Studio: international art (55.1912)

Studio-Talk

“THE WATER TOWER, DORDRECHT”

(Royal Society oj British Artists)

ticularly successful exhibitors. Prints which are
easily recalled for their fine qualities are Mrs.
Austen Brown’s Low Tide, Mr. Sydney Lee’s
Group of Buildings at Rochester, and Mr. Nelson
Dawson’s Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, A Brigan-
tine towing into Scarborough Harbottr, and The
Harbour Boomsivay, Scarborough.

BY L. BURLEIGH BRUHL

Mr. Charles M. Gere and Miss Margaret Gere
exhibited at the Carfax Gallery in April
some very successful tempera painting,
together with oils and water-colours. It
would be truer to speak of the melody
rather than the harmony of their simple
and attractive colour—both painters work-
ing in the same vein. Miss Gere’s panels,
Pharaoh's Dream and The Sisters,
are especially to be remembered, and,
besides the works reproduced in our last
number, An Orchard in March, A Cots-
wold Hill-side, The Lombard Plain, and
other pastoral pieces represented attrac-
tive phases of Mr. C. M. Gere’s talent.

Sir William B. Rich-
mond’s exhibition of paint-
ings of Italy, Greece, and
Egypt at the Fine Art
Society’s galleries last
month contained many ex-
quisitely executed canvases.
Grey Weather, Delos;-
Lower Church, Assisi;
Lion Rock, Nauplia; Near Volterra; The Hill'
of Ares from Acropolis, Athens, are especially
to be remembered with The Castle, Assisi, in,
which the wide space of sky is so Whistlerian,
in manipulation. Two street scenes in Cairo-

were curiously interesting in colour, and pic-

tures of the Carrara Mountains after storm
were especially beautiful in the effect of mountain-
tops and heavy clouds.

Mr. Gordon Home, whose drawing, The
Greek Theatre, Arles, we reproduce oppo-
site, displays eminent talent in dealing
with architecture. As a spontaneous
impression in chalk touched with the
pen this drawing is singularly effective.

exhibition or portraits at
the Knoedler Gallery in
April. Especially success-
ful portraits were Betty,
Daughter of Harold Ark-
wright, Esq. ; The Children
oj Patrick f. Ford, Esq. -
and Kathleen; but the
entire exhibition witnessed
effectively to the artist’s
unusual gifts in the art of'
portraiture.

Mr. Harrington Mann held an portrait on vellum by miss Margaret gere:

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