Studio: international art (67.1916)

Studio-Talk

Amongst the younger members of the Society,
Miss Norah Neilson Gray holds a distinctive niche.
Naive, imaginative, and decorative, these are the
three qualities that make her work acceptable. In
The Wood of Owls there is a fine fancy, a bewitch-
ing delicacy that could surely only come from the
hand and by the touch of sensitive woman. A
small work by Mr. Charles Napier, one of the
younger men, claimed special attention. His
Farm at Dolphinton expressed the spirit of
country life, conveyed the open-air feeling, with a
fidelity and reticence that often come only with
long and ripe experience. Then there were some
Scottish landscapes, poetically expressed, by Mr.
A. K. Brown, a master of the art; Highland
transcriptions by Mr. Tom Hunt, faithfully
recorded by an artist intimately familiar with
every feature of his subject; sea, and river, and
Continental pieces by Mr. R. IV. Allan, thoughtfully
and masterfully rendered
by this painter of wide
experience and rare ability ;
contemplative themes by
Mr. Ewan Geddes, sensi-
tively expressed; decorative
renderings by Mr. Charles
Mackie and Mr. Charles
Oppenheimer respectively;
architectural studies by
Mr. J. Hamilton Mackenzie
and Mr. A. B. M'Kechnie ;
and marine interpretations
by Mr. Patrick Downie.

Mr. R. M. G. Coventry, in which the geniality
characteristic of the gifted artist is revealed-

Glasgow School of Art is a centre of many
activities, and its able Director is restless in the
cause and service of Art. Mr. F. H. Newbery
has long held that the art teacher is at a disadvan-
tage by lack of University recognition, and he has
laboured unceasingly to bring about affiliation
between the School and the University; but alas !
the outlook of University Professors in regard to
Art is restricted, and so the scheme has not
materialised. The founding of the Artist
Teachers’ Exhibition Society, while in no sense
antagonistic to the University scheme, provides
immediate stimulus and encouragement to the art
teacher, and establishes a medium for making his
work known. The constitution of the society is
wide enough to admit to membership executive

Amongst the portrait and
figure-studies those by Mr.
Henry W. Kerr, Mr. P. A.
Hay, Mr. James Riddel,
and Mr. John P. Downie
claimed attention; and
there were some effective
flower-pieces by Miss
Katherine Cameron, Miss
Constance Walton, Miss
Agnes M. Raeburn, and
Miss Annie I). Muir. The
exhibition also gave oppor-
tunity for a further study
of the genius of two lately
deceased members in a
fine architectural interior
by Mr. James G. Laing,
and one of those ani-
mated market-places by
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“ ELIZABETH ”

(Artist Teachers' Exhibition, Glasgow)

BY ANDREW LAW