Studio: international art (52.1911)

Studio-Talk

STUDIO-TALK.

(From Our Own Correspondents.)

IONDON.—The Royal Society of Painters
in Water Colours has no wavering stan-
dard—the men in it are too good for that.
—V In the present exhibition, which remains
open for another month, there are many pictures
which the visitor should not overlook, such as the
Norfolk Duck-Pond, After the Storm, and Chateau
Gaillard, by Mr. Robert Little ; the Shipping Scene,
by Mr. H. S. Tuke; Glastonbury TV, by Mr. Alfred
Parsons ; Windswept Trees, by Mr. Walter Crane ;
Draughts-Players, by Mr. H. S. Hopwood; Violas
and Aubretias, by Miss Mildred Butler ; Violets, by
Mr. Francis James; Eve, by Mr. F. Cadogan Cowper;
The House of God, by Miss Rose Barton ; Place
House, Titchfield, Hants, by Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton;
The Wedding of Sylvanus, by Mr. Charles Sims ;
Falmouth in the Rain, by Mr. Napier Hemy; At
Caitloch and The Last of the Indomitable, by Mr.
James Paterson; Serenade, by Mr. E. J. Sullivan ;
A Cotswold Shepherd, by Mr. A. S. Hartrick;
Helmsdale Harbour and Portnahaven, by Mr.
R. W. Allan; Windfalls, by Mr. Herbert Alexander;
Till-a-Dreams, by Mrs. Stanhope Forbes; and Storm
Clouds, by Mr. Arthur Rackham. In many of these

there are points open to criticism—Mr. Rackham's
way of working over colour with opaque black ink,
for instance, is open to objection—but all of them,
and, of course, others besides—notably Mr. Anning
Bell's impressive subject from the New Testament,
the screen of three pictures by Princess Louise,
and the President's own delicate art—are the features
of the present exhibition, and in addition there are
the Sargents. Mr. Sargent's contributions still
retain the distinction of being the most thought-
provocative in the exhibitions to which they are
made. His style does not change, but his subjects
reflect the infinite variation of nature itself.

Mr. Sargent has a disciple in Mr. W. G. von
Glehn, who has held a one-man show at the Goupil
Gallery. Mr. von Glehn's art has a noticeable
quality, that of gaiety; it has the note of work
done on a holiday; amateurs keep this note, but
not painters—they would be greater painters if
they did. For art to be such that it can be spoken
of in the same breath with Mr. Sargent's means
that it is further removed than anything, except in
the sense mentioned, from the art of an amateur.

The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours,
unlike the Old Water Colour Society, does waver in