Studio: international art (36.1906)

Studio-Talk

eighteenth century. Mr. Orpen’s portraits, and
his little interior picture, in which the Hon. Mrs.
Percy Wyndham is seated in her room, may be
considered as works displaying a quite indi-
vidual talent. The works of Messrs. C. H.
Shannon, G. Sauter, E. A. Walton, John

Lavery, J. J. Shannon, Maurice Griffenhagen,
W. Rothenstein, Nevin du Mont, Arthur Hacker,
A.R.A., H. de T. Glazebrook, and MM. Jacques
Blanche and A. Besnard set a high standard.
Any reference to the exhibition should include a
notice of portraits by Messrs. W. G. Von Glehn,
Harrington Mann, H. Harris Brown, John Bowie,
Hugh G. Riviere, Richard Jack, A. Hayward, and
H. M. Livens. Mention should be made of many
others did space permit. In the Central Hall,
which was devoted to the sculpture of four con-
tributors, viz., Messrs. Gilbert Bayes,

Bertram Mackennal, E. Roscoe
Mullins, and F. M. Taubman, the
work of Mr. Bayes was full of
the extraordinary vitality that we
expect in it. Mr. Taubman was
seen at his best in work of such
feeling as the small group called
“Love’s Derelicts.” The work both
of Mr. Bertram Mackennal and
Mr. Roscoe Mullins was of excep-
tional interest.

manner of seeing things do not change, he casts
about for so many different effects to translate that
his work always seems to possess an extraordinary
sense of the movement of life. It seems to have
the energy to meet every challenge thrown out by
nature. Among the pictures by Mr. Brabazon
lately on view at the Goupil Gallery were some
particularly interesting studies after the old masters.
In these the artist shares with us the impression
great art has left with him. By the study of a
head after Rembrandt, and his studies after
Turner, and such original paintings (to name but
few) as Rainy Weather, Lucerne; Oak lands,
Sussex ; Late Autumn, Ashburnham, we are made
aware how rich a harvest falls to his sensitive
genius, both from the field of art and from the
beauty of nature.

The exhibition of water-colours
and etchings by Mr. Alfred East,
A.R.A., at the Dowdeswell Galleries
could not be other than one of the
most interesting exhibitions of the
autumn. This revelation of one side
only of his art was very conclusive
of the painter’s pre-eminence. The
display of so much resourcefulness
in water-colours in one to whom
water-colour painting has not been
everything, confronted us in a fresh
manner with the same qualities of
virility and charm through which
has come Mr. East’s fame as a land-
scape oil-painter.

Mr. H. B. Brabazon’s exhibitions
of water-colours are always a source
of great interest to the artistic
world. This sincere and delicate
impressionist is always changeable
and agreeably variable in his
work. Whilst his method and his

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