Studio: international art (57.1913)

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part of them have received their training in its
schools. Mr. N. C. Wyeth’s illustrations of
“ Treasure Island ” were among the most effective
works of this class. Mr. Thornton Oakley’s Jaipur
Market, Hathi, and Water Women, Udaipur, gave
one a good idea of the riot of colour that lends such
a peculiar charm to the street-life of East Indian
towns. Miss Jessie Willcox Smith exhibited a series
of admirable illustrations of Dickens’s works, and
Miss Blanche Greer a number of drawings for
Charlotte Bronte’s “Tales of the Islanders.” Mr.
George Harding’s Off Cape Race and The New-
foutidland Coast were good examples of his art.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott showed some
of her popular pictures of child-life. Taking them
all together they formed a comprehensive display of
the best types of American illustration and showed

PH I L A D EL-
PH I A.—The
competition for
the Beck prize,
awarded to the best work
that has been reproduced
in colour for the purpose
of publication, gave to the
tenth annual exhibition of
the Philadelphia Water-
Color Club, recently held
in the galleries of the
Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts, a character
quite unique and most in-
teresting. The result was
a display of the best work
of many of the leading
illustrators of the United
States, and to the credit
of the Academy it must
be said that the greater

Mr. Baillie has been appointed manager. It is
probable that the pictures he will bring out to
Auckland may be more pictorial and popular in
their appeal than those he has shown here, but no
doubt there will be a generous leaven of that
purely modern art which constituted such a
pleasant feature of the exhibition here.

The Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition of the
New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts was opened
early in October. The general quality of the
work shown was voted somewhat disappointing, but
it is just possible—indeed it would be well were
it so in fact—that the public taste has now been
educated to a higher standard and that local effort
may be found just a trifle unsatisfying. Some
good, strong, sincere work was shown by H. Linley
Richardson, R.B.A., Owen
Merton, R.B.A., Mina
Arndt—the two last being
young New Zealand artists
now studying in Europe
—Mrs. Burge, Mrs. Tripe,
and others, and marked
improvement was evi-
denced in the work of some
of the younger local artists,
plein air studies being now
more numerous than was
wont to be the case.

Charles Wilson.

1 A STREET OF CAFES

(Philadelphia Water- Color Club)

BY H. C. MERRILL

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