Studio: international art (55.1912)

Studio-Talk

fine display of drawings by Mr. J. D. Fergusson.
Although this artist has identified his sympathies
with the Rhythmists, the Post-Impressionists, with
everything that is supposed to anticipate the day
after to-morrow, he has been sufficient of an artist
to retain the characteristics of his own peculiar gift
—the gift for vivid realism, which cannot, we think,
find its most congenial field within the abstractly
decorative limitations imposed by the tenets of the
new beliefs to which all but in act Mr. Fergusson
signifies his allegiance.

At the same gallery Miss Jessie Stewart Dismore
lately exhibited decorative compositions, naive in
outline and composition to the point of provoking
antagonism in any spectator who in these days,

TEAPOT IN WROUGHT SILVER WITH CARVED IVORY
PANELS AND KNOB. BY ALEXANDER FISHER

when the most outrageous things are taken seriously,
is prepared to take them with greater seriousness
than Miss Dismore intended. The sense of
pattern and of colour in these drawings suggests
that she has resources of talent of which we do not
get a full exposition in these particular fantasies.

The above exhibitions have been followed at
the Stafford Galleries by some firmly executed,
penetrative drawings, cynical scenes from the life,
and portraits, by M. Hermann-Paul, carried out in
pencil, pastel, and coloured chalk. Our readers
will remember the study of Cezanne by this artist,
reproduced in a recent number.

We have much pleasure in giving on this and
the next page some illustrations of recent work by

BUCKLE IN SILVER AND ENAMEL

BY ALEXANDER FISHER

Mr. Alexander Fisher, showing that rare taste
which has always characterised the creations of
this master of the art of manipulating the precious
metals and enamelling.

Messrs. Dowdeswell’s Galleries have contained a

WINE-FLAGON IN SILVER REPOUSSE WITH ENAMEL
DECORATION (BACCHUS AND VINE). BY ALEXANDER
FISHER

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