Studio: international art (41.1907)

The New Gallery

Mr. Byam Shaw's The Caged Bird, and The Church Joubert, is definitely out of the beaten track. The

Porch, a well-suggested winter subject by Mr. F. statue, Lupercalia, by Mr. Conrad Dressier can be

Spenlove Spenlove. Mr. Melton Fisher's Songs of highly praised for its excellence of modelling and

Araby is a good record of an effect of lamplight; for its good suggestion of movement, and Mr. F.

and the little semi-nude, Reflections, by Mr. A. Derwent Wood's Echo, Mr. Alfred Drury's St. Mi-

Hitchens, and Mr. St. George Hare's scholarly chael, and Mr. Basil Gotto's A. Chichele Plowden,

and sincere picture A Passing Acquaintatice, are Esq., for their thoroughly accomplished treatment,

of real importance. The symbolical figure Man and his Burden, by the

Four landscapes stand out conspicuously among late Roscoe Mullins, is impressively conceived and

the better things of this class which have been is free from any touch of extravagance. Among

given places in the show. Mr. Alfred East's The the other things in the exhibition which ought not

Dignity of Autumn is one of his finest efforts, to be overlooked are two architectural studies, one,

splendidly decorative in design and most beau- an amazingly clever sketch, by Mr. Sargent, and

tiful in its well balanced arrangement of tones of the other, the Gateway of St. John's College, Cam-

golden colour; Mr. J. I,. Pickering's Sylvia's Pool, bridge, by Mr. W. Logsdail; a series of illustrative

largely felt and robustly treated, and Mr. J. Coutts drawings by Mr. H. J. Ford ; some crayon por-

Michie's reticent and broadly handled Among the traits by Mr. C. E. Ritchie; the miniatures by

Silent Hills, are both admirable in their pictorial Mrs. M. L'ewellyn, Mrs. A. E. Emslie, Mrs.
qualities, and have the real ro-
manticist sentiment; and the
large painting of The Gorge,
Fontainebleau, by Mr. Hughes- !
Stanton, is commendably digni-
fied, and is thoroughly sound in
its quiet naturalism. Mr. Moffat :
Lindner's Amsterdam, Mr. Mon- j

Mrs. Dods-Wi^

mospheric marsh-land landscape, | '^^SfeJ^fcfew

and Mr. Leslie Thomson's lumi- i
nous On the Links, have all

particular claims upon the con- H | wjr^

sideration of lovers of nature:

and there are two little canvases

by Mr. Fred Yates, Snow at

Rydal and Snow at Rydal Park,

which, the first one especially, !

could bear comparison with the

works of the greatest masters of ; Hi* ''

landscape. Mr. Yates sees nature j rJm__ "'*^S|^jijta|^^m^

with the eye of a poet, but in j ■ . ' : i

seeking for poetic expression he
does not forget to explain himself
through the medium of skilful <
and purposeful craftsmanship.

There is a little good sculpture,
some of which, like the large | • '*•, \

equestrian figure Richard Neville,

Earl of Warwick, by Mr. F. " at the window" by t. austen brown

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