Studio: international art (28.1903)

Studio- Talk

and white sky, a picture in
which Mr. E. A. Walton
unites the lusty passion
of his earlier work with
that more artful design
which he has cultivated
is*'- " of recent years; while

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scapes under cloud-piled
skies tempt you to class

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Mr. D. Y. Cameron be
passed without comment.

Scottish picture shows, interest is pretty equally Amongst the subject-pictures Mr. Robert Gibb's
divided amongst subject-pictures, portraits, and great canvas, Hougomont, 1815, is conspicuous for
landscapes. Yet it is in the two last that the able and animated treatment. Designed with much
real strength of the exhibition lies. Mr. Guthrie's skill, and worked out with an uncommon combina-
three portraits, especially a delightful picture of tion of boldness and precise knowledge, it is in many
a little girl, one of the most charming and satisfy- ways the best picture he has yet painted. Despite
ing things he has ever done, are enough in a rather unpleasant quality of colour and handling,
themselves to make the portraiture
memorable; and in addition to them,
and the Whistlers, the Sargents, and an
Orchardson, there are admirable por-
traits by Sir George Reid, Mr.
Walton, Mr. Lavery and Mr. Henry
Kerr. Mr. John Bowie, in a powerful,
if not very subtle, rendering of an
elderly gentleman and Mr. Brough with a
lady's portrait, carried further and more
searching in character than is usual
with this artist of seductive, if rather
slight, talent, show a distinct advance
on previous efforts. In landscape,
again, one lingers over a stretch of
golden cornfields and rolling country,
by Mr. McTaggart (so long a stranger
to the annual exhibition of the society
of which he is the most gifted member),
which literally gleams with the radiant
light of an autumn day; a nocturne,
in which Mr. Lawton Wingate has
caught much of the glamour and
mystery and magical colour of moon-
light; and a summer landscape of full-
folia ged trees against a buoyant blue study by edwin Alexander
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