Studio: international art (41.1907)

The Royal Academy, igoy

BRONZE STATUETTE: "INSPIRATION"

BY ALFRED DRURY, A. R.A.

(Study for Statue for principal entrance,
Victoria and Albert Museum)

not pleasant in colour effect, which surely is the
raison d'etre for flooding a picture in these red-
brown tones. His dainty talent is far happier in
Sweetness and Light. Mr. Harrington Mann ex-
hibits a portrait of great success in A Little Girl
with Dolls. Miss Constance Halford in a picture
called Ln Summer Time shows feeling for effect of
drapery painted from a frankly fanciful point of
v.ew. The Ballerina of Mr. Melton Fisher reveals
the swift and certain skill of high accomplishment,
though we are not attracted by the colour.

Last year Mr. Frank Craig's picture was bought
with the Chantrey Fund. His picture this year, The
Maid, is larger though not different in style. Mr.
Craig is the acknowledged successor to Mr. Abbey,
and like Mr. Abbey he has made a reputation in

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illustration. The faults of this work are those
of its type. The endeavour to arrive at a
decorative scheme of strong colours makes the
artist leave atmosphere out of the question, so
we find the shafts in this picture, near and far
away, all the same tone. The treatment of the
central figure under the unfurled banner, is certainly
of high decorative order. Mr. Gerald Moira returns
in Zephyr and Aurora to a class of subject in
which he made his reputation, and shows in it
those faculties, which are so peculiarly his, of
conceiving vividly a poetic conception and giving
it shape in the form of true decoration. An Early
Victorian by Mr. William Logsdail is full of ex-
cellent modelling and craftsmanship, and compels
attention by the high-water mark of its skill.

(Continued on page 49.)

BRONZE STATUETTE : " KNOWLEDGE "

BY ALFRED DRURY, A. R. A.

(Companion to "Inspiration")