Studio: international art (57.1913)

Art School Notes

part of block printing, and, on the other hand, the
expression of the same thoughts and fancies in
water-colour. H. V. H.

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

LONDON.—At the Royal Academy on De-
cember 2, in his first lecture on chemistry,
Prof. Laurie intends to make a new de-
parture that should be of considerable
value in connection with the modern revival of a
beautiful and ancient art. The lecture will be
devoted to a consideration of the palette of the
illuminators who practised from the seventh to the
end of the fifteenth century and will be illustrated
with lantern slides of illuminated manuscripts in
their natural colours. In his remaining addresses
Prof. Laurie will deal with the proper selection
and use of modem pigments; the various methods
of wall-painting; media, varnishes, and tempera
painting; the theory of colour in its application to
painting ; and the chemistry of building materials.
In view of the possibility that the professorships
of painting, sculpture, and architecture may be more
or less in commission this winter, several members
of the Academy have undertaken to give single
addresses in January and February on subjects
connected with these three branches of the arts.

The autumn exhibition at the Birkbeck School
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of Art contained some
promising work in painting,
modelling, and design. An
admirable design for a
garden fountain in cast
lead was shown by Arthur
E. Harvey; and Arthur
M. Boss, the winner in
recent years of many prizes
for drawing and painting,
contributed a clever sketch
in oil of a girl dancing.
Good drawings from the
nude by Branford Clarke
were accompanied by some
curious designs that
showed the influence of
Blake; and figure studies
of interest came from
William Howitt. Com-
mendable work was also
shown by Viola D.
Dunkley, Gladys Hardy-
Syms, Grace M. Hudson,
and Alfred M. Shiner among others. W. T. W.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES.

Mary the Mother of Jesus. An Essay by Alice
Meynell. With 20 plates in colour after water-
colour drawings by R. Anning Bell. (London :
P. Lee Warner for the Medici Society.) 16s. net.
—It is part of Mrs. Meynell’s gift in the preparation
of this book to select her illustrator with so much
success as the results show in this case. One can
imagine collectors many years hence searching
for this edition for the sake of the frontispiece, a
singularly fine piece of colour-reproduction. Mary
in the House of Elizabeth is also a plate of great
beauty, adapting the sharp colour-contrast of
old missals to present-day conditions without any
affected imitation of methods which were not in-
fluenced as present methods must be by having to
recognise the printing-press. The present-day pro-
cesses, and the method they admit of, enable the
artist to attain, as in the picture Mary with the
Lady Saint Anne, atmospheric wealth of effect;
and Mr. Anning Bell does this without losing the
precious qualities of finish which book-embellish-
ment demands. In this last respect he achieves a
success which few attain to.

An Artist in Egypt. By Walter Tyndale,
R.I. (London : Hodder and Stoughton.) 20s.
net.—Of the numerous books on Egypt which have