Studio: international art (47.1909)

Reviews and Notices

out special training appreciate the importance of
selecting colours that are not difficult or expensive
to reproduce and that will not fade quickly in the
sunlight to which the poster will probably be
exposed. _

More than a hundred designs were submitted to
the judges, Mr. Cecil Aldin, Mr. F. W. Gibson and
Mr. Charles Holme. They came from all parts of
the kingdom, and in subject covered the entire
field of advertisement, including even the Suffra-
gette agitation. After a careful examination the
first prize was awarded by the judges to a bold and
strong design advertising Allsopp’s beer. This
design, by Mr. S. Bagdatopulos, of Ealing, showed
a red-faced seventeenth-century toper, black robed
and with mandoline on his arm, leaning back with
an expression of intense appreciation of the con-
tents of the tankard he has just drained. The
design by Mr. J. W Lias, of Newton Abbott,
which gained the second prize, was clever both in
idea and execution. It was for Colman’s Mustard,
the pungency of which was amusingly suggested
by the figure of an old man frying his dinner, by
its heat alone, on a tin of mustard. The poster
for Skipper Sardines, by Mr. G. A. Boden, of Lin-
coln, with its wooden pier and black-sailed boats
on the high horizon, was in some ways admirable ;
but the orange-toned sky was unfortunate in colour
and out of harmony with the blue sea beneath it.
To Mr. Boden was given the third prize; and
honourable mentions were gained by Miss G. Hall
for a clever design advertising Suchard’s Chocolate ;
by Mr. F. ter Gast for a “Faust” poster; and by
Miss B. Severn, Miss W. Roberts, Mr. E. Hastain,
and Mr. S. Rogers. At the New Art School,
where the poster competition was held, the teach-
ing staff has just been strengthened by the
addition of Mr. Richard Jack, the well-known
portrait painter. Mr. Jack will take charge of
the life classes, where a great advance on the
good standard of drawing already achieved is con-
fidently expected. _

Last month, at Mr. Faulkner’s gallery in Baker
Street, the Calderon Art Society held its first
exhibition. The Calderon Art Society is com-
posed exclusively of past and present students of
the School of Animal Painting, and studies of
animal life therefore predominated in the exhi-
bition. Landscapes too were plentiful, and it
was interesting to see among them a charming
little painting by Sir Ernest Waterlow, R.A., who
is a past student in so far that he has worked

with the class several times in the summer open-
air sessions, held in the country. The prominent
artists who have worked with the class also include
Mr. Vereker M. Hamilton, who showed at the
exhibition some vigorous, sunny studies of Ken-
sington Gardens, and Miss Mildred Butler,

A. R.W.S., who was represented by a characteristic
water colour, Shades of Evening. Miss Jessie Hall,
another past student whose work is frequently
seen in London exhibitions, showed a poetic little
drawing of sheep in a fold, One Summer Eight;
and Mr. Edwin Noble, R.B.A., was at his best
in The Goat Herd. Miss Kate A. Smith, a student
who has been trained entirely at the School of
Animal Painting, exhibited a picture of sleeping
dogs, Tired Out, that was full of promise; and
Miss C. M. Sprott, in her oil study of a horse,
The Half-clipped Bay, showed an appreciation of
tone and a painter-like quality that should lead
her to greater achievement later on. Of several
landscapes by Miss Grace L. M. Elliott, the best
was one of a willow-bordered river; and close to
it hung a sympathetic painting of horses in a
meadow at twilight, with the moon rising above
the horizon, by Mrs. Guillemard. Countess
Helena Gleichen in Thistles had an interesting
painting of a stretch of open country with a rough,
weedy foreground; and other noticeable works in
colour were by Miss M. H. Congdon White, Miss
Agnes M. Goodall, Miss E. Blacklock, Miss
Caroline St. C. Graham, Miss M. Gilmore Mcllroy,
Mr. R. C. Weatherby, Miss M. Hollams, and
Mr. Frank Stonelake. A special word of praise
is due to the clever sketch portraits by Mrs. H.

B. Weiner. Miss Olive Branson, Miss M. E.

Hamilton, Mr. Cecil Beeching, and Miss Kate
A. Smith showed commendable drawings in
black-and-white, and Miss Mary A. Swan an ably
modelled bronze of a greyhound. The President
of ,the Society, Mr. W. Frank Calderon, contri-
buted to the exhibition some admirable studies of
animals, both modelled and painted, as well as
his picture, How Four Queens Found Sir Lancelot
Sleeping. W. T. W.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES.

Hampshire. Painted by Wilfrid Ball, R.E.,
described by Rev. Telford Varley, M.A. (London:
A. & C. Black.), 2oj'. net.—Hampshire is a county
so full of interest, whether in respect to its historical
connections or the great variety and beauty of its
landscape, as to make it a subject equally attractive
to the scholar and the artist. Both the literary and

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