Studio: international art (59.1913)

Studio-Talk

STUDIO-TALK.

(From Our Own Correspondents.)

LONDON.—We can remember many more
interesting exhibitions of the New English
Art Club than the present one, which is
marred by the monotony with which a
newly introduced group of exhibitors, influenced by
Post-Impressionism, play upon the same themes
and reduce those themes always to the same kind
of patterns. For the work of paramount interest in
the present exhibition we must go back to the
names with which all the recent successes of the
New English Art Club have rested. We must go
to the distinguished portrait, Airs. Hammersley, by
Mr. Wilson Steer, the painting Alyrtle, by Mr.
Ambrose McEvoy, and to Mr. Orpen’s portrait of
himself, painted in his own style and in the manner
in w'hich he is unrivalled. Mr. Steer has also a land-
scape, The Inner Harbour, which, with Prof. C. T-
Holmes’s Dufton Pike from Backstone Edge and
Windrush near Burford
and Mr. Mark Fisher’s In
the Month of May and
Apple Blossom, ranks
among the most interesting
landscapes. The works we
are reproducing also assist
in giving character to the
exhibition, as do Miss
Alice Fanner’s Ramsgate—

Inner Harbour, Mr. Walter
Bayes’ Illustration, Mr.

Charles M. Gere’s Juniper
Hill, Miss Ethel Walker’s
design for tapestry, Spring,

Mr. Spencer F. Gore’s The
Back Gardens, Mr. Ed-
ward Butlar’s Spring in a
Suburb, Mrs. Evelyn
Cheston’s In Somerset,

Miss Margaret Gere’s The
Ten Virgins, Mr. Elliot
Seabrooke’s Blake Rigs,
and Miss Ursula Tyrwhitt’s
Le Cap, works, all of them,
of individuality and some
distinction. In the collec-
tion of drawings and water-
colours notable features are
Mr. M. Hogarth’s Santa
Maria dei Miracoli, Mr.

H. Rushbury’s Breaking
up the old G. P. O., Mr. “coster-girl and child”

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Hanslip Fletcher’s Strand looking East (one of the
most interesting etchings this artist has yet pro-
duced), Miss Sylvia Gosse’s A Private Rehearsal,
Mr. Wilson Steer’s Valley of the Severn and Scetie
in a Park, Mr. A. W. Rich’s Chathatn, and Mr.
C. S. Cheston’s A flooded Holding.

The exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait
Painters recently held at the Grafton Galleries
represented the members well, but the work of the
best members suffered from juxtaposition with
inferior works. Taken by the best work in it, however,
the exhibition was a very strong one. Prof. Sauter’s
Mrs. Hermann Hirsch, Mr. John S. Sargent’s
Sir Hugh Lane, Sir Hubert von Herkomer’s Thomas
H. Maw son, Esq., Mr. John da Costa’s Airs.
Marshall Roberts, and Miss Flora Lion’s Nancy,
daughter of J. MacGillicuddy, Esq., were among
the eminent features. Mr. William Orpen’s
portrait of Sir John Anderson was, however, the
most impressive work. This portrait, we under-

(New English Art Club)

BY T. C. DUGDALE