Studio: international art (29.1903)

Studio- Talk

tion, buying a fine and
typical work by Mr. David
Gauld for the municipal
collection. Contentment
exemplifies to the full
Mr. Gauld's admittedly
dexterous brushwork, his
clear colour, and his
capable rendering of tex-
tures.

It has been noticed be-
fore in The Studio, as a
curious sidelight on ar-
tistic inspiration, that the
Clyde has rarely afforded
subjects to our local
painters, though it is a
river full of character
and artistic possibilities,
modern and unconven-
tional, but splendidly
pictorial. And it is in-
teresting to note that when
a Glasgow painter has the
ability to see the pictorial
qualities of our own great
water-way, and the power
to use them, capable judges
see at once the value of
memorial tablet in by c. e. Thompson his achievement. Twice

recently have Glasgow
painters gained honours at
the Salon for Clyde

Bertram Priestman, here illustrated, was bought pictures. Last year Mr. Patrick Downie was
for the Birmingham City Gallery; while the Cor- awarded a bronze medal for his Winter Morning
poration of Glasgow made a very judicious selec- on the Clyde ; and this year Mr. James Kay's

beaten copper and enamel

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