Studio: international art (56.1912)

Studio-Talk

“ le moulin de nazareth” (International Society) from the oil painting by Alfred withers

contribution of two drawings to this summer exhibi-
tion, so that nothing is lacking to give distinction to
the show. Mr. Anning Bell with his larger religious
theme, and the rich colour of his The Eager Girls,
is represented by work at his best level. But for
the too similar character of Mr. F. Cayley Robinson’s
composition to previous pictures by him, his Jeu cPen-
fants, for its poetry of form and colour, would be a
rare addition to the gallery. Mr. Lamorna Birch, one
of the society’s new recruits, is among the strongest
of the exhibitors; Mr. Charles Sims in CupitLs Bow
and Love Locked Out is as brilliant and swift in execu-
tion as ever; Mr. Alfred Parsons is in an exception-
ally good vein in his precise, but not unatmospheric,
treatment of green countryside ; and Mr. J. W. North
in his one exhibit expresses his very individual and
poetic vision of nature with unusual success. The
president, Sir Ernest Waterlow, Mr. R. W. Allan,
Mr. E. J. Sullivan, Mr. C. Napier Hemy, Mr.
D. Y. Cameron, Mr. Herbert Alexander, and Miss
A. M. Swan send notable contributions; and the
success of the exhibition owes much to Mr. Edwin
Alexander’s Black Cock, and the landscape Les
Beaux—Provence, by Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton.

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The Society of Graver-Printers in Colour held
their third exhibition at Messrs. Manzi, Joyant and
Co.’s gallery in May. Mr. Nelson Dawson in his
Scarborough from the Sea and Mr. Alfred Hartley in
The Flagstaff most clearly grasped the nature of the
resources of the medium of colour-printing from
metal plates. 1 he former in his Scarborough in
Twilight and Mr. Frederick Marriott in his Bruges
by Night (a coloured mezzotint) were both betrayed
by unsympathetic yellow. The latter artist’s coloured
etching Bruges—La Porte, however, redeemed his
mistake. Miss Robertine’s Pansies and The Blue
Curtain should be praised, also Mr. Lee Hankey’s
Virgin and Child. Mr. W. Giles’s Our Lady Birds
and Mr. E. L. Lawrenson’s The Lncommg Tide
should be mentioned as two only out of many prints
which raised the exhibition to a remarkably high
standard.

At the Leicester Gallery Mr. Harold Knight
and Mrs. Knight have been holding an exhibi-
tion of cabinet pictures. In such a water-colour
as Untrodden Sand Mrs. Knight’s ability to suggest
the burning sun is very remarkable; it is a success