Studio: international art (20.1900)

Studio- Talk

DUBLIN.—The two principal events since
last I wrote have been the Exhibitions
of the Water-Colour Society and of the
Royal Hibernian Academy. The
forty-sixth Exhibition of the Water-Colour Society
brought forward some refined and interesting work
—the lady exhibitors being well to the front. Miss
Rose Barton's "Street-scapes," with their delicate
atmospheric effects, are always charming. Miss
M. A. Butler is another Irishwoman whose work
is familiar to the habitues of London galleries.
Her pictures, as well as Miss Rose Barton's, are
often seen on the walls of the Old Water-
Colour Society, and the trustees of the Chantrey
Bequest recently bought one of her pictures
for the Tate gallery. She contributed eight
pictures to the Dublin Water-Colour Exhibition,
in all of which her clear and direct method of
handling her subject was observable. Miss Helen
O'Hara, who is justly praised for her beautiful
transparent wave effects, was represented by only
one study in her familiar method—a sea piece
entitled a Rising Gale; but she gave us two or
three pleasant landscapes, in which she showed
that she can sympathise with Nature in her milder
moods.

Miss Lynch, as usual, confined herself to interiors,
detail of a bandstand designed by e. g. gillick and to colour harmonies in which pure vermilion is
(See Nottingham Studio-Talk) the dominant note. She was even more successful

landscape

by percy french