Studio: international art (34.1905)

Studio- Talk

been established by its predecessors, and is amply
interesting. Its most striking features are a set of
representative drawings by Turner, all of exception-
ally fine quality; several characteristic De Wints,
one of which, the Magdalen College, Oxford; from
the Cherwell, shows quite the most fascinating side
of his art; some excellent examples of David Cox,
and others by J. S. Cotman, William Hunt, Varley,
Prout, Girtin, and Copley Fielding; while among
the works by more recently deceased masters are a
superb sea-piece, The Derelict, by Henry Moore,
and a broad, expansive landscape, Arundel Park,
with distant view of the English Channel, by
Thomas Collier. There is, too, a characteristic
drawing, Venus Epithalmia, by Sir Edward Burne-
Jones. The best things by living artists are Mr.
R. W. Macbeth's My Ray of Sunshine, and the
contributions of Mr. Thorne Waite, Mr. J. W.
North, Mr. A. W. Weedon, Mrs. Allingham, and
Miss Gow.

The casket designed by Mrs. Cayley Robinson,
which we reproduce here, was exhibited at Christ-
mas in the exhibition of decorative work which
Mr. John Baillie held in his galleries. It is covered
with coloured gesso reliefs, and its colouring was
subdued and altogether pleasant. Its decoration
possessed an appearance of much distinction and
refinement. At the same exhibition were the two
drawings of Miss Annie French which we illustrate.

fantastic designs, The Piper and the Fishes, The
Princess carried off by the Dragon, and The Little
Fisherman; and Mr. W. Nicholson's dignified
drawings, Queen's College, Oxford and Entrance to
the Old Ashmolean, claim the highest attention ;
but the contributions of Mr. E.' A. Walton, Mr.
Edwin Alexander and Mr. J. Crawhall are hardly
less significant.

It was supposed that there was nothing left for
any one to do in the manner of Beardsley—that
Beardsley exhausted his own vein. As a matter of
fact, the fancifulness of Beardsley's work was essen-
tially a quality which a feminine mind might seek
to carry farther than he carried it as an accessory
to quaint design, and so we have the work of Miss
Annie French and Miss Jessie King. It will be
noticed in these drawings that, in place of the
strength and the variety of the Beardsley line, in
exchange for the expressiveness with which genius
informed it, we have an exquisite pattern woven
from a fanciful usage of the dots and lines his
method suggested. The drawings are much more
to Miss French's credit than any imitation of the
qualities of the Beardsley line; as it is, they are not
an imitation, but a device, charming, original, and
dainty. One motif from Beardsley's work has been
retained, rearranged, and used for the sake of itself,
combined with many qualities that entirely are
Miss French's own.

Another water-colour exhibition of a very attrac- Mr. Hugh L. Norris has in the galleries of the
tive type has recently been opened in Mr. Paterson's Fine Art Society a gathering of drawings of Clovelly
Gallery. It includes only drawings by living men, and Other Places, which illustrate well his delicate
but these drawings have been so carefully selected sense of nature's subtleties and his command over
and are so excellently representative of some of refinements of technical practice. He has a
the best water-colourists
among us at the present
day, that they sum up
effectively many of the best
qualities of our school.
Two magnificent drawings
by Mr. J. M. Swan,
Tigress and Young watch-
ing Python and Leopard's
Siesta; Mr. D.Y.Cameron's
architectural studies, Ln
Lincoln Cathedral and
Rue des Barres, Paris;
Mr. A. D. Peppercorn's
arrangement in low tones
of colour, The Estuary
of the Exe; Mr. Arthur

Rack ham's exquisitely casket by mrs. cayley robinson

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