Studio: international art (48.1910)

Studio- Talk

" HARVEST TIME, NORMANDY " (OIL PAINTING) BY WALTER DONNE

fanciful by instinct, but Mr. Austin Spare, another illustrators whose works were shown by drawings

of the same school, somewhat unduly labours in which their art has touched its highest for a

the eccentricity which seems an intrinsic part of moment—by their chefs-d'ceuvre, in fact. Mr. Lau-

Beardsley's drawings. At the same time repel- rence Housman's The Imprisoned Lady, and the

lent as are most of the characters in his drawings drawing we have mentioned by Mr. Gordon Craig,

for "The Book of Satyrs," one must admit that are instances. The corner in which Mr. James

their author is a draughtsman of a high order. Guthrie's work was gathered was rich too in the

The exhibition afforded a welcome opportunity imaginative feeling which has been characteristic

of seeing again early designs of Mr. Anning Bell, 'of this period of black and white art. And Phil

whose drawings with the pen have always had so May, Raven Hill, E. J. Sullivan, Daniel Vierge,

much native grace and inspiration. Everybody among others, supported the comprehensive

must have been glad to remember an early phase character of an exhibition which was far too inter-

of Mr. Charles Ricketts, represented in the illustra- esting for the off-season of August and September,

tions to " The Friar of Orders Grey" and his -

designs for woodcuts. There is much in all his Miss Ellen Grazebrook, whose sketch in tinted

earlier work which to our regret seemed to leave chalk and charcoal of the Vegetable Market, Cassel,

him when he turned from engraving to painting, we reproduce as a coloured supplement, studied

Mr. Baillie has been happy in representing the drawing for three years under Professor Legros at

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