Studio: international art (68.1916)

Studio- Talk

"snow" (design for woodcut) by j. cramtton walker

(Black and White Artists' Society, Dublin)

DUBLIN. — The annual
exhibition of the Royal
Hibernian Academy"
was of average excel-
lence, so far as the work of the
Irish painters and sculptors repre-
sented is concerned, though one
missed the work of Mr. William
Orpen, whose resignation of mem-
bership is a serious loss to the
institution. The works by outside
contributors, on the other hand,
were less interesting than usual, and
one is tempted to speculate as to the
motives which influenced the selec-
tion committee with regard to some
of the inclusions. Dull subject
pictures and still duller landscapes
by painters of mid-Victorian tenden-
cies are of no value in the only
important Dublin exhibition at
which the Irish student is afforded
an opportunity of studying contem-
porary painting. There was little or
nothing in many of these imported

works to suggest the revo-
lution in painting brought
about by the Impressionists,
and they had not even the
brilliance and precision
that distinguished the best
work of the painters of an
earlier day. These stric-
tures do not apply to the
works shown by, amongst
others, Mr. G. W. Lambert,
Mr. David Muirhead,
Mr. Henry Fullwood,
Mr. Moffat Lindner, and
Mr. Ambrose McEvoy.
The last named showed
a portrait of a little girl,
Anna, exhibited if we
mistake not at last year's

* This report of the R.H.A. exhibition
was written just before the outbreak of the
Rebellion and the destruction by fire of the
Academy building and its entire contents.
Our correspondent had arranged for several
of the exhibits to be photographed for us

before Easter, but difficulties arose at the "the old car-driver "

last moment and this intention could not design for a broadside (cuala press) by jack b. yeats

be carritd out.—Editor. (Black and White Artists'' Society, Dublin)

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