Studio: international art (47.1909)

Studio- Talk

“rain clouds on the maas” (water-colour)

(.New Gallery) BY MOFFAT LINDNER

ample credit to an artist whose work is always
fascinating in its power and originality; and such
paintings as Mr. D. Y. Cameron’s Crifel., Mr. Mark
Fisher’s The River Side, Mr. James Henry’s
Malham Cove and Autumn Morning on the Ure,
Mr. Coutts Michie’s The Valley Village, Mr. R. W.
Allan’s Toivards Sunset, and Mr. Peppercorn’s The
Woodland Dell, add distinction and variety to the
collection. The sculpture was not very important
but included some good things by Mr. Basil Gotto
and Mr. Albert Toft; and the applied art contri-
butions of Mr. Nelson Dawson, Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Gaskin, Mr. J. P. Cooper and Mr. H.
Stabler can be frankly commended.

The Dowdeswell Galleries recently afforded us
an opportunity of studying the work of the late
John Fulleylove, one of the most successful of the
members of the Royal Institute. If the artist
disappointed in pictures of a large scale, his was
the not common gift of synthesising many small
details in a sketch with freedom of touch and
pleasant suggestion of finish. He was always at
his best in his sketches, as in those of The
Orangery, Versailles, Ely Cathedral, Edmonton
Churchyard, and Jesus Lock, Cambridge.

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Exquisite is perhaps just the word to apply to
the art of Mr. Roger Fry, especially in such
panels as Rome and the silvery Verona, and the
fruit-pieces shown in his recent exhibition at
the Carfax Gallery, but when out of tender
colour come monsters, as in his illustrations of
Dante’s “Inferno,” we could wish that in concep-
tion they were less jejune. There was a delicate
kind of beauty in every panel, but the subjects
seemed viewed nearly always through a formula—
never directly. __

We carried away the impression from the Old
Water Colour Society’s present exhibition that
it is up to their highest standard if attention
is not at once claimed by new and imme-
diately striking works. Mr. R. Anning Bell in
The Arrow is more interesting than ever, and
there are some particularly beautiful little works
by Mr. George Clausen, R.A. The President,
Sir E. A. Waterlow, and Mr. J. W. North, both
contribute in their best vein. Loch Alsh, by Mr.
Robt. Allan, must rank with the chief of his
successes. Mr. Francis James has not painted his
bouquets of flowers more daintily than this year.
Air. David Murray in At Bordighera—Grey Day