Studio: international art (26.1902)

London Spring Exhibitions

A comparatively large number of landscapes is a powerful imaginative landscape, The End of

and studies of open-air subjects which show sensi- the Pilgrim's Road, by Mr, Albert Goodwin, which

tiveness to nature's suggestions and freshness of calls for comment.

expression can be selected from the collections in Among the open-air subjects far and away the

Regent Street and Piccadilly. The New Gallery most remarkable are Mr. Arnesby Brown's The

has Mr. J. L. Pickering's Corsican picture, Where River Bank, a stretch of marshy meadow with

Winter Touches Lightly, cattle in sunlight; and

Mr. J. Coutts Michie's The Top o' the Hill, by

Picardy Landscape, Mr. Mr. Charles Sims, a

Leslie Thomson's Lin- masterly note of bril-

disfarn, Mr. Hethering- liant sunlight and

ton's Desolation, Mr. . breezy atmosphere.

Bertram Priestman's Both these pictures

Meadowland and , claim places in abso-

Marsh; a most poetic- lutely the first rank of

ally imagined and ten- H^^^K^^3hBHBP^ trie art t'le °-ay >
derly realised spring 4 \ and, as works by young
landscape, A Morning MS artists who have the
Song, by Mr. Alfred ®| best part of their lives
East, and a pretty little * before them, they are
Moonlight Idyll, by Mr. ^j^^Mt&S»k as ful1 of promise for
Edward Stott, all ol WV*pKp; the future as they are
which are well worth * of actual fascination,
attention as character- ^fe^^^^^ Attention is also due
istic assertions of sin- to the marine picture by
cereartisticconvictions. Mr. Stanhope Forbes,
The Academy is fuller v Chadding in Mount's
than it need be of con- '" " ' Bay, and to his other
ventionalised records of large canvas, lighting-
pretty scenery which up Time, to Mr. Edward
have been contributed Stott's twilight pastoral,
by artists like Mr. Peaceful Rest, Miss
Leader Mr. Mac- Kemp-Welch's Plough-
Whirter, Mr. Peter ing on the South Coast,
Graham, and others Mr. J. M. Swan's
who paint by rule and exquisitely drawn
follow a recipe which ."*** Leopardess and Young
seems to be getting a . - Desce?iding Hill, Mr.
little worn out, but it j - Lionel P. Smythe's
has besides a few pure Gleaners, Mr. Hook's
landscapes which show Alfred east, a.r.a. by george frampton, r.a. IVhere the Green Sea
more freshness of feel- Meets the Shingle, a
ing and spontaneity of fine note of diffused
treatment. The most memorable of these are daylight, Mr. YV. L. Wyllie's The Houses of Parlia-
Mr. Alfred East's delightfully decorative Idyll oj merit, to another picture by Mr. Arnesby Brown,
Como, and his admirably studied Morning Sun- Full Summer, and to the series of canvases by
light, Mr. E. A. Waterlow's sober and reserved Mr. La Thangue. It may, indeed, be almost
Backwater on the Ouse, Mr. Parsons' Brown said of Mr. La Thangue that he is among the pro-
Autumn, Mr. Yeend King's The Heron's Pool on ducers of pastoral subjects what Mr. Sargent is
the Lledr, Mr. J. L. Henry's Cornish Harbour, among the portrait painters, he is so amazingly
Mr. David Murray's large and dignified Braes oj brilliant and strikes such a dominant note in the
Yarrow, Mr. Coutts Michie's Wet Harvest Weather, exhibition. There is not one of his pictures which
M. Thaulow's Old Sawmill, Norway, and Professor cannot be examined with real pleasure ; they have
von Herkomer's Watching the Invaders; and there all his usual vigour of expression and breadth of
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