Studio: international art (67.1916)

Studio-Talk

gallery, the works of their own members being
confined to the smaller rooms. In this Italian
collection, comprising more than two hundred
prints contributed by some seventy artists, etching
is the medium most in evidence. In many of the
prints the influence of Mr. Brangwyn is discernible,
while in a few one can see that the late Sir Alfred
East’s work has its admirers in Italy. On the
whole the etchings leave the impression that the
medium is one which has not yet become fully
acclimatised there—that to many, if not indeed
most, of the artists who practise it, it is a foreign
language which they have learnt to speak gram-
matically but not idiomatically. It is otherwise
however with the wood engravings, which, if fewer
in number, are undoubtedly the clou of this show.
We noted especially (among other examples worth
naming did space permit) some fine prints by
Adolfo de Karolis, Ettore di Giorgio, and G.
Barbieri. We hope in a later number to repro-
duce some of the work of these artists. In the
galleries containing the exhibits of members of the
R.B. A. there is little if anything that can be singled
out as above the usual average either of the Society
itself or of particular members. Work of an
interesting character is contributed by Mr. Little-
johns and Mr. Leonard Richmond, whose pastel
paintings we referred to and illustrated in a recent

issue, and also by Mr. Davis Richter, Mr. T. L.
Shoosmith, Mr. A. Carruthers Gould, and Mr.
Alfred Hartley among others, and there are some
pictures by Mr. Percy Lancaster which show that
in him the Society has a recruit of much promise.

EWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.—The
Director of the Municipal Art Gallery
and Museum recently brought together
a remarkably interesting and valuable
collection of pictures, prints, etc., illustrative of
Old Newcastle and neighbourhood, and the display
furnished an admirable example of war economy
in connection with the administration of museums,
for the whole of the exhibits, numbering nearly
a thousand, were secured on loan from the public
institutions and private collectors in the immediate
locality at a trifling cost. Newcastle and district
have played no inconsiderable part in the history
of our country, and this important collection pre-
sented a valuable survey from the Roman period
to the present time.

An important section of the exhibition comprised
paintings in oil and water-colours by J. Hoppner,
Thomas Girtin, T. M. Richardson, J. W. Car-
michael, H. P. Parker, John Dobson, and many
other artists of repute, recording many valuable