Studio: international art (41.1907)

Alfred Heater house, R.A.

Rops, besides the fault-
less figure etchings of
Armand Rassenfosse.
Selwyn Brinton.

The following Canadian
artists have formed a group
to be known as the
Canadian Art Club:—
Homer Watson, R.C.A.
(Doon), Franklin Brownell,
R.C.A. (Ottawa), William
Cruikshank, R.C.A. (To-
ronto), Curtis Williamson,
R.C.A. (Toronto), Edmund
Morris, A.R.C.A.(Toronto),
William Smith, A.R.C.A.
(St. Thomas), W. E. Atkin-
son, A.R.C.A. (Toronto),
and J. Arch Brown (To-
ronto). All of these have
withdrawn from the Ontario
Society of Artists, with the
"maternite" by antonio ugo exception of Mr. Cruik-

shank, who retains his
honorary membership. The

among present-day Sicilian sculptors he is perhaps club will have associated with it a strong group of
distinguished by the greatest endowment of real Montreal painters, and also representative men of
genius. " Modest and retiring," writes Mr. Sidney London, Glasgow, and New York, and works by
Churchill, H.B. M.'s Consul at Palermo, who has certain Canadian artists not members of the club
followed Ugo's work with keen interest, " very little will be invited. The first exhibition will be held
is seen of him professionally. His studio is a work- towards the end of November. The object of the
shop and not a show-place." Recently, when King organisation is by exhibiting annually a good selec-
Edward VII. was at Palermo, His Majesty much tion of pictures to give a clearer idea of the progress
admired Ugo's work, and ordered that one of his of Canadian art than is possible in the more hete-
latest productions should be sent to Buckingham rogeneous exhibitions.
Palace. It is interesting to recall that Sicily was

renowned for its plastic creations in early ages— . »tatr „ xt t,tt,, ht a tt-ti

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even before the days of the Roman Empire /%

medallists of Catania and Siracusa had become / \ COLOUR SKETCHES OF
famous. / V ALFRED WATERHOUSE, R A.

The Sala Russa, with Seroff's portrait of the
Emperor Nicholas JI,, in the uniform of the Scots The name of Alfred Waterhouse will live long
Greys, and Maliavin's multi-coloured peasant women, in the history of English architecture, for his
must be traversed ere we leave the building, and out- professional career, which terminated about three
side we find a feature of new interest in the Belgian years before his death in 1905, was crowded with
Pavilion, arranged by Professor Gevaert. The masterly achievements which definitely assure to
entrance, with its amber-coloured marble and its him a position among the foremost architects of
fountain, at once delights us, and within we find a the nineteenth century. It would be tedious to
very well chosen selection of the modern Belgian enumerate all the monumental buildings which
school. In the smaller rooms I was delighted with have come into existence as the fruit of his fertile
a triptych in water-colour, Bruges of the Old Times, genius. Manchester, where he commenced prac-
by Ferdinand Khnopff; and found near him seven tise in 1853 ; Liverpool, where he was born
drawings by that genius of moral obliquity, Felicien twenty-three years before (his family, however,
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