Studio: international art (28.1903)

Studio- Talk

hardly showed any marked advance, at least Yeats. Miss Purser's portrait of Dr. Douglas
it was up to the level of previous years. The Hyde, one of the foremost workers in the Irish
Water-Colour Society's Exhibition, which recently literary revival, is a vivid and convincing piece of
opened, always brings forward some clever work, work, and Mr. Yeats's portrait of Mr. George
Miss Rose Barton's delightful studies of little Russell is as poetic as the original. It might
children are amongst the most charming things of be described as the portrait of a poet by a poet,
the kind we have seen for a long time; while Miss so admirably has the artist succeeded in trans-
K. Wyatt, Mr. P. French, Mr. W. Osborne, and ferring to his canvas the idealism of the sitter.
Miss J. Douglas all show interesting work. Of the younger exhibitors, Mr. William Orpen is

- perhaps the painter about whom one would

The Royal Hibernian Academy's Exhibition is, prophesy with most confidence. He has plenty
I think, stronger than usual. Some of the portraits of temperament and character, a rare distinction,
are excellent—notably Mr. Lavery's Dame aux and, above all, restraint in the handling of his
Perks, which, of course, has been exhibited before, subject. His Simple Fracture is unpleasant in
and the works by Miss Sara Purser and Mr. J. B. subject, but unmistakably clever in treatment;

while the London Interior
is altogether charming in
the studied elegance of its
design. E. D.

LIVERPOOL. —
The much coveted
blue ribbon prize
for art students of
Liverpool is the ^60
special art scholarship,
tenable for one year's study
in London or some Con-
tinental art centre. This
prize, presented by the City
Council through the Tech-
nical Instruction Commit-
tee, has this year been
awarded to Miss Ethel
Martin, who has for the
last four years been a stu-
dent at the School of Archi-
tecture and Applied Art,
University College, holding
during two years of that
time the ^30 art scholar-
ship, besides winning other
prizes.

The adjudicator for the
Scholarship — Mr. Taylor,
of the Birmingham School
of Art — commends Miss
Martin's skill in drawing
and design, and specially
mentions her modelling
work from the life, and

PASTEL STUDY ON BROWN-PAPER BY MISS PAXTON BROWN &Tl 0rIglnal design for a

(See Glasgow Studio- Talk) fountain. H. B. B.

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