Studio: international art (55.1912)

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was especially successful in dealing with the more
dramatic aspects of nature and in realising the
poetry of rugged, mountainous scenery.

Mr. J. J. Shannon, R.A., president of the Royal
Society of Portrait Painters, has accepted the
position of chairman of the Fine Art Committee
of the Anglo-Latin exhibition at Shepherd’s Bush.
The Fine Art Palace at the White City is on this
occasion being divided into four sections, compris-
ing representative collections of works by the
schools of France, Spain, Italy, and Great Britain,
many of them never before publicly exhibited.

The Spring exhibition of the Royal Society of
British Artists would be memorable if only for
Mr. Joseph Simpson’s fascinating picture After the
Ball, one of his most brilliant achievements. Sir
Alfred East’s Lever Park, Bolton, Mr. Foottet’s
Romance, Mr. Hely
Smith’s Wild Nature, Mr.

Lenfestey’s A Passing
Shower, Mr. W. Graham
Robertson’s Rain in the
Valley, Mr. A. Carruthers
Gould’s A Somerset Land-
scape, Mr. T. F. M.

Sheard’s An Oben Door,

Mr. D. Murray Smith’s
Hush! I see Vastness!

Mr. Burleigh Bruhl’s The
Water Tower, Dordrecht,
and Miss Dorothea
Sharpe’s The Wind on the
Hill, were pictures which
gave distinction to the
exhibition this year. Mr.

P. Laszlo was represented
by two characteristic por-
traits. In the water-colour
rooms, which were par-
ticularly interesting on
this occasion, Miss A.

Underwood’s miniatures
were a feature, and, in
addition to the president’s
fine Greenwich Obser-
vatory, the drawings of
Messrs. Grenville Eves,

Giffard Lenfestey, J. W.

Schofield, W. T. M.

Hawsworth, D. Murray
Smith, and C. Geoffrey
Holme gave distinctive-
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ness to this side of the society’s output for the
year. Some work in aquatint, dry-point, and
mezzotint by Mr. Percival Gaskell and etchings
by Miss Helen Wilson are entitled to high praise.

At the Old Dudley Art Society’s spring exhibition
at the Alpine Club, Chalets, St. Moritz, by Mrs.
James Jardine; Carnations, by Mrs. Barnard;
The Open Road, by Mr. R. S. D. Alexander;
Windsor Castle, by Mr. N. B. Severn; On Katwijk
Beach, by Mr. L. Burleigh Bruhl; A Yorkshire
Haven, by Mr. E. Horwitz; and some red chalk
drawings of dogs by Miss E. Kate Westrup were
the most interesting contributions.

Of rising painters in whose art the genius of a
new generation is already apparent there is none
whose talent is more welcome than Mr. Elliott
Seabrooke’s. For some while a shuffling “intel-

“ THE WIND ON THE HILL” BY DOROTHEA SHARPE

(Royal Society of British Artists)