Studio: international art (31.1904)

Studio- Talk

upon to produce work which would admirably
fulfil its artistic purpose, work of a class that few
men of the modern English school are at present
capable of carrying out efficiently. He has not, in
this instance, had to deal with a very complicated
decorative problem, but within the limits assigned
to him he has done so much that is absolutely
appropriate that great expectations as to his
management of a more exacting undertaking are
quite justifiable.

Mr. Pickford Marriott (now headmaster of the
Port Elizabeth School of Art) and his brother
Mr. Frederick Marriott have made some interesting
experiments with a combination of glass, mother-o'-
pearl, and precious stones. Some reproductions
of examples of their work are given here.

The collection of pictures and drawings by
Henry Moore and his brother Albert Moore,

which was on view during the past month at the
Woodbury Gallery gave a convincing demonstration
of the capacities of two artists who can be ranked
among our greater masters. Both died at the very
height of their powers, and neither of them can be
said to have had a successor. In this exhibition
Henry Moore was represented by oil pictures,
water-colours, and pencil drawings, of marine
subjects and landscapes, in all of which his rare
technical skill and acute understanding of Nature
were completely displayed; and Albert, by one of
his most famous pictures, by several unfinished
canvases, and by a series of studies in oil, pastel,
and black and-white, all as attractive in their in-
dividuality of view as in their beauty of handling.
The idea of associating the works of two such
artists in an exhibition was distinctly happy, and
the result was most persuasive.

One of the best displays that has ever been

study for "reading aloud " (By permission of Frank M. Ltiker, Esq.) by albert moore

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