Studio: international art (48.1910)

Studio-Talk

portrait of Mrs. Smith-
Ryland is, as regards the
texture of the dress, a
tour-de-force, but the face
painting is commonplace.
Other pictures of note
were a large marine work
by Mr. C. Napier Hemy,
a church interior by Mr.
James G. Laing, a High-
land landscape by Mr. R.
W. Allan; Bannocks and
Butter, a study of a girl
in blue pinafore, by Mr.
Gemmell Hutchison;
Mr. A. K. Brown's dainty
Sky and Heather; Miss
Emily Paterson's boldly
conceived and spiritedly
painted The Church, Mon-
treuil-sur- Mer, and two
lovely flower studies by
Miss Katherine Cameron.

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LASGOW.—
The fall of
the year brings
the artists
back from the sketching
grounds, and with their

"duke street, kilmarnock" by Andrew law . return comes a plethora

of exhibitions and one-

which there were several, particularly The Snow man shows to the city. There has just been held
Cloud and an evening scene, are of fine quality, the Seventh Exhibition of the Glasgow Society of
and Mr. J. H. Lorimer's Flying Buttresses oj Artists; The Scottish Art Circle has courted public
Beauvais is an inspiring vision of architectural favour a second time; The Glasgow Society of
loveliness. Lady Artists has again demonstrated that all the

activities of the modern woman are not in the
Two of the finest winter landscapes were Mr. direction of politics; and Patrick Downie has been
James Kay's December and Mr. Ewan Geddes' showing, in Warneuke's Gallery, a collection of his
Winter—the former, however, obviously the work interesting landscapes and sea pictures. The three
of an oil painter in its virile handling and solidity, societies named are active and aggressive. With
the latter tender and delicate as the snowflakes the full, robust vigour of youth, they encourage a
themselves. Mr. James Riddell, in his Belgian freedom and unconventionality denied by the
Peasant, has worked with certitude and effect; his older and more sedate institutions, and it is due to
colour values and tonal quality are both good. In one, at least, that steady and remarkable progress is
Taking it Easy Mr. Henry W. Kerr showed a de- to be noted in the work of some of the younger
lightfully humorous study of a peasant smoking men of the Glasgow School,
and dreaming. Gem-like brilliance and purity of -

colour characterise the drawings of Anstruther by At the Exhibition of the Society of Artists some
Mr. R. M. G. Coventry, but the artist has made no hundred and thirty works by members were
attempt to realise the " atmosphere " of this quaint hung by the Committee at the Fine Art Institute's
old Fife fishing town. Mr. P. A. Hay's large galleries on a specially arranged background, and

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