Studio: international art (49.1910)

Studio-Talk

the Royal Society of British Artists. Needlework
by Josine Van Rappard; Heyst Lands, by Beatrice
Paine ; Worship, by M. E. Kindon ; The Buttercup,
by Mrs. G. Blakeney Ward, and On the Wa?idle,
by Mrs. Marquita Moberly, were among the most
successful canvases, but noticeable works were
shown by Miss Sybil Dowie, Miss E. Townley
Millers, Miss Elise Thompson, Miss Beatrice
Bright, and Miss Lily Defries. Mrs. Maud Hall
Neale’s portrait of Winifred, daughter of f. Merrett
Wade, Esq., was happy in capturing expression, and
My Sitting Room, by the same artist, was excellent
as an interior painting. Mrs. Louise Jopling con-
tributed one of the most important works in At the
Gaiety. Miss M. A. Sloane’s etchings are always a
feature of this Exhibition, and there was a small
but interesting Crafts section.

At the Goupil Gallery in February, Mr. William
Shackleton’s exhibition showed an artist with

much imagination, sense of atmosphere and design
and great originality. An excessive sweetness of
colour, however, leaves a cloying taste with the
spectator, which modifies the praise the work
would otherwise demand.

Mr. Maxwell Armfield’s exhibition at the Lei-
cester Galleries was another in which the artist
showed the personal element which is always so
interesting. Above everything else Mr. Armfield
is a designer, a pattern-maker, even his most
charming landscapes have the marked feature of
design. At the same galleries Mr. J. MacWhirter,
R.A., also held a very successful exhibition of
water-colours, containing many of the Italian and
Swiss scenes, the spirit of which has often attracted
him away from scenes by which he is better known
but not better represented.

One of the most excellent of the smaller exhibi-

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