Studio: international art (54.1912)

Studio- Talk

STUDIO-TALK. kind. Mr William Nicholson and Mr. Augustus

John are to be seen this year in full force. The
(From Our Own Correspondents.) . , ., , r , . r

1 curious pleasure provided lor the eye m passing Irom

LONDON.—The Royal Society of Painters in the highly strung manipulation of colour in Mr.
Water Colours are holding their Winter John's panels to Mr. Nicholson's The Golden Valley
Exhibition, which closes on December 19. is a master-stroke upon the part of the hanging
_> Some one artist generally makes these ex- committee. Mr. Nicholson has never been better
hibitions witness before everything else to his own than in this picture; its intellectual presentment
mastery in the art which it is the profession of the is coupled with the particular vein of sentiment
society to uphold. Sometimes it is Mr. Sargent which most inspires him. Farther along the wall
(who is not exhibiting this time), sometimes Mr. is his Zinnias, in our opinion one of the greatest
Anning Bell, sometimes Mr. Clausen ; this season flower paintings of modern times. Mr. Walter
perhaps it is Mrs. Laura Knight, whose Children Greaves's Chelsea Regatta is replete with the detail
Playing, The Deck Chair, and Candlelight are which in his early work he had a peculiar gift in
remarkable examples of her brilliant Impressionism. handling, the whole brought into harmony by deft
A very interesting feature of this exhibition are the touches that play over the surface and consolidate
beautiful pencil drawings of Mr. J. W. North, A.R.A. the grouping. Other pictures which should not
Mr. Clausen is in his finest vein. Mr. Charles be overlooked are The Old Mill House, by Mr.
Sims cannot be said to be at his best this year; Mervyn Laurence; An Old Man, by Mr. A. A.
but a great success is achieved by Mr. Cayley Wolmark; Mr. W. G. von Glehn's The Mill Race
Robinson in his ALneas and his Chieftains after —Essex; Mr. G. W. Lambert's Souvenir de
the Fall of Troy. Its one fault, explained perhaps Noel; Mr. Jose Weiss's Poplars and Pool; Mr.
by his recent association with the theatre, is that W. J. Leech's The White Bridge, Venice, and A
the pose of the figures is more in keeping with the Circle, Venice; Mr. S. J. Peploe's Tulips; Mr.
convention of the footlights
than that of painting, which
allows more intimate ex-
pression of gesture. Pictures
which must be noticed by
visitors are Morning: an the
Wye, by Mr. Eyre Walker ;
On a Buckinghamshire
Common, by Mr. Alfred
Parsons, R.A. ; Gree?i and
Silver, by Mr. Walter Crane;
Plumpton Mill, Sussex, by
Mr. J. G. Dollman ; Elphin-
stone Tower, by Mr. Robert
Little ; In the Marketplace,
Biskra (skied), by Mr. H.S.
Hopwood ; The Flashed by
Mr. Henry E. Crocket;
Stocks, by Miss A. M. Swan ;
and The Frog, by Mr. Edwin fa
Alexander. Mr. Walter
Bayes's work should be
studied, and Mr. Walter
West's landscapes mark an
interesting departure from
his familiar genre.

The Goupil Gallery Salon
for 1911 perhaps surpasses
previous exhibitions of the ■ zinnias" (Goufil Gallery Salon) by william Nicholson^

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