Studio: international art (34.1905)

Studio-Talk

reach than 'it is within that of any other great At the Dudley Gallery there is a collection of
artist, yet few men have been able to show so drawings by a number of artists of repute, who,
high an average of production or such re- on the whole, can be said to bear association
markable consistency in the attainment of their extremely well. The best things are Mr. Wilfrid
intention. What is to be exactly his position Ball's sunny studies, The Aqueduct by Capucini
among the masters who have made the history of Gate, Taormina, and The Poultry Cross, Salts-
art time alone can decide, but that this position bury; Mr. Thorne Waite's masculine sketches,
will be one of distinction can be confidently anti- The Hay field, The Dover Road, and Hamsey,
cipated. Besides the Watts collection, there is on Lewes; Mr. A. G. Bell's broad and effective
view at Burlington House a small series of pictures drawings, excellent in their scholarly reserve and
and drawings by Frederick Sandys; and in the strength of execution; Mr. W. Rainey's Dutch
central hall is exhibited Mr. Brock's scale model subjects, rendered with true appreciation of local
for the Victoria Memorial — the finished design character and with much subtlety of colour; Mr.
for what promises to be a noble achievement. Montague Smyth's tender notes of quiet atmo-

- spheric effects ; Mr. Robert Little's romantic land-

The group of artists who have for the past nine scapes, handled with superb directness, and
years held the " Landscape Exhibition" at the distinguished by rare beauty of colour; and the
Dudley Gallery, have migrated
to the gallery of the Royal
Society of Painters in Water-
Colours. In these new quarters
the attractions of what has
always been a very excellent
show of sound work are per-
ceptibly enhanced, and the
collection brought together
seems more than usually au-
thoritative. There has been
one change in the composition
of the group since last year,
for Sir Ernest Waterlow has
retired and his place has been
taken by that sound and
original painter Mr. J. S. Hill.
Perhaps the most remarkable
of the contributions to the
show are Mr. R. W. Allan's
luminous and delicate Amiens,
Mr. Aumonier's daintily fan-
tastic May Morning, Mr.
Mark Fisher's Water Meadows
and The Village of Zongstoch :
Winter, both of them admir-
ably expressive; Mr. J. S. Hill's
sombre and dignified Harlech,
and Mr. Leslie Thomson's three
strong and sympathetic can-
vases, Mainland from Hayling
Island, Norfolk Marshes, and
A Norfolk Mill. Mr. Pepper-
corn shows several characteristic
works, but they are, as his pic-
tures are wont to be, somewhat charcoal sketch by phcebe mcleish
exaggerated in tone relations. (See Liverpool Studio-Talk)

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