Studio: international art (38.1906)

Studio-Talk

BOOKCOVER IN IVORY BY R. GARBE

interest was Mr. Bernard Partridge’s clever drawing
of Sir Henry Irving as Louis XI Both Mr. H.
Hughes Stanton and Mr. Henry Muhrman seem
thoroughly to understand the qualities of the
medium, and Mr. Terrick Williams is another who
is at home with its difficulties. In his delicate por-
traiture Mr. Lewis Baumer was singularly happy.
Mr. Conder in Easter Sunday at Auteuii and in The
Keyhole again tried his skill in harmonising violent
contrasts of colour. We must not omit to mention
the work of Mr. Melton Fisher, Miss Florence
Small and Mrs. M. A. Eastlake, nor Mr. Grosvenor
Thomas’s, with its fine feeling for landscape colour.
A row of studies by the late Mr. H. B. Brabazon
served to remind us of his fine and sensitive art.

As a designer of stencils and stained glass the
Arts and Crafts Exhibitions have acquainted the
public with Mr. E. Ingram Taylor’s designs. We
reproduce some recent work of his displaying to
advantage his skill in drawing and design and
the pleasant character of his prolific fancy.

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At the Leicester Gallery Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Knight, whose work is remarkably similar, held an
exhibition in June. The oil paintings called for
particular notice, many of them showing work of
the highest excellence. The water-colours, though
not so individual in character, were marked by
luminous colour and clever management of light.
The water-colours of Mr. Arthur Severn in an
adjoining room were good examples of his art
at its best. The Indian water-colours of Mr. R.
Gwelo Goodman fully realised the strong sunlight
effects of the country and the colour notes of
costume; the lines of buildings were always effec-
tively harmonised and composed by the painter.
Previous to this exhibition some water colours by
Mr. Mark Fisher showed him expressing himself
effectively in a new medium, and Mr. Mortimer
Menpes was seen in a new field he has found for
his brilliant brush in the home counties.

STAINED-GLASS DESIGN BY E. INGRAM TAYLOR