Studio: international art (20.1900)

Studio- Talk

has become very popular
with the Geelong people,
and an effort is being made
to purchase the picture for
the infant Public Gallery.
As the picture treats of a
side of Australian life which
is rapidly passing away, a
public gallery would be a

EMBROIDERY DESIGNED BY DARDENNE fit resting-place for SL WOrk

EXECUTED BY FONSON which depicts SQ faithfully

and sympathetically a
pathetic incident recalling

to set himself to paint quite simply the tranquil the days when Bush-life meant isolation, before the
aspects of the waters, the life of the quays, in railway had penetrated into the stillness of the
clear tones altogether unlike the dark, bitu- forest, and when the click of the electric needle
minous productions of other days. The big was an unknown sound,
galleries of Europe and America contain important -

works by this artist; but the general public had no An interesting exhibition of etchings, mezzotints
knowledge of the interesting collection of studies, and autotype pictures was held in the Old Court
freshly-painted from Nature, which covered from

top to bottom the walls of his vast studio. _____

A new association, styled the " Societe Nationale
des Aquarellistes et Pastellistes de Belgique," has
opened its first exhibition in the Musee de Bruxelles.
There is a superabundance of work by amateurs
striving to imitate the " professional " style in vogue
at the moment, and also too much " professional"
stuff which we have seen, and seen again, elsewhere.
Among the new work—the inedit—should be
noted that of Mile. Art and M. Herremans.

F. K.

ELBOURNE.—Geelong, a town some
forty miles from Melbourne, has
recently held its first important exhibi-
tion of pictures. Owing mainly to the
exertions of a well-known citizen of Geelong, Mr.
J. Sayer, a scheme was set on foot to bring together
some work lent by the Trustees of the Melbourne
National Gallery, and representative work of the
Victorian artists, and to establish the first Annual
Exhibition, and thus to rouse interest in the people
of Geelong with a view to starting a public gallery
in their midst.

The Victorian artists who sent work to the Exhi-
bition were :—Messrs. Fred McCubbin, Walter
Withers, E. P. Fox, Arthur Boyd, Arthur Loureiro,
Harry AVaugh, H. Ramsay, J. Mather, Mrs. Boyd
and the Misses Sutherland and Fuller.

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Mr. Fred McCubbin's exhibit, A Bush Funeral, £g» £