Studio: international art (56.1912)

Venice International Exhibition

was devoted in The Studio
some eight years ago, was
a great artist, absolutely in
advance of his time (he
died at Milan in 1878) ; but
here I have needed all my
space for the moderns, and
I can only repeat my first
words in saying that the
work of the present Italian
artists, as shown here,
deserves the warmest ap-
preciation by their contem-
poraries.

Selwyn Brinton.

“portrait of a little girl”

“ individual show ” of that refined sculptor, Pietro
Canonica, which gives its character to this side of the
Venice exhibition. Fine as
are his portraits (Duchesse
Elena cC Aosta, Contessina
Lutzow, and the child in
La Pieta), it is a marble
Torso by him which I par-
ticularly admired, and
which in its modelling is
marvellously delicate.

In this notice I have
purposely omitted one room
of extreme interest—that
of the retrospective art of
Tranquillo Cremona,
which is one of the most
interesting features of the
present exhibition. Cre-
mona, to whom an article

The complete set of
Mr. Joseph Pennell’s litho-
graphs shown in the Sene-
felder Club’s collection at
the International Exhibi-
tion, Venice, has been
bought by the Baroness
Angela Reinelt and pre-
sented to the Venice
Gallery of Modern Art.
The United States Govern-
ment has purchased for the
National Collection at
Washington, D.C., the en-
tire collection of Mr. Pen-
nell’s lithographs of the
by arturo noci Panama Canal, twenty-six
in number. These litho-
graphs have just been made by Mr. Pennell, who only
recently went to the Canal Zone for the purpose.

GROUND PLAN OF “ TWO_GABLES

R. F. JOHNSTON, ARCHITECT

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