Studio: international art (37.1906)

feathers; and another Edinburgh artist, Mr. and photography, the variation is so delicately

R. B. Nisbet, is represented by a large drawing slight as to strike but the faintest note of colour,

of Haytime, in which he depicts with much skill In this, the largest and more important group of his

the effect of sunshine on green meadows covered work yet shown, there were many fine examples of

with newly-cut hay. A somewhat similar motive pure etching, dry-point, and mezzotint, and others

inspires Mr. Alexander Macbride in Springtime, in which there is a trace of the employment of the

Galloway, a study in tender greens which shows varying processes for the more effective rendering

genuine apprehension of the legitimate use of of light and shade. The collection comprised a

water-colour, a quality which also characterises the number of portraits of celebrities, in which the

last drawing which can here be noticed, Mr. J. G. artist is invariably successful, prominent amongst

Laing's Interior of St. Maclou, Rouen, a deftly these being Tennyson, Kipling, Cunninghame
drawn study of a most
interesting subject. P. B.

One of the most note-
worthy events in Glasgow
Art circles, apart from the
Spring show at the Fine Art
Institute, was the recent ex-
hibition of a collection of
etchings and drawings by
William Strang, A.R.A., at

the galleries of T. & R. ^tak jH^BBfe-' j^Um

Annan, photographers. .

There is a certain appro 'MOBjL" a jttr.......*yflB|ftlSBi^MB

priateness in such a collec-
tion having an environment

tree from the suggestion of "g^W^BPBSlHBL^..- J- '

colour, for although in the HMfiMB^fe*

added drawings the artist
makes a departure from the
black-and-white commonly

associated with etching '-haytime" by r. b. nisbet

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