Studio: international art (52.1911)

Studio- Talk

cally Mr. Leigh's first serious work in this direction; J. Aumonier, and Mr. Leslie Thomson. Its tradi-
most of his work hitherto having been in the shape tions are safest with Mr. Aumonier in such works
of wash and line drawings for publishers. He as A Byway; Hill Farm, Harbord; An Old Farm
studied at the Municipal Art School, Brighton, the House, and Handbord Mill; these are the things
Slade School, London, and at the Academie Julian which continue to this day the beautiful kind of
in Paris, under Jean Paul Laurens. naturalism that began with Gainsborough's land-
- scapes and seems to remain in England alone.

The two works by Mr. Herbert E. Butler which Mr. R. W. Allan's Waiting for the Boats is one
we reproduce are interesting as typical of Cornish of his best seapieces, and Mr. Leslie Thomson
subject and treatment. Though an artist of unusual has never excelled his Bass Rock. Mr. James
versatility and considerable individuality, Mr. Paterson too exhibited in his finest vein, notably
Butler has during the last few years come under with Clayton Mills and The Last of The Indomi-
the influence of the Newlyn School, as will be table (recently reproduced in these pages) : rarely,
seen in the pencil drawing, The Porch, Lausallos indeed, has he exceeded these subjects in the
Street, Polperro. Here the artist has successfully interest of the treatment and the dignity of the
obtained his effect without unduly revealing the point of view,
limitations of his medium—a fault which so many

draughtsmen make in using the lead pencil. 1 he Sketch Society held its second exhibition
Mr. Butler has an art
school at Polperro, in
Cornwall, where he gives
instruction in painting in
oil and water-colour. In
the summer he proposes
to take his class to Cau-
bedec, in Normandy.

The annual Landscape
Exhibitions held at
the Old Water - Colour
Society's Galleries by a
small group of painters
are always interesting,
and the one held last
month—the sixteenth of
the series—proved no
exception to the rule.
The artists exhibiting this
year were Messrs. R. ■ W.
Allan, J. Aumonier, T.
Austen Brown, J. S. Hill,
James Paterson, Leslie
Thomson, Moffat Lind-
ner, and J. Coutts Michie,
the two last being guests,
we believe. It must be
difficult for this group to
make additions or fill its
vacancies without loss of
character—the strictly
English character in
which it obtained its
fame, through the work
of Messrs. Peppercorn,
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; AT DUSK, THE WATCH HOUSE, FOLl'ERRO" (OIL PAINTING)

BY HERBERT E. BUTLER