Studio: international art (58.1913)

Studio-Talk

colour. Many of the foreign exhibitors, brilliant
though much of their work was, showed a tendency
to force the inherent qualities of water-colour, aiding
themselves towards daring effects by copious use of
body-colour, or the insertion of pastel and crayon,
and generally working upon a scale too large to
be fair to the true properties of the medium they
employ. __

We should have to use the word "dashing" to
describe the style of Mr. A. J. Munnings, R.I.
in the hunting and country scenes he has been
exhibiting at the Leicester Gallery. This artist's
technical accomplishment must excite admiration
in every one ; whether however, with such an easy
style he does not take some of the difficult
impressionist effects which he seeks to achieve
at too great a pace, thereby losing just that
intimacy which so subtle a style might easily
bring within its range, is a question. It is un-
doubtedly one of the secrets of Mr. Sargent's great
career, for instance, that he has been able to hold
a similar exuberance of technical pleasure always

well in hand. It was shrewd of the proprietors of
the Gallery to oppose to this artist's fluency the
academic correctness of Mr. Herbert Draper.
Such an art as Mr. Draper's is very highly to be
valued to-day; it practises a tradition which reaches
back unbroken to the great Italian masters, and we
are sure that it would not be for the benefit of art
if it entirely disappeared.

One of the vacancies in the ranks of the Asso-
ciates of the Royal Academy was filled up at the
end of February by the election of Mr. Edwin
Landseer Lutyens, architect.

Both the "Old" and the "New" Water-Colour
Societies have recently lost members whose con-
nection with them has lasted three decades or
longer. Mr. Herbert Menzies Marshall, R.W.S.,
who died in London March 2, was born at Leeds
in 1841 ; after leaving Cambridge he entered the
Royal Academy Schools, where he won the
Travelling Studentship for architecture in 1868.
He was elected an Associate of the " Old " Water-

" HEADLBY DOWNS " (AQUATINT)

(Messrs. Colnaghi and Obach)

BY WILLIAM P. ROBINS, A, R ,E.