Studio: international art (24.1902)

Studio- Talk

some limitations ot his early training, far
from being fetters to the imagination, will
enable him in after years to carve a way
for himself towards his own artistic ideal.

Two of the galleries at the Institute were
filled, one with pictures produced by senior
students of the School, the other with work
of an elementary character. Pictorial art
naturally occupied most space, and in the
first room were a number of interesting
works. Miss Susan F. Crawford sent four
charming etchings, one of the bridge at Ayr
being a notably fine example of this versatile
lady's art. Forrester Wilson sent a well-
modelled head, and H. Rigg had some
landscapes and character sketches from
Holland. Annie French's The Doleful Lady
Eleanor and the same lady's illustration to
the Ballad of the Banisht Man were quaint
and fanciful. Miss Dorothy C. Smyth's
Card Party was both effective and original,
and Miss Jessie M. King sent some of her
bookbinding designed and executed by mary e. sim characteristic work full of delicate imagina-
tion. Miss Ann Macbeth's Sleeping Beauty,
a work of great charm of colour and treat-
show the debt it must ever owe to the past. ment, and one of the most pleasing works in the
Such a preliminary training need be in no way room, will be illustrated in a later issue. Miss Agnes
inconsistent with a free and intelligent develop- Harvey's copper and enamel jewel casket, here
ment of the student's individuality, and the whole- illustrated, and her panel, do not show to full

*1 ballad of the banisht man'' illustrated by annie french

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