Studio: international art (62.1914)

Studio-Talk

devoted to painting is given up to foreign invited round each picture materially reduces the holding
work, some of which raises the question of whether capacity of the exhibition.

the purpose aimed at is served by the examples -

that have been furnished. Such work to be a The Scottish work is on the whole increasingly
value to the local painter and interesting to the satisfactory. Among the younger artists the quality
public requires to have a representative capacity, of style is more evident. Colour is richer and
and this has not always been followed. Certainly more forceful, drawing and design take a better
one would not willingly miss Brangwyn's Wine, place, and there is very little work of which it can
Roganeau's La Toilette, Philip Connard's Helen be said that it evidences only a superficial pretti-
and Jane, Besnard's church interior, Perlmutter's ness. Sir James Guthrie's technique has undergone
Two Ages, Oberteuffer's Notre Dame, Fernand considerable modification within the last year or
Khnopff's L'Encens, Verhaeren's Tapis Rouge, two, and his large portrait of the Lady Hermione
Modeste Huy's Mar:hi a Oudenarde, or Mancini's Stuart standing at the foot of a staircase in a
Waiting, but there are other canvases that are not baronial mansion is one of the finest creations of
worth the wall space they occupy, especially when modern times in its revelation of the simplicity and
it is borne in mind that the practice of keeping a beauty of girlhood amid aristocratic surroundings,
low sky line and providing a " breathing " space Mr. E. A. Walton's portraits of John Kirkhope and

Prof. Geikie, inspired by a
similar motive—relation of
the man to his activities—
are both good, and con-
siderable interest attaches
to his The Mother with its
accentuation of light and
colour. Among the other
portraits are interesting
work by Mr. Henry Kerr
and Mr. Robert Gibb, and
Mr. Robert Hope shows
continued progress in three
portraits of women. Mr.
Fiddes Watt has a portrait
of the nonagenarian Earl
of Haddington, and Mr.
Lavery portraits of the
King and Queen, studies
probably for his large pic-
ture at Burlington House
last year. Mr. Henry
Lintott, now one of the
masters at the Art College,
has a small portrait study
of the head of a woman
which has been acquired
by the Scottish Modern
Arts Association, and
among the younger
workers showing excep-
tional promise in the
painting of the figure are
Mr. David Alison, Mr.
Cowan Dobson, Mr.
Martine Ronaldson, Mr.
"the mother " (Royal Scottish Academy) by e. a. walton, r.s.a. O. Hutchison, Mr. J.

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