Studio: international art (25.1902)

Studio- Talk

STUDIO-TALK
(From our own Correspondents.)

LONDON.— Mr. Fulleylove's watercolours
of The Holy Land from Hebron to the
Lake of Galilee, which have lately been
on view in the galleries of the Fine Art
Society, claim much praise on account of their
excellent technical quality and their shrewd study
of the characteristic atmosphere of the country in
which their subjects have been found. They show
plainly how deeply the artist was impressed by his
surroundings, and how honestly he worked to
reproduce the peculiar sentiment of the bare and
rugged Eastern landscape, and the quaint pic-
turesqueness of the historical buildings in the
towns. The exhibition was in many ways one of
the most successful that Mr. Fulleylove has ever
arranged, and gave a very favourable impression of
his capacities as a firm draughtsman and agreeable
colourist.

Mr. W. L. Wyllie's series of drawings ot marine
subjects and landscapes, which was to be seen at
Messrs. Dowdeswell's gallery during March, must
be noted as a very satisfactory assertion of his
ability to deal intelligently with delicate subtleties
of atmospheric effect and with gradations of tender
colour. In the sea studies his knowledge of wave
form and his skill in realising the charm of diffused
light gave importance to even the slightest notes,
and made the more elaborate drawings particularly
convincing. In his landscapes he showed a good
feeling for spacious distance, and a lightness of
touch which enabled him to introduce a multi-
plicity of small details without any suggestion of
over-labour. His taste and power of craftsmanship
were very evident throughout the whole collection.

As Mr. Anders L. Zorn is certainly one of the
strongest and most individual of modern European
artists, and admirably skilled in many branches of
practice, the exhibition of his etchings which has
recently been opened at Mr. Gutekunst's gallery in
King Street, St. James's, has a degree of signi-
ficance which does not often belong to small shows.
His etched work is exceptionally powerful and ex-
pressive, amazingly direct in method, and marked
by particular appreciation of broad effects of light
and-shade. It is robust in style without being
aggressive or careless in execution ; and it has an
impressive bigness and simplicity which cannot
often be found in present-day black-and-white work.

Two small shows which had sufficient merit to
entitle them to a few words of praise have been
presented at the Continental Gallery, and at
Messrs. Graves' Gallery in Pall Mall. At the
Continental Gallery Mr. W. VVestley Manning
collected a number -of water-colours and small
oil-paintings of landscape and sea subjects, in
which he displayed effectively a pleasant instinct
for rich but subdued colour, and a (mite acceptable
idea of dealing with effects of light and atmosphere.
In his water-colours especially there was much
charm of sentiment and daintiness of method. At
Graves' Gallery Mrs. S. Roope Dockery was repre-
sented by a number of drawings, illustrating the
wine-growing districts of Portugal, which were
quite adequate as topographical studies, and in a
quiet way by no means unsuccessful as notes of
harmonious and well-combined colour.

The exhibition of the Royal Society of Painter
Etchers, though not beyond criticism as a summary
of present-day practice in various forms of engrav-
ing, includes a fair number of interesting works.
There is a series of some half-dozen examples of
M. Helleu's elegant art, in which it is pleasant to
note a reversion from the coarser methods which
seemed last year to be growing upon him, to the
more delicate devices by which he made his well-
deserved reputation. There are good things by
Mr. D. Y. Cameron, Mr. Oliver Hall, Mr. Charles
Holroyd, M. Eegros, Mr. E. W. Charlton, Mr.
R. W. Macbeth, Miss C. M. Nichols, Mr. L. P.
Phillips, and Miss C. M. Pott, and some strong
but rather exaggerated instances of Mr. W. Strang's
strangely individual accomplishment, and there is a
group of Turner's original mezzotints, which makes
the rest of the show seem somewhat tame and in-
effectual. The best of the modern etchings are Mr.
Holroyd's graceful and tenderly handled drawing
of The Campanile of S. Pietro in Castello, Mr.
Oliver Hall's delightfully designed Old Timber
Bridge, Lsle of Wight, Mr. D. Y. Cameron's
Laleham, fine in composition, though a little harsh
in its contrast of tones, and the expansive and
atmospheric Vallce en Bourgogne by M. Legros.
These rise conspicuously above the general average,
and are well worthy of close attention.

BIRMINGHAM. -The Exhibition of
Students' Work in connection with the
Birmingham Art Schools is this year a
record of satisfactory progress in the
right direction. While there is, perhaps, less of
striking merit than in some previous years, the

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