Studio: international art (65.1915)

Studio-Talk

“dreams” (miniature)

( See p. 276 )

BY BESS NORRISS TAIT

Phumanite une parcelle incomparable de son
patrimonie artistique.” A series of well over a
hundred excellent photographs of all parts and
details of this superb Cathedral forms a record of
inestimable value now that the shells of the destroyer
have wrought such fearful damage to the roofs,
towers, windows and sculptures.

While the war has hit artists very hard they have
yet done much by their gifts and by offering their
proceeds of exhibitions to support various charitable
causes. So it would be only fair and right that
the Artists War Relief Exhibition, held recently
under the auspices of the Royal Institute of British
Architects and the Imperial Arts League at the
Maddox Street Galleries, should receive the warm
support of the public, as we trust it may have done.
Here was an opportunity of acquiring at modest
prices examples of the work of many able artists ;
and the variety of exhibits afforded something to
please all tastes in pictures. Space does not permit
of a mention in detail of more than a very few of
the exhibits, but among other items of interest
were a number of pictures by Mr. A. K. Brown ; a
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clever little sketch in oils of Ruins at Delphi,
Greece, by Mr. H. Hughes-Stanton ; large oil
paintings by Mr. David Murray, Mr. A. Carruthers
Gould, Mr. Edward King ; Fountains Hall, froi7i
the Gardens, by Mr. Lavery; a fine pastel Allegory,
by Mr. Solomon J. Solomon; an attractive sea-
scape with figures of a girl and little boy, by Mr.
Lionel F. Smythe; Mr. T. C. Gotch’s Ice Maiden,
pale green against the deep blue of the ice;
excellent water-colours by Mr. Clausen and Mr.
Dacres Adams ; some good lithographs by Anthony
R. Barker; two fine sketches by Alfred Water-
house, R.A., particularly one of Rome dated 1873 ;
skilfully impressionistic etchings with a sense of
movement and life by Mr. W. Walcot, reconstruc-
tions of scenes in the days of ancient Rome ;
several good pen-drawings by Sir Chas. Nicholson,
Bart., notably Aerschot', and a variety of sketches,
drawings, &c., by such well-known artists and
architects as Mr. Guy Dawber, Mr. Arnold Mit-
chell, Sir Ernest George, Mr. E. A. Rickards, Mr.
Edgar Wood, Mr. Hanslip Fletcher, Mr. Frank L.
Emanuel, Mr. Harry Winslow, Mr. Talbot Hughes,
Mr. Douglas Wells, Mr. J. Joass, and others.