Studio: international art (31.1904)

Studio- Talk

year, and in honour of the occasion has got together both delightful in their charm of colour and freedom

a summer exhibition that sums up adequately the of touch ; Mr. Arthur Rackham's Cupid's Alley,

best qualities of the chief contributors. There is the best of his many fascinating contributions;

hardly anything in the show that is unworthy of the Mr. Anning Bell's splendidly designed Music by

high tradition of the Society, and the number of the Water, are prominent features of the show;

really remarkable drawings is large enough to make and in the long list of other memorable achieve-

the collection as a whole of extraordinary importance, ments there are works worthy of the closest

Some admirable landscapes are included: among attention by Mr. J. S. Sargent, Mr. Reginald

them an exquisite atmospheric study, Landscape in Barratt, Mr. D. Y. Cameron, Mr. Arthur Melville,

Burgundy, and a large and dignified composition, Prof, von Herkomer, Mr. J. Walter West, Mr. R. W.

The Mill Pool, by Sir E. A. Waterlow; some clever Allan, Mr. H. S. Tuke, Mr. A. E. Emslie, and

sketches, West Lothian Landscape, and On the Mr. J. M. Swan. This last artist's Ceylon Leopards

Cluden, Dttmfries, by Mr. Robert Little; a good is a remarkable success,
study, Low Tide on a Quiet Shore, by Mr. W. Eyre

Walker ; and interesting things by Mr. James In the summer exhibition of the New English
Paterson, Mr. W. Callow, and Mr. Albert Goodwin. Art Club there are very few works which do not
But the figure subjects are even more important. deserve some measure of praise. The bulk of the
Mr. J. R. Weguelin's compositions, A Wave- collection is, indeed, of very high quality, so high
Washed Shore and Spring Blossoms and Youth, that the occasional failures which have crept in

through some errors of
judgment on the part of
the hanging committee
can almost be forgiven.
Special praise is due to
Mr. P. W. Steer's vigorous
and expressive Richmond
Castle; Mr. J. S. Sargent's
Stable at Cuenca, with its
audacious passages of
colour and accurate ren-
dering of tone relations ;
Mr. C. W. Furse's masterly
Timber Haulers, and to
the canvases by Mr.
James Henry, Mr. Mark
Fisher, Mr. W. W. Russell,
Mr. W. Rothenstein, Mr.
Henry Tonks, Mr. L. A.
Harrison, Mr. J. E.
Blanche, Mr. James
Charles, and Mr. A. S.
Hartrick. Besides these
there are water-colours and
black-and-white drawings of
much merit by Mr. Steer,
Mr. Tonks, Mr. A. W.
Rich, Mr. F. E. James,
Mr. Moffat Lindner, Mr.
Sargent, and Mr. W. Strang.

Lucien Monod, already
greatly appreciated in
Paris, both as painter and

PANEL IN GESSO AND MOTHER-o'-PEARL BY PICKFORD MARRIOTT aS draughtsman, is not

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