Studio: international art (64.1915)

Studio- Talk

oxidising agent produced by the light on moisture
in the presence of oxygen. This suspicion was
confirmed by the new tests to which he subjected
some thirty pigments, corresponding practically to
those tested by prolonged exposure to light on the
previous occasion. In the new tests an electrically
generated current of ozonised air was employed, first
with and then without moisture, and on the whole
the results harmonised with those reached before.

Sir William Abney mentioned that after retiring
from the Civil Service some eleven years ago he
himself took to painting in water-colours as an occu-
pation, and he gave a list of the colours which now
make up his box, selected on account of their per-
manent qualities. He has three reds—vermilion,
light red and rose madder ; the yellow group consists
of aureolin, yellow ochre, raw sienna, cadmium
yellow, madder yellow and
lemon yellow; the greens of
emerald, viridian, Hooker’s
(a new mixture), and sunny
green; the blues, cobalt,

French, Antwerp blue and
Cyanin blue, and violet
cobalt; the browns, an imi-
tation vandyke brown and
brown madder, Turner’s
brown, and burnt sienna;
and finally a neutral tint of
special formula, and ivory
black.

Sand Bay, full of light and sparkling colour, the
famous Goatherd landscape by Corot, a couple of
works by Manet, Philip Connard’s The Dessert,
Brangwyn’s Fete Day, Sir James Guthrie’s portrait
of Major Hotchkiss, D. Y. Cameron’s dramatic
rendering of Inverlochy Castle, an exquisite sunset
by J. Lawton Wingate, two characteristic works by
William Nicholson, and a couple of admirable
interiors by the Danish painter, Hammershoi,
whose work has not hitherto been seen in Scottish
Exhibitions.

All the members of the society exhibited except
Mr. Harrington Mann. Mr. James Paterson’s
principal pictures were a portrait of his daughter
and a view of St. George’s Church, Edinburgh, both
of which have been seen before but have undergone
some helpful revision. Mr. Lavery sent a portrait of a

Edinburgh.—

The annual exhi-
b i t ion of the
Society of Eight,
opened in the end of
November, consisted for
the greater part of loan
work, and not to be out-
done by other societies
this group of artists de-
cided to devote a portion
of the proceeds to the
Belgian Relief Fund. The
invited work included two
portraits by Raeburn,
Whistler’s Little Lillie in
Our Alley, William Mc-
Taggart’s Kilkerran Bay
representing his middle
period, and his White
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“portrait of a lady

(Society of Eight, Edinburgh )

BY F. C. B. CADELI.