Studio: international art (46.1909)

Reviews and Notices

walls, and cross screens and cases to accommo-
date the three hundred and eighteen examples of
work sent in. The completed front elevation of
the school is now one of the most strikingly unique
pieces of architecture in the city, as one would
expect, being the work of Charles R. Mackintosh.
Inside it is no less remarkable, and when completed
and opened in September, there will be few schools
so well adapted to the study of art as that at
Glasgow. _

The successful students secured the following
prizes: Sir Francis Powell’s prizes, for landscape in
water-colour, Chas. II. Scott; for landscape in
water-colour with figures, Howard Elcock. Sir
Jas. Flemming’s prizes, for landscape in oil, David
L. Adam; for landscape, with architecture, in oil,
R. Currie Robertson. Mr. A. N. Paterson’s prize
for Nature study, M. Gilmore M'llroy ; Mr. Arthur
Kay’s prize for painted study of draped model,
J. C. M'Hutcheon; Mr. W. M‘L. Young’s prize
for landscape with figure, Chas. Aird; Messrs.
Winsor & Newton’s prize for landscape in oil, with
water, Thomas Conn ; the Directors’ prize, for figure
composition, Alma F. M. Assafrey ; Mr. John
Wordie’s prize for etching, John C. M‘Hutcheon,
and the Club prize for programme cover for an
“At Home,” Chas. H. Scott. Besides these, other
prizes were awarded as follows : for set of architec-
tural sketches, David Robertson; pen-and-ink
drawing of some edifice, A. E. H. Miller; embroi-
dery, Phyllis Allan; enamelling, Mary Hogg;
silversmith work, Ina D. D. Campbell; and to the
Saturday class students, for embroidery, Minnie
Blackwood; for oil painting, Thomas Conn ; for
woodblock, Janie Parkes ; and for exhibition poster,
Alex. J. Musgrove,

Amongst the more notable work by the honorary
members, there was a fine vigorous painting, The
Bo'sun, by the popular Director of the School,
Mr. Francis H. Newbery, a type Mr. Newbery has
handled before with conspicuous success; a set of
daintily drawn and coloured book-plates, by Kath-
erine Cameron, R.S.W.; The Angel of the Nortf
by Ann Macbeth, a decorative fancy in the artist’s
best manner; Gossips, a charmingly naive study of
children in leafy setting, and The Pied Piper, with
clever colour combinations, by Annie M. Urquhart;
a set of wonderfully fanciful black-and-white
drawings, with touches of illumination, by Annie
French; one of those spontaneous pastel portraits
by Helen Paxton Brown, unmistakably like a
talented former student; a set of twelve illus-

trations to Swinburne’s Carols of the Year, dis-
tinguished by fine feeling and excellent drawing;
with quite a number of other excellent studies in
the various mediums.

Amongst the fifty or more examples of metal
work and embroidery, the standard of excellence
for which the school is noted was well maintained.
The accompanying illustrations will give some idea
of the quality of work being done in the em-
broidery class. The butterfly panel by Miss Helen
A. Lamb, as our coloured reproduction shows, is a
fine example of the new embroidery for which the
school is noted. The panel with cross and motto,
by Miss Douglas, executed in low tones as befits the
subject, is no less striking. On dark grey linen
ground, an arrangement in mauve, orange and blue
silk, with mingling of emerald-green and silver,
outlined with orange-coloured beads, composes in
a fine design. Morning Glory, by Miss Hogg, is
interesting alike in conception and execution. The
angel of the morn emerges from the sun with its
golden beams radiating in every direction. She is
girdled with floral and pearly loveliness, crowned
with golden circlet, robed with beauty and winged
with fleetness to carry the joy of brightness to
the uttermost parts of the earth. The whole
idea is well conveyed, the choice of colours
excellent, the treatment admirable. The fine old
art of the needle is, after all, a choicer occupa-
tion for clever women than some which they take
to nowadays. J. T.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES.

The Engraved Work of J. M. W Turner, R.A.
By W. G. Rawlinson. Yol. I. L;ne Engravings
on Copper, 1794-1839. (London: Macmillan &
Co., Limited.) f~i net.—Mr. W. G. Rawlinson
laid all lovers and students of the art of Turner
under an obligation of gratitude when he pub-
lished his learned and invaluable work on the
“ Liber Studiorum.” Now he has still further
increased their debt by a study and descriptive
catalogue of the engraved work of the master,
which, for completeness of knowledge and abso-
lute rightness of intuition, is not likely to be sur-
passed. For the collector, Mr. Rawlinson’s book
is quite indispensable, while for the student of the
methods of engraving, especially the finer and
more subtle developments of line engraving mixed
with etching, it is rich in learning and suggestion.
Perhaps no artist of a genius at all comparable
with Turner’s ever wrought so much expressly for

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