Studio: international art (58.1913)

Studio- Talk

Emile Verpilleux and Mr. A. W. Seaby. There is,
too, a fair amount of interesting sculpture by M.
Rodin, Sir C. Holroyd, Mr. W. Reid Dick, Mr.
Glyn Philpot, Mr. John Tweed, Mr. F. Derwent
"Wood and other artists.

The summer exhibition of the Royal Society of
Painters in Water-Colours is now in progress. This
cannot be said to be one of the most successful of
the society's exhibitions. It owes its interest
almost entirely to a few rare pieces of work by
acknowledged masters, such as Mr. John S.
Sargent's Fountain, a water-colour which must
be rated with his best achievements, Mr. Charles
Sims's Bleaching, and Mr. D. Y. Cameron's
Mountain Tops, Arra?i, three remarkable works
of art to be put forward in one exhibition—
and they are not the only works shown by their
exhibitors. The search for that evidence of re-
juvenation which a season or two ago seemed
apparent in the Old Water-Colour Society, meets
with scant reward on this occasion. The presence of
work by Mr. Clausen, Mr. Hughes-Stanton and Mr.
Francis James, always counts for a great deal, but

Mr. H. S. Hopwood is not represented, nor Mrs.
Laura Knight, and we miss one of those finely
imaginative decorations in which the distinguished
talent of Mr. R. Anning Bell generally expresses
itself. Sir Harry Johnston, an honorary member,
helps the exhibition immensely this year with
his Crested Ibis and Toco Toucans: in these we
have the learning of a great naturalist and traveller!
but what is more to the purpose in the circum-
stances, they are pictures which lack nothing in
regard to style and fine achievements of colour-
Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton's Evening—Road to the
Sea is very representative and Mr. Alfred Parsons's
The Sentinels—Bredon is by far the best piece of
work sent in by the older school of water-colourists.
Other pictures of interest are Mr. A. S. Hartrick's
Salmon Pool, Rothiemay; The Ferry Boat, by
Comm. Walter Crane ; The Farm Fond, by Mr.
S. J. Lamorna Birch; Rowallan Castle, by Mr.
James Paterson ; Miss A. M. Swan's Anemones ;
Rosehearty, by Mr. R. W. Allan ; Mr. Walter West's
Springtime in Italy; A Spring Study, by Mr.
Herbert Alexander, and The Heron, by Mr. Edwin
Alexander. _

Even more than the Old Water-
Colour Society, the Royal Society of
British Artists rely upon one or two
members for the attractiveness of their
exhibition. In their large gallery The
Souvenir of the Goya Ball by Mr.
Joseph Simpson, and Early Morning
by the President, Sir Alfred East,
are works which if taken away would
put out the light of the whole room, so
vital are they in contrast with their
surroundings. Mr. Fred Leist's Blue
and Silver, Mr. Stephen Reid's An
Edition de Luxe, Mr. F. F. Foottet's
Fonte Vecchio, Florence, and Mr.
Elphinstone's The Round Fond, excel-
lent as they are, together with one or
two other works, are not sufficient to
provide Mr. Simpson's and the Presi-
dent's pictures with the support from
their surroundings they deserve in this
the best room of the society's show.
In other rooms Mr. R. G. Eve's por-
trait sketch of The Rt. Hon. Sir H.
Cozens-Hardy, Mr. Louis Richter's The
Younger Miss Blossom, Mr. Carruthers
Gould's Beside the Stream, Mr. J. W.
Schofield's Silver and Blue, Mr. John
portrait of a lady (Se'p.jjj) by i.AUfiENCK koe Muirhead's 'Twixt the Gloaming and

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