a large proportion of them deserve the

This applies to the present exhibition of the highest praise as thoroughly successful attempts to
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. In combine harmoniously older traditions with the
this show there are certainly some good things more modern methods of practice. Mr. P. W.
but the average level of achievement is insipid, Steer's portrait group of Mrs. Cyril Butler and her
and that is inexcusable. Among the landscapes Children, for instance, is, despite its extremely up-
may be found some good work by Messrs. to-date manner, full of evidence of admirable care
Weedon, J. Aumonier, Bernard Evans, E. M. for elegance of arrangement; and Mr. W. W.

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