Studio: international art (55.1912)

New School of Colour-Printing

other, to produce the deep rich black of the child’s
cloak. I wish it had been possible to reproduce here
also The Patchwork Quilt and The Moon and /,
two of Mr. Lee Hankey’s most appealing colour-
prints, delightful in their pictorial sentiment. The
vigorous, breezy marine pieces of that admirable
draughtsman and painter of the sea and shipping,
and the folk who live by the sea, Mr. Nelson
Dawson, are represented here by three charac-
teristic prints. Scarborough we give in its own
harmonious tones of green, grey, and brown—a
very live pictorial vision. In this, as in Scotch
Herring Boats at Sea, Mr. Dawson has been very
happy in suggesting the actual movement of wind
and water and craft. Les Trois Pecheuses cTddtaples
is also vivid with the character of the scene. One
may mention that a representative selection of the
colour-prints of Mr. Lee Hankey and Mr. Nelson
Dawson is shortly to be ex-
hibited by the Fine Art Society.

Now, the pupils. Here is the
attractive broadly treated land-
scape On the Downs, which we
reproduce in colour, by Mr.

Robert Little, the well-known
water-colour painter, and, as
might be expected from his
quality as a painter, the colour-
scheme, with its boldly con-
trasted blues and greens, in flat
surfaces of tone, and a warm
russet glow, is harmoniously
decorative. Not less, perhaps
even more, tenderly charming
in its green and red tones, with
its sky of pale blue and white
clouds, is The Bridge. Grace
and originality of design com-
bined with happy colour-
harmony characterise the prints
of Mrs. Mabel Lee Hankey, a
pupil of whom her husband may
be justly proud. We give here,
in colours, her Stir la Place,
with its delicate green, blue, and
yellow tones, relieved by the
note of deep brown. The treat-
ment of her figure-subjects,
notably in Hotne and A Portrait,
and The Blue Gown, is always
engagingly unconventional. The
clever design of Miss A. Stern-
dale Bennett’s A Venetian
Canal is effectively printed in an

arrangement of brown, red, blue, and grey. In Mr.
C. I. Hobson’s Concarneau Sardine Boats the black
hulls and brown sails make an impressive pictorial
scheme with the green of the water. But, in this
class of boat, is not the mainmast always the
taller of the two ? Mr. C. F. Ingerson’s November
is frankly decorative in the pattern formed by the
rhythmic sweep of line and curve in the bare tree
and the reeds of the foreground and the great
rolling clouds. The yellow, green, brown, and
blue tints are in a sombre key. Among other
promising pupils whose prints are noteworthy one
may mention Mrs. Edith B. Dawson, Miss A.
Gaskell Pike, and Mr. E. Barnard Lintott.

It is a good thing for their confreres who wish to
seek fresh expression through the medium of colour
engraving, that two interesting artists like Mr
Lee Hankey and Mr. Dawson are making the way