Studio: international art (55.1912)

Studio-Talk

STUDIO-TALK.

(From Our Own Correspondents.)

LONDON.—The landscape exhibitions held
annually at the Old Water Colour
Society’s Galleries have always been re-
markable for their pastoral character and
the intimacy of the appeal to lovers of the English
country-side. A new element, however, made itself
felt this year in the work of recent members, though
among them Mr. Alfred Parsons still perfectly
carried on the old tradition, never in fact having
been in better vein than on these congenial walls.
Mr. Lavery’s art has not quite made itself at home
in these surroundings. Mr. Lamorna Birch in
subject-matter strikes the right key, but like Mr.
Adrian Stokes he has not the secret of the pleasant
palette with which the old members of this ex-
hibition have annually bid defiance to the innova-
tions of the modern artists’ colourmen. The late

Mr. J. Aumonier’s art was commemorated by
seven pictures, and Mr. R. W. Allan and Mr.
Leslie Thomson were well represented.

Few of our younger landscape painters have
attracted so much attention as Mr. Hayley Lever, an
impressionist of daring resource and with an unusual
gift for eloquent design. Until recently he showed
a great deal at the Royal Society of British Artists,
where his exhibits were always eagerly looked for.
We are reproducing herewith one of the latest of
his works, The Port of St. Ives.

The Senefelder Club for the advancement of
Artistic Lithography has been holding its third
exhibition at the Goupil Gallery. The charm of
lithography rests with black and grey. In the
management of black Miss Ethel Gabain provided
a good example in The Striped Petticoat, and Mr.
M. A. J. Bauer excelled in the use of grey. There