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Studio-talk
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Studio-Talk
black, A Portrait of a Lady in Early Victoriati
Dress, and another, in grey and sanguine, entitled
An Episode, were among the noteworthy examples
of this increasingly popular art.
he regarded as a period of apprenticeship, and it
must be deeply regretted that he should have fallen,
in some sense a victim of the war, at the very
threshold of a future that would have brought forth
great achievement.
In the inner room at the Leicester Galleries
were some of the beautiful water-colour drawings
executed by Mr. Edmund Dulac as illustrations for
various story-books, drawings in which his ex-
quisite technique, his refined colour and draughts-
manship enable him to borrow inspiration from the
old Persian and Indian illuminations and to adapt
them to his subject. Of his various caricatures,
whose very finish and perfection of technique seem
to rob them a little of their “ snap,” we preferred
Our Musical Hope, in which Mr. Dulac has hit off
to the life a very characteristic attitude of Mr.
Beecham conducting.
the Red Cross in Ken-
sington, art is deprived of a
young and earnest student,
whose sincerity and high
ideals shadowed forth
already the promise of fine
work. The artist was bom
at Lee, Kent, in 1885,
and derived practically all
his art training from
Heatherley’s, to which
school he was deeply
attached. He was always
working, always drawing,
always studying with inde-
fatigable energy, and had
already shown himself to
be an able painter as well
as an admirable and
exceedingly sympathetic
draughtsman. He exhi-
bited on two occasions at
the Baillie Gallery, and his
works have appeared in
the International, the Royal
Academy and elsewhere.
While holding aloof from
all the extravagances of
the day, he was entirely in-
dividual and modern in his
outlook, and was ever
striving with rare modesty
to arrive1 at the root of the
matter. The time till he
attained the age of thirty
282
Our colour supplement, The Greek Theatre,
Syracuse, Sicily, is a reproduction from a water-
colour by an artist who is a frequent exhibitor at
the Royal Academy and at the Royal Institute of
Painters in Water Colours. Mr. Mavrogordato is
also a member of the London Sketch Club. The
atmospheric effect suggested so dexterously in this
simply handled drawing gives it an interest
additional to that of its subject.
By the sudden death of J. Brake Baldwin, which
occurred at the end of July last, after a few
days’ illness brought on by hard work and exposure
as a member of a Voluntary Aid Detachment of
FROM A DRAWING BY THE LATE J. BRAKE BALDWIN
black, A Portrait of a Lady in Early Victoriati
Dress, and another, in grey and sanguine, entitled
An Episode, were among the noteworthy examples
of this increasingly popular art.
he regarded as a period of apprenticeship, and it
must be deeply regretted that he should have fallen,
in some sense a victim of the war, at the very
threshold of a future that would have brought forth
great achievement.
In the inner room at the Leicester Galleries
were some of the beautiful water-colour drawings
executed by Mr. Edmund Dulac as illustrations for
various story-books, drawings in which his ex-
quisite technique, his refined colour and draughts-
manship enable him to borrow inspiration from the
old Persian and Indian illuminations and to adapt
them to his subject. Of his various caricatures,
whose very finish and perfection of technique seem
to rob them a little of their “ snap,” we preferred
Our Musical Hope, in which Mr. Dulac has hit off
to the life a very characteristic attitude of Mr.
Beecham conducting.
the Red Cross in Ken-
sington, art is deprived of a
young and earnest student,
whose sincerity and high
ideals shadowed forth
already the promise of fine
work. The artist was bom
at Lee, Kent, in 1885,
and derived practically all
his art training from
Heatherley’s, to which
school he was deeply
attached. He was always
working, always drawing,
always studying with inde-
fatigable energy, and had
already shown himself to
be an able painter as well
as an admirable and
exceedingly sympathetic
draughtsman. He exhi-
bited on two occasions at
the Baillie Gallery, and his
works have appeared in
the International, the Royal
Academy and elsewhere.
While holding aloof from
all the extravagances of
the day, he was entirely in-
dividual and modern in his
outlook, and was ever
striving with rare modesty
to arrive1 at the root of the
matter. The time till he
attained the age of thirty
282
Our colour supplement, The Greek Theatre,
Syracuse, Sicily, is a reproduction from a water-
colour by an artist who is a frequent exhibitor at
the Royal Academy and at the Royal Institute of
Painters in Water Colours. Mr. Mavrogordato is
also a member of the London Sketch Club. The
atmospheric effect suggested so dexterously in this
simply handled drawing gives it an interest
additional to that of its subject.
By the sudden death of J. Brake Baldwin, which
occurred at the end of July last, after a few
days’ illness brought on by hard work and exposure
as a member of a Voluntary Aid Detachment of
FROM A DRAWING BY THE LATE J. BRAKE BALDWIN