Studio: international art (46.1909)

Studio-Talk

William Pratt sends one
of those thoughtful studies
of peasant life and habit
that proclaim him a sin-
cere and earnest follower
of Millet. In his Home-
ward the weary workers
wend their way homeward
from the fields when the
sky assumes the shadows
of the evening hour. It
is a thousand pities that
George Pirie is so modest
in his contributions. A
White Cock is too meagre
a representation of the
work of such a thorough
artist. There is no mis-
taking the feathered fowl,
the whole presentment is
instinct with the atmo-
sphere of the farmyard.

portraits, one by William Cunningham Hector, a
new role for this clever young Glasgow artist;
another by P. A. Hay, R.S.W., one of our most
assiduous portraitists. In the upper galleries the
charmingly executed Portrait of Miss Brown, by
Maurice Grieffenhagen, is unjustly treated by the
hanging committee. The clever pastel portrait
of Miss Beta Macalister, by G. G. Anderson, is a
striking example of the work of an artist with a
future in portraiture. E. A. Hornel is represented
by three of his charming colour harmonies, in
which the figures are filled in with greater
definiteness and the tints with more alluring-
ness than before. A picture that claims atten-
tion is Mr. Francis Newbery’s In Summer Tune
(p. 314), in which a diffi-
cult problem has been
well handled.

the important commission of modelling a statue
to the memory of the great scientist Kelvin.
Amongst other interesting exhibits in this section
are works by Percy Portsmouth, A.R.S.A., and
John Tweed. J. T.

PARIS.—At the Dewambez Gallery the
exhibition of the Societe des Peintres et
Graveurs de Paris Moderne engaged
much of our attention. The majority
of these artists belonged to the Societe des Peintres
de Paris, but separated from this body in order
to form a still more exclusive group. They had
here an ensemble of really remarkable works de-
picting the beauties of the capital. Of the two

In sculpture, architec-
ture, and black and-white
chere are interesting con-
tributions. The model of
George Buchanan, by A.
McF. Shannan, A R.S.A.,
suggested by the quater-
centenary of the early
Scottish man of letters, is
a fine example of the
penetrative method of the
sculptor entrusted with
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MODEL FOR STATUE OF GEORGE BUCHANAN (1506-I582)

BY A. MCF. SHANNAN, A.R.S. A.