Studio: international art (42.1908)

Studio-Talk

the effect is produced by extreme loading of the buttons I should mention A Fresh Water Carrier

pigment; still one is bound to confess that the of Toledo, by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, a

artist has lost nothing of subtlety and beauty of water-colour with all the robust vigour of oil;

gradation, but has achieved a great success. three striking contributions by Mr. James Pater-

- son; portraits that compelled attention, by

Several attractive Studio Exhibitions are to the P. A. Hay • Eastern studies by R. W. Allan,

fore at the moment of writing. Mr. Hamilton R.W.S., that invited comparison with the Melville

Hay's water-colour drawings, recently reproduced water-colours in an adjoining room; outdoor

in Mr. Dixon Scott's book on " Liverpool," serve sketches by Geo. Houston, distinct in treatment

to inform and maintain civic interest in a manner from all the other pictures in the room; a gem-like

only too rarely attempted. The drawings, vellums representation of life at Tangier, by Hans Hansen;

and embroideries of J. Herbert and Frances Mac- one of those mellowy, dreamy masterpieces by Mr.

nair, exhibited at the Sandon Studios, form a D. Y. Cameron, in which the colours merge and

unique collection of very imaginative work com- blend into a soothing harmony that entrances ;

prehended perhaps by comparatively few people and others which helped to make the exhibition

through the subtlety of its poetic feeling and eminently successful,
very characteristic repre-
sentation.

A most interesting col-
lection of pictures pro-
duced for illustration of
books has been arranged
in the large hall of the old
Blue-coat school by the
" Liverpool Courier," who
are entitled to much praise
for the first local venture
of the kind. The leading
designers and illustrators
of the day of the most
original type have con-
tributed work of extreme
interest, and the books they
have embellished with their
skill and fancy may be
viewed alongside in the
same exhibition.

H. B. B.

GLASGOW. —
At the twenty-
eighth annual
exhibition of
work by members of the
Royal Scottish Society of
Painters in Water-Colours,
recently held at the Fine
Art Institute, in all one
hundred-and-sixty examples
of the best water-colour
work of the year were
shown. Amongst some of

the more notable contri- " Argyll's lodging, Stirling " from thb etching by

susan f. crawford