Studio: international art (38.1906)

Mr. Montague Smyths Landscapes

‘GATHERING WOOD

as delighted the heart of Anton Mauve. Silvery
grey mists enveloping a landscape of rich warm

tones he paints with remai li-
able truth and dexterity,
and in all his work he
reveals a depth of senti-
ment and a profound inti-
macy only to be derived
from a close study of
nature.

As an example of his
best landscape work we
cannot do better than give
the picture The Grey of
Dawn, reproduced here in
colour. It possesses some
of the ethereal beauty of a
Corot and the dreamy sad-
ness of a Mauve. The
blending of the soft cool
tones shows the artist’s fine
sense of the gradation of
colour. Two pictures of
the romantic order which
also display Mr. Montague
Smyth’s best qualities are
Tendingthe Flock—Evening
and A Country Lane, while
On the Sussex Downs and
Gathering Wood, both
painted in a lighter key, appeal by their soft and
agreeable colouring. The figure in the last-

BY MONTAGUE SMYTH

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BY MONTAGUE SMYTH

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