Studio: international art (20.1900)

Studio- Talk

centre figure of group by w. scurry

"art and literature"

of the human form, long and earnest study, and
by that strong embodiment of his conception
in the artist's mind, which is the mysterious and
life-giving element in all works of art. Mr.
Douglas Richardson also showed a good portrait
of Sir Thomas Elder. There was a fine sugges-
tion of force in his figure of a man called
Sketch for a statue, " Australia unsheathing the
Sword" while his Basking, a small bronze figure
of a boy basking in the sun, lying on his back,
with his arms clasped above his head, is admir-
able in the realism and delicacy of its modelling
and the accuracy of the anatomy. Mr. Richard-
son's bas-relief, A Pastoral, the figure of a
graceful shepherd resting on a branch of a tree
and playing on a pipe, with his sheep at his
feet and wandering over the hillside, was delightful
in its poetic treatment; he also showed two other
reliefs, the original sketch designed for the pedi-
ment of the " Age " Office, a group of three figures

representing Literature, and a design for the
King's Musketeer.

Mr. C. Web-Gilbert exhibited two heads in
marble, a good portrait of Macpherson Robertson,
Esq., together with the portrait of A Lady, and a
clever and characteristic head in terra-cotta, called
a Type of an Australian Girl, a very fair type, too,
with a bright and self-confident expression, and a
glance suggesting quick, but rather superficial
power of observation. The Bacchanalian Head,
by the same artist, is also a clever and expressive
study.

John Buh, funr., was the head of a boy, a clever
study, modelled with good observation and evident

"genius and the world"

by c. Douglas richardson

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