Studio: international art (53.1911)

Studio- Talk

Beerbohm, however, who between them have beauty in the incidental with the more sombre,

certainly covered the ground in every direction, brooding, emotional quality of Chinese paintings,

have shown this not to be so. All the native qualities of Chinese painting, ot

colour and of mood, seem, so far as we can gather,

With the close of the picture season several of intensified by the effect of time in the very direction

the galleries filled up their walls with etchings. aimed at by the painters themselves.
Messrs Dowdeswell, in their show of modern
original etchings, included some very interesting

plates by the Hon. Walter James, Messrs. Ernest At the Fine Art Society we have had an exhibi"
Lumsden, Randolph Schwabe, J. Hamilton tion of fantasy lately in Mr. A. Duncan Carse's fans-
Mackenzie, Oliver Hall, Albany E. Howartb, not another of the many attempts with the Conder
Frank Mason, and others. Messrs P. and D.Colnaghi fan tradition, which, by the way, was too individual
and Obach exhibited a collection of drawings and to be successfully passed on. Mr. Carse's witty
etchings by Prof. Alphonse Legros, which was fancy makes his designs sometimes very attractive,
comprehensive and as characteristic as admirers

of the great draughtsman could wish. We are reproducing herewith a water-colour

■- sketch, Harvest Time—Evening, by Mr. E. Davies,

At the Baillie Gallery there is a choice collection an excellent example of economy and simplicity of

of Japanese colour prints on view in juxtaposition treatment of a quite difficult theme which the

with Chinese paintings. It is very interesting to artist's sketch-book has furnished. For the past

compare the matter-of-fact, intellectual vivacity of fourteen years Mr. Davies has been a member of

the Japanese and their exquisitely trained serse of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colour,

"thirlmere" (pastel)
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by r. gwelo goodman