Studio: international art (37.1906)

The International Society's Exhibition. First Notice

by alex. fisher

pleasant in his large painting, Alathea. M. Aman-Jean's
scheme of col- Portrait de Femme well represented that distin-
our, and both guished painter.

witnessed to his Paintings which also called for particular men-
almost wonder- tion were Mr. E. A. Walton's Portrait, Mr. Nevin
ful dexterity. du Mont's John Jorrocks, Esq., M.F.H. (lent by the
Mile. W. Singer Cologne Museum), Mr. Georg Schuster-Woldan's
painted in a Portrait of my Daughter, M. Charles Milcendeau's
delicate man- Seine Familiale, Mr. F. H. Newbery's The Sisters,
ner a charming the late Mr. Robert Brough's W. D. Ross, Esq.,
interior filled Mr. Francis Howard's Portrait of Airs. Charles
with light. A Ponsonby, M. Louis Legrand's Le Bain, Mr.
picture named Alexander Jamieson's Portrait of Mrs. E. Set/on.
The Mantel- In the entrance hall with the sculpture, Mr. Alex-
piece, exhibited ander Fisher exhibited a case of designs for
by Mr. J. Op- jewellery, marked with that high sense of symbol-
penheimer, ical design that gives unusual interest to everything
called for parti- from this designer's hands,
cular attention. Turning to landscape painting, Mr. E. A. Walton
In it a lady is sitting close to let real sunshine into the exhibition

the fire ; her surroundings pre- —and very decoratively and lightly

senting just one of those problems I. he had painted his picture, called

in the painting of still life which JP^^^^^^^^^MPSI Landscape, filling it with delicately
have fascinated more than one K^P""- "'.JaB. JHBffSljSi contrasted greens. When a painter
artist at the beginning of his ^S^Snmm^^P^^^Sk names his picture Windin the Trees,
career. Mr. Oppenheimer passes wBmm^Sf^mmW^KM these words in themselves create
from the painting of the ornaments WmmmWrr^SSS^KmW so beautiful a picture that if the
on the mantelpiece to the folds of wEmmm2&$Smw spectator happens to read the title
the lady's dark skirt with the same ^jgBj^^ZZCSzMr first, he finds himself looking at

evident feeling for the beauty of sur- \, the picture critical of any unworthy

faces: his artistic future will depend ^ ^ interpretation of the most emotional

on the power he acquires to treat mm thing in nature; and what better

with equal sensitiveness every part W praise could we give to Mr. James

of his canvas. Mr. Maurice Greiffen- Pat erson's picture of this title than

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hagen s portrait has, besides much SUpport to say we were not disappointed in

excellent painting, the charm of viva- any way?

cious expression in the face. The Cafe, by Mr. W. R.
Russell, was painted with a great regard for truth of
effect and colour in a difficult problem of interior lighting.
Under the Greenwood Tree, by Miss C. Halford, is a
picture of considerable charm : whilst not conforming
quite enough in certain ways to the decorative formula
which the artist embraced, it still remains pleasantly
decorative, and not a lifeless form of decoration. Mr.
James Pryde's View of a Town with Figures is fully
representative of the mood in which Mr. Pryde is at pre-
sent working; he has fallen in love with painter-like
qualities and expresses them half-traditionally in a tra-
ditional-looking picture. Mr. Stuart Park conjures
brilliantly with his paint and brush in his flower pieces,
Red and White Begonias and Azaleas; but we cannot
prevent ourselves feeling that flower-life is too gentle
a thing in its nature for an artist to arrive at its expression

in Mr. Park's manner. Mr. J. W. Lambert was interesting gold & enamel morse by alex. fisher
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