Studio: international art (46.1909)

Studio-Talk

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A CASTLE IN SWITZERLAND

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seniors of the Society, Lepere and Billotte, the
former showed several pictures which were on view
last spring at the Nationale and an important series
of plates and wood engravings which displayed to
advantage his conscientious observation and his
sureness of execution. M. Rene Billotte showed
also a series of works which were doubly interest-
ing, first on account of
their exquisite colouring,
and secondly because they
perpetuate aspects of cer-
tain quarters of Paris which
have now disappeared. It
is most interesting and at
the same time most enjoy-
able to wander with these
artists among the wonders
and the cuiiosities of the
great city—to view with
Jules Adler and Bejot the
Luxembourg, with Chapuis
the Pont-Neuf and Ivry,
with Dufresne the circuses
and theatres, with Fouge-
rousse and Gabriel Rous-
seau the Boulevards, with
Louis Gillot the banks of
the Seine, with Gaston
Prunier the faubourgs
and the factories, and the

William S. Horton, who
has attracted a good deal of
attention at the Salons of
the Societe Nationale and
at the Salon d’Automne
the last few years, has
had an important exhibi-
tion at Petit’s Galleries.
Horton has made his speci-
ality the Swiss cantons
about the Lake of Geneva,
the neighbourhood of Montreux and Vevey, sleep-
ing villages, trees powdered with hoar-frost, fields
sprinkled with rime, snow-clad roofs, romantic
castles. Born at Grand Rapids (Michigan), he
was in Paris a pupil of Benjamin Constant; but in
truth he evolved for himself his own technique by
faithful and loving study of Nature herself. This

BY WILLIAM s. HORTON

HOTEL DE VILLE, MARSEILLES” (DRAWING)

BY FELIX ZIEM

bridges with Vauthrin and
Serval. Mr. Frank Boggs
has been most successful
with his luminous little
landscapes; he is of all
our painters the one who
most reminds us of Jong-
kind, and the State has
acquired for the Luxem-
bourg one of the works
which we herewith repro-
duce.

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