Studio: international art (20.1900)

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cartoons could not have become what they have
long been, i.e. unbiassed and memorable records
of the greatest events agitating the public mind.
That these historical documents in graphic humour
and satire should be allowed to pass one by one
into private hands is very regrettable. They
ought to be purchased by the nation and hung
in a public gallery.

approaches his subjects in the right spirit, for con-
cerned though he plainly is with considerations
of symbolism and ideas of doctrine, he does not
forget the duty that he owes to his art. The
pictures—there are nine of them altogether—are
admirably drawn and painted, and are not with-
out great beauties of colour combination and
tone management. Moreover, their symbolism is

STUDY FOR "THE FASTING AND TEMPTATION :' BY A. E. EMSLIE

We have pleasure in giving an illustration, on
the opposite page, of a well-modelled statuette by
the clever young sculptor, Mr. F. Derwent Wood.

The series of religious pictures with which Mr.
A. E. Emslie preaches a sermon on the text, "God
is Love," deserve remark as serious and earnest
efforts to deal with material that few modern men
are accustomed to handle. Mr. Emslie, however,

neither abstruse nor weakly common-place but
honestly impressive and suggestive. They deserve
close study, and claim not less appreciation from
lovers of good craftsmanship than from the larger
public which is more interested in what the artist
has to say than in the particular idiom he uses to
express his beliefs. The series is being exhibited
at the Egyptian Hall, in the upper room, which is
called for the occasion the " Emslie Gallery."

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