Studio: international art (53.1911)

Studio- Talk

"Hampshire" (pastel) by r. gwelo goodman

country with aspirations. It leaves a door perfectly
open for obscure talent to assert itself. It gives
the necessary encouragement to general art im-
pulse, through the correspondence of its character
with the requirements of the many who, working
perhaps at art only in spare time, without means,
and without acquaintance with the conditions of
the art world, may nevertheless have considerable
talent.

Rarely does it fall to us to record such an
interesting local exhibition as that which after
being open for some two months, at the Municipal
Art Gallery, Kingston-on-Thames, is now on the
point of closing. Although containing less than
a hundred items, exclusive of a group of pottery
by the Martin Brothers, the works exhibited—
comprising lithographs, etchings, oil paintings,
water-colours, pencil and chalk drawings, and
bronzes—represent all the best elements in modern
art. A special interest attaches to the exhibition

as being the first to contain works acquired by the
Contemporary Art Society, recently formed under
influential auspices to further the acquisition ot
works of modern art for loan or gift to public
galleries. Among the fifteen works lent by the
society to this exhibition are six oil paintings by
Mr. William Nicholson, Mr. Augustus John, Mr.
Walter Sickert and others, and some interesting
water-colours by such well-known artists as Mr.
Mark Fisher, Mr. A. W. Rich, and Mr. David
Muirhead.

At the Brook Street Art Gallery. Mr. H. M.
Bateman, a vivacious caricaturist of the popular
press, has lately been exhibiting the original
drawings of his subjects. His sense of the
beautiful in technique certainly exceeds his sense
of it in life. A caricaturist is not out—as we say
—for beauty, so it might be argued that a sense
of it would only be an embarrassment to him.
Rowlandson, Caldecott, Pellegrini, and to-day Max

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