Studio: international art (55.1912)

Studio-Talk

PENDANT IN SILVER, PEARLS, AND
ENAMEL (“THE FINDING OF
ORPHEUS.”) BY ALEXANDER
FISHER

series of water-colours of York-
shire, the Southern Counties,
and Normandy, by Mr. Arthur
Reginald Smith, a painter
with a very pleasant style in
water-colour, ably managing
difficult impressions, but par-
ticularly successful in pastoral
vein, in the treatment of green
country-side.

On a previous occasion we

PENDANT IN GOLD, MOONSTONES, AND
ENAMEL (“THE METEOR”). BY
ALEXANDER FISHER

Christian Symons at the Goupil Gallery did justice
to the art of a painter who in his lifetime did not
come into the fullness of the recognition he
deserved. His sketches are often marred by faults
of taste in colour, but as an executant of the
school of Mr. Sargent he was often within measur-
able distance of his great master. An ardent Im-
pressionist, Mr. Symons seemed to decline all but
the most difficult problems. His versatility was
extreme and the range of his subjects vast, whether
in oils or water-colours ; among other things he
was an eminently successful flowerpainter.

BUCKLE IN REPOUSSE, SILVER, AND ENAMEL
BY ALEXANDER FISHER

gave an example of etching by Mr. Percy Lancaster, of Southport.
The print of Rain and Thames Barges which we reproduce as a
supplement shows that this young artist is steadily but surely
progressing.

A painter with a quite lyrical sense of certain phases of natural
beauty seen in districts of English lake and mountain scenery is Mr.
Elliot Seabrooke, who at the New English Art Club has for some time
been steadily drawing attention to himself as a truly individual artist.
His recent exhibition at the Carfax Gallery has greatly added to his

reputation, consisting as it did of a series
of oil paintings and drawings in the sub-
jects that obtain from him his sincerest
effort.

The Memorial Exhibition of the late W.

PENDANT IN GOLD, ENAMEL,
AND OPALS. BY ALEXANDER
FISHER

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