Studio- Talk
SKETCH
BY S. NOAKOWSKI
Skeats exhibited. It is sure in drawing and robust
in sentiment. There were some admirable studies
by Miss E. Dowding and Miss F. Tiddeman.
The landscapes of Alfred Thornton lent distinction
to the exhibition, and here as at the New English
Art Club he gave us rich, decorative, and austere
compositions. Greville Morris effects a compro-
mise happily and equally distant from realism and
idealism. His Solitude, a subject of the marshes,
is painted in a mood well in accord with its title,
while Old Mill is a clever and beautiful interpreta-
tion of a commonplace subject. The landscapes
with cattle by Morley Park and H. Had field Cubley
are examples of right treatment in this class of
work. Walter Boodle, Edward Ehrke and Walter
Rossiter also contributed pleasing canvases.
The water-colours formed an important section,
and conspicuous amongst them were the beautiful
drawings of the West Country by Walter Tyndale.
The Palladian Bridge is a fine example of his
method, full of refinement and delicate perception oi
tone. The Fur Coat and Cattle on the Shore at East
Lulworth show to advantage the distinctive tech-
nique of Herbert Alexander, A.RAV.S. Two
drawings by G. Lawrence Bulleid, A.R.W.S., have
the intricacy of design, pure colour and wealth oi
detail beautifully drawn which are associated with
his name. Edmund Gouldsmith, R.B. A., sent some
well-handled drawings of Devon moorland and
Cornish coast, and also a New Zealand landscape
and a good study of A Sheikh. The lady artists were
well represented. The landscapes of Mrs. Baness,
Miss Lawson Watson, Miss Pedder; Mrs. Sophie
Meredith’s architectural interiors, and the minia-
tures of Miss Alice James, R.M.S., and Miss
Lucie Hill, strengthened the quality of the
exhibition. The drawings of Nat Heard, A.R.C.A.,
T J. Hallett, Samuel Poole, Walter Rossiter,
G. H. Gunston, Richard Bellhouse, Alfred O.
Townsend and J. J. Witcombe, should be named
for their sincerity of aim and soundness of method.
The sculpture exhibits, though few, were good,
especially the plaster cast of the lovely Sleep by
Edwin Smith. The Flight into Egypt and The
Nativity, small groups modelled in the round, by
Miss Mary Chadwick, are remarkable for vitality of
expression and possess an interest unusual in this
class of work. J. J. W.
MOSCOW. — ^Esthetic natures nearly
always feel a certain amount of repug-
nance to the word reconstruction,
implying, as it usually does, a degree
of erudition and painstaking nicety which has little
in common with the free creative power of the true
artist, and rarely produces any but spiritless,
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SKETCH
BY S. NOAKOWSKI
Skeats exhibited. It is sure in drawing and robust
in sentiment. There were some admirable studies
by Miss E. Dowding and Miss F. Tiddeman.
The landscapes of Alfred Thornton lent distinction
to the exhibition, and here as at the New English
Art Club he gave us rich, decorative, and austere
compositions. Greville Morris effects a compro-
mise happily and equally distant from realism and
idealism. His Solitude, a subject of the marshes,
is painted in a mood well in accord with its title,
while Old Mill is a clever and beautiful interpreta-
tion of a commonplace subject. The landscapes
with cattle by Morley Park and H. Had field Cubley
are examples of right treatment in this class of
work. Walter Boodle, Edward Ehrke and Walter
Rossiter also contributed pleasing canvases.
The water-colours formed an important section,
and conspicuous amongst them were the beautiful
drawings of the West Country by Walter Tyndale.
The Palladian Bridge is a fine example of his
method, full of refinement and delicate perception oi
tone. The Fur Coat and Cattle on the Shore at East
Lulworth show to advantage the distinctive tech-
nique of Herbert Alexander, A.RAV.S. Two
drawings by G. Lawrence Bulleid, A.R.W.S., have
the intricacy of design, pure colour and wealth oi
detail beautifully drawn which are associated with
his name. Edmund Gouldsmith, R.B. A., sent some
well-handled drawings of Devon moorland and
Cornish coast, and also a New Zealand landscape
and a good study of A Sheikh. The lady artists were
well represented. The landscapes of Mrs. Baness,
Miss Lawson Watson, Miss Pedder; Mrs. Sophie
Meredith’s architectural interiors, and the minia-
tures of Miss Alice James, R.M.S., and Miss
Lucie Hill, strengthened the quality of the
exhibition. The drawings of Nat Heard, A.R.C.A.,
T J. Hallett, Samuel Poole, Walter Rossiter,
G. H. Gunston, Richard Bellhouse, Alfred O.
Townsend and J. J. Witcombe, should be named
for their sincerity of aim and soundness of method.
The sculpture exhibits, though few, were good,
especially the plaster cast of the lovely Sleep by
Edwin Smith. The Flight into Egypt and The
Nativity, small groups modelled in the round, by
Miss Mary Chadwick, are remarkable for vitality of
expression and possess an interest unusual in this
class of work. J. J. W.
MOSCOW. — ^Esthetic natures nearly
always feel a certain amount of repug-
nance to the word reconstruction,
implying, as it usually does, a degree
of erudition and painstaking nicety which has little
in common with the free creative power of the true
artist, and rarely produces any but spiritless,
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