Studio: international art (64.1915)

Studio- Talk

—the other being the veteran Karl Haag, who
died in Germany early in January at the age of 94
having been connected with the society for more
than sixty years.

The Summer exhibition of the Royal Society of
Painters in Water-Colours has proved one of the
best of the society’s exhibitions in the interest of
the work shown. It is Mr. Sargent’s habit to
reserve some of his best work in water-colour for
the society’s summer shows, and his two pieces on
this occasion, Boats on the Lake of Garda and In
Tyrol., are both rare examples of his art. Mr.

Lamorna Birch is responsible for some very notable
landscapes this season, and the flower-painter, Mr.

Francis James, shows no falling off in his delicate
skill. Mr. A. S. Hartrick as usual is individual
and brilliant in his technique. The president, Mr.

Alfred Parsons, R.A., is
best represented by the
tranquil rendering of a
river, The Ouse at Milton
Ernest. Quite one of the
most original and attrac-
tive exhibits is Miss Laura
Knight’s The Magpie. The
red jacket of the central
figure of a child and the
face in shadow of a second
child behind her are
treated with subtlety and
charm. Mr. Robert W.

Allan’s Winter— U.S.A.
solves a very difficult
snow-scene problem with
commendable artistic
assurance. The Echo, by
Mr. Robert Anning Bell,
is an important imagina-
tive design, simple in its
chief motive and made
atmospheric in feeling by
the impressionism of the
painter’s style. Miss A.

M. Swan’s The Quarrv,

Mr. D. Y. Cameron’s
Perthshire Hills, Mr.

Byam Shaw’s When there
was Peace, Mr. Harry
Watson’s Evening Light,

Mr. Charles Sims’s Love
in Anger and The Basket
of Flowers remain in the

memory, but nothing in “ one bonne histoire.” drawing in coloured chalks by r. snow-gibbs

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the exhibition is more happy than Mr. Arthur
Rackham’s Biglmry Bay, South Devon, a pure
water-colour uncompromised by the black ink lines
that the artist sometimes employs in his water-
colours, to their detriment as such.

The 106th exhibition of the Royal Institute of
Painters in Water Colours differs hardly at all from
the general standard the institute has long since set
itself. The President’s (Sir James Linton’s) per-
fections in an old-fashioned convention serve to
raise pictures in the same genre as his own to
something like his own level; while with some few
exceptions “impressionism” falls into unskilful
hands. The exhibition is greatly strengthened by
twenty-four works by Belgian artists contributed
through M. Paul Lambotte. Among pictures in the
English section which deserve particular mention