Studio- Talk
for formalities of design and expression have not work has carried out for His Majesty's private chapel
diminished, but he has added to them a sensitive- at Windsor. The work was commissioned by the
ness to what may be called the accidental charms late Queen, and the design is by Mr. Comper.
of nature which previously was not apparent in his --
work. In many of these drawings subtleties of Mr. Albert Goodwin's water-colour drawings at
atmosphere and modulations of aerial tone, which Mr. Dunthorne's Gallery and Mr. Trevor Had-
he has not before taken into account, modified don's .Pictures of Spain at the Leicester Gallery
perceptibly his decorative intention ; and in the made exhibitions both of which can fairly be called
series of portraits, which was one of the features of distinguished. Mr. Goodwin's works were mostly
the exhibition, he combined in a delightful fashion fanciful and imaginative transcriptions of nature,
study of individual character with quaint conven- and illustrated less the topography of the places he
tion in technical method. had chosen to depict than the impression made
-- upon him by effects of atmosphere and subtle
The " Landscape Exhibition," which has by now gradations of aerial colour. Mr. Trevor Haddon's
become an important institution, opened at the pictures and sketches were, on the other hand,
beginning of January in the Dudley Gallery. It records of the features of two particular towns,
presented a more than usually excellent collection They were very sound and sincere, full of earnest
of pictures by Sir E. A. Waterlow, Mr. Leslie observation and handled with sober strength.
Thomson, Mr. R. W. Allan, Mr. J.
Aumonier, Mr. Peppercorn, and Mr.
Mark Fisher, all of whom did them- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B
Waterlow's October Evening, Picardy,
Mr. Leslie Thomson's Bolton Abbey, %
cannot be said to have contained
anything unworthy of attention. It
was extremely well balanced, and
had a most attractive atmosphere of ',
sincere and intelligent study. • i , j .llill^^^B
The history of ship decoration has
yet to be written, but most persons
know something about the subject,
and are aware that the shapes and the
ornamentations of ships have ever
been of great interest. Mr. Morton
Nance, like Mr. Frank Brangwyn,
takes a keen delight in every branch
of the subject, and the admirable
pencil studies which are reproduced
on pages 50 and 51 will draw attention
to the work he has done from the ship
models in the Louvre.
It is with pleasure that we reproduce
a beautifully worked altar frontal which
the Royal Irish School of Art Needle- "a tangled hedgerow" by w. g. simmonds
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for formalities of design and expression have not work has carried out for His Majesty's private chapel
diminished, but he has added to them a sensitive- at Windsor. The work was commissioned by the
ness to what may be called the accidental charms late Queen, and the design is by Mr. Comper.
of nature which previously was not apparent in his --
work. In many of these drawings subtleties of Mr. Albert Goodwin's water-colour drawings at
atmosphere and modulations of aerial tone, which Mr. Dunthorne's Gallery and Mr. Trevor Had-
he has not before taken into account, modified don's .Pictures of Spain at the Leicester Gallery
perceptibly his decorative intention ; and in the made exhibitions both of which can fairly be called
series of portraits, which was one of the features of distinguished. Mr. Goodwin's works were mostly
the exhibition, he combined in a delightful fashion fanciful and imaginative transcriptions of nature,
study of individual character with quaint conven- and illustrated less the topography of the places he
tion in technical method. had chosen to depict than the impression made
-- upon him by effects of atmosphere and subtle
The " Landscape Exhibition," which has by now gradations of aerial colour. Mr. Trevor Haddon's
become an important institution, opened at the pictures and sketches were, on the other hand,
beginning of January in the Dudley Gallery. It records of the features of two particular towns,
presented a more than usually excellent collection They were very sound and sincere, full of earnest
of pictures by Sir E. A. Waterlow, Mr. Leslie observation and handled with sober strength.
Thomson, Mr. R. W. Allan, Mr. J.
Aumonier, Mr. Peppercorn, and Mr.
Mark Fisher, all of whom did them- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^B
Waterlow's October Evening, Picardy,
Mr. Leslie Thomson's Bolton Abbey, %
cannot be said to have contained
anything unworthy of attention. It
was extremely well balanced, and
had a most attractive atmosphere of ',
sincere and intelligent study. • i , j .llill^^^B
The history of ship decoration has
yet to be written, but most persons
know something about the subject,
and are aware that the shapes and the
ornamentations of ships have ever
been of great interest. Mr. Morton
Nance, like Mr. Frank Brangwyn,
takes a keen delight in every branch
of the subject, and the admirable
pencil studies which are reproduced
on pages 50 and 51 will draw attention
to the work he has done from the ship
models in the Louvre.
It is with pleasure that we reproduce
a beautifully worked altar frontal which
the Royal Irish School of Art Needle- "a tangled hedgerow" by w. g. simmonds
49