Studio: international art (65.1915)

The Panama-Pacific International Exposition

Mr. Albert Rothenstein; the little etching, Black
Jaguar, by Mr. Orovida; and Mr. Douglas Fox
Pitt’s delightfully simple drawing, in charcoal and
water-colour, of Corfu Harbour. The reproduction
given of this, even though lacking the interest of
the bright and expressive washes of flat colour of
the original, shows well the admirable suggestion of
solidity, of atmosphere and distance, which the
artist succeeds in imparting, despite the decora-
tive and economical methods he employs in
his drawings. Apart from the works just men-
tioned, some of the finest examples to be seen
were the masterly pencil drawings by Mr. Muirhead
Bone, particularly St. George’s, Hanover Square,
Selfridge’s, and the Old Regency, Oxford Circus—
the two last heightened by a wash of colour which,
while certainly adding something to the drawing,
seemed to detract a little from the freshness and
crispness of the pencil line. Two excellent wood-
engravings were those we reproduce, Mr. Sydney
Lee’s Cottage Entrance, and Mr. Noel Rooke’s The
Two Bridges. The latter,
admirable in composition,
has in the original an ad-
ditional charm imparted by
the texture of the wood-
block in the solid parts
under the arches and in
the tree on the right, but
this quality cannot, of
course, survive in a repro-
duction. Other things
which must be mentioned
as adding to the variety and
interest of the exhibition
were Mr. Francis I Odd’s
Parma and Susan Resting,
both, we fancy, in dry-
point; Mr. Bernard Menin-
sky’s Margaret—Chalk
Drawing; and works by
Miss Sylvia Gosse, par-
ticularly a tinted pencil
self-portrait, Through the
Booking-Glass ; Mr.

Francis Sydney Unwin’s
fine sepia drawing, Evening
<on the Arno; several ex-
cellent water-colours by
Mr. A. W. Rich, and
examples of the art
of Mr. Tonks, Mr. D. S.

iviacuoli, and Mr. \\ .

Shackleton. “an octogenarian” by prof. Frederick brown

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The panama-pacific inter-
national EXPOSITION AND
ITS MEANING. BY PROF.
JIRO HARADA.

In wondrous splendour and mystic glory, here
stands the “Jewd City.” Here it poises by the
blue mirror of the Golden Gate as if conscious of
its manifold significance hidden under its domes
and in its towers. Were it not for this deep signifi-
cance, did it not unfold to man the noble sentiment
and spiritual meaning which it contains, the Panama-
Pacific International Exposition, even with the
magnificence of its buildings, courts and sculpture,
would have no right to exist. Nay, it were im-
possible to stand as it does to-day. The outer ap-
pearance should be but a manifestation of the spirit
within.

Often have I stood on the Presidio Hills before
the dawn, from the time when the sky over the
Berkeley Hills began to glow, suggesting, as by