Studio: international art (53.1911)

Studio- Talk

webbington house, somersetshire (See i. 143) b. j. may, f.r.i.b.a., architect

STUDIO-TALK Thg new Copyright Bul introduced by the

(From Our Own Correspondents.) Government has, after being read a second time in

LONDON.—Last month we referred in this the House of Commons, been sent upstairs to

place to the exhibition at the Goupil Grand Committee, where a large number of amend-

Gallery in Regent Street of works by ments have been raised and debated. An im-

—J Mr. Walter Greaves and to the artist's portant modification has been introduced into the

relation with Whistler. In view of the great clause which fixes the term of copyright at fifty

amount of attention which this exhibition has years after the author's death, a proviso being

attracted, the accompanying reproductions of some added which permits reproduction at the expira-

of the works included therein will be of interest tion of twenty-five years on payment of a 10 per

to those of our readers who have not had an cent, royalty, which is definitely assured to the

opportunity of visiting the exhibition itself. author's widow and children.

At the Baillie Gallery Miss Pamela Coleman
Smith has been exhibiting leaves from a sketch-
book which she takes to concerts and in which
she follows with a brush of colour her musical
impressions. Of course the interest here is less
with the method than with the success in re-
cording something that will evoke again for
others impressions similar to those received from
music. The classical instance of such success
was Beardsley's illustration to the Ballade III.
of Chopin, but in an exhibition in a room ad-
joining Miss Coleman Smith's at the Baillie
Gallery Mr. James Pryde had given in a series
of paintings—though only one claimed the
ground plan of webbi'Ngton house, Somersetshire musical title—just such an interpretation of the
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