Studio: international art (56.1912)

Studio-Talk

repeated in other pictures in which very admirable
expression of the action and gesture of figures was
another leading feature. The not altogether dis-
similar style of Mr. Harold Knight, though worked
out in oil, was applied to well-lit interior scenes and
figure-subjects with the skill that is characteristic of
the painter. Mr. H. Henshall, R.W.S., has also been
exhibiting at this gallery, and Mr. Walter Crane’s
retrospective collection of his beautiful illustrations
must have given a great many people pleasure.

We have no more suggestive artist than Mr. Walter
Sickert, who has been exhibiting at the Carfax
Gallery. He deals very closely with reality, but the
appeal of his art is to the imagination; he relies
upon our imagination taking fire at a hint, he
carries “ selection ” of the' points to which his
touch gives emphasis to the furthest limits. Perhaps
Whistler has been the only other modern artist who
could freight a very few touches with so much
meaning. _

that cannot fail to olfend wherever the spectator
does not catch this mood. Mr. Simpson’s talent
is more friendly to the spectator, and it displays
that cleverness of touch which never fails to fascinate
even the unsympathetic spectator.

Walker’s Galleries contained last month an exhibi-
tion of oils and water-colours by Mr. Norman Garstin.
Many of these deserve a high tribute of praise for
their resourceful treatment of difficult effect. The
Almshouses—Diest, Breton Needlewomen, The House
of St. Joseph, The Beguine’s Garden, among others,
should be especially mentioned.

The exhibition of the New Society of Water-
colour Painters was an improvement upon previous
shows. Its strength rested with Messrs. T. Frederick
Catchpole, Ross Burnett, W. T. M. Hawkesworth,
R. G. Eves, and Gerald Ackerman, though there
were other exhibitors closely seconding them in
achievement.

One of the chief attractions of the present season
is the memorial exhibition at the French
Gallery in Pall Mall of works by the
late Josef Israels. The many admirers
of the great Dutch master in this
country will be grateful to Messrs.

Wallis and Son for this opportunity of
becoming familiar with his pictures at
first hand.

Messrs. Dowdeswell have been exhibiting the

Mr. J. Crawhall’s drawings in water-
colour at the Paterson Gallery were a
prominent feature of the May shows.
The catalogue itself was one to prize
for its careful reproductions. The
artist rivals some of the qualities of the
great Japanese artists in his economy
of means and perception of design in
the characteristic movement of animals
and birds. He uses water-colours in a
very exquisite fashion, with a peculiar
sensitiveness to the beauty of colour in
plumage._

At the Stafford Gallery there has
been the opportunity of making an in-
teresting contrast between the drawings
of M. Pablo Picasso and Mr. Joseph
Simpson, exhibited in the same room.
M. Picasso’s art is essentially of that
kind which is not to be understood
except in a particular mood; it is an art

“ A DISCOVERY ” BY HUGO ELMQVIST

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