Studio: international art (40.1907)

The Scottish Modern Arts Association

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MacGillivray or Mr. Bertram Mackennal, or a
water-colour by Mr. R. B. Nisbet, Mr. Edwin
Alexander or Mr. James Cadenhead. In the
Luxembourg may be seen two characteristic
works by Mr. J. H. Lorimer, in Edinburgh
none. In Munich, Vienna, Berlin and other
centres, but not in the cities of the country
cf their birth, may be adequately studied the
works of Lavery, Henry, Hornel, Wingate, David
Murray, James Paterson, Campbell Mitchell, Robert
Burns, C. H. Mackie and the brothers Noble, most
of whom are dealt with in the special Spring
number of The Studio this year. Glasgow and
Aberdeen, it is true, possess collections of note and
distinction, but they can hardly be said to be either
adequate or comprehensive.

To remove this slur upon our national patriotism,
taste and good sense, the Scottish Modern Arts
Association has been called into existence, the
objects of which are to ensure the preservation of
representative examples of Scottish art, more par-
ticularly by acquiring works of contemporary Scot-
tish artists, and also to assist in the enriching of
Scottish public art collections.

To realise to the full what the absence of such a
body as the one just constituted means to art in
Scotland, it is only necessary to take a glance back-

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THE SCOTTISH MODERN arts
ASSOCIATION. BY A. STODART
WALKER, CHAIRMAN OF EXE-
CUTIVE.

For many years not only Scotsmen but all
intelligent students of modern art, and more
especially foreigners, have been struck by the re-
markable anomaly that while Scotland possesses
a School of Painting
and Sculpture which, by
its very vitality and dis-
tinction, has aroused- the
critical and practical ap-
preciation of connoisseurs
and buyers ^throughout
Europe and America, there
was neither a Scottish
National Gallery of Mo-
dern Art nor any Society
to secure representative
specimens of its best con-
temporary artistic work as
national possessions. To
emphasise the existing
state of affairs it may be
pointed out that there is
not to be found, in any
public gallery in the Scot-
tish capital, a single portrait
by Sir James Guthrie, a
landscape by Mr. E. A.

Walton, an etching by
Mr. D. Y. Cameron, a
piece of plastic work
either by Mr. Pittendrigh

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