Studio: international art (46.1909)

Studio-Talk

“DRYING GROUND, COPENHAGEN” (ETCHING)
BY H. MULREADY STONE

selections from his plates which we reproduce will
enable readers to acquaint themselves with his pleasant
art. It is in such small and deliberate treatment as
The Corner Shop that we find Mr. Stone at his best,
and his vTork in this vein should bring him very
quickly to the forefront as an etcher.

At the Goupil Gallery the pastels of M. Simon
Bussy proved an attraction. They are decorative
impromptus, inspired by nature, but imaginative in
effect; their interest, however, being somewhat di-
minished by a tendency on the artist’s part to accept
a species of mere pattern work as a substitute
sometimes for other decorative possibilities in his
subjects. _

At the Ryder Gallery the delightful art of G. Leon
Little formed an interesting exhibition, for Mr. Little’s
methods sympathetically interpret the simplicity of
vision and the genuine love of the countryside which
seem the convincing elements of his pictures.

The Women’s International Art Club, whose tenth
exhibition closed in March at the Grafton Galleries,
is indeed to be congratulated upon the very high, all-
round standard attained in so large an exhibition.
Among the many works which had claims to individual
mention it would be impossible to omit the Grass of
Parnassus, by E. C. Austen Brown; Barbara, by
Mary Creighton; St. Nazaire de la Cite, by I. A.

this country of a valuable
ally, for besides being him-
self an etcher of consider-
able ability, he was, per-
haps, the best printer of
etchings this generation
has known, and those who
realise how much depends
on the way an etching is
printed will readily con-
cede his claim to remem-
brance on this account
alone.

We have derived con-
siderable pleasure from
the plates of Mr. H. Mul-
ready Stone, an etcher
who has only lately invited
opinions on his powers by
a recent exhibition at Mr.
Gutekunst’s gallery. The