Studio: international art (68.1916)

Studio- Talk

has succeeded in bringing together a representative ] EDINBURGH.—Among the younger
collection of prints and drawings, which afford a I I Scottish painters Mr. Charles H. Mackie

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striking demonstration of the interest now being occupies an outstanding position as a

taken in Dublin in black-and-white work. Mr. A—J colourist. Fertile in ideas, he is attached
Crampton Walker's design for a woodcut Sfiow to no school of painting, but has worked out the
(reproduced on p. 55) shows a sense of rhythm problems of colour and composition for himself
and pattern and much vivacity of expression, and since his emergence from the student days. No
his charcoal study The Falls of Tummel is full of thinker can discard the heritage of the ages, and
light and atmosphere. Mr. George Atkinson's Mr. Mackie would be the last man of whom that
powers as an etcher are admirably displayed in could be said, but on the other hand no one who
The Devil's Bridge, Settignano. He also exhibits aspires to express his ideas, either in literature,
some delicate pencil studies and a charming wood- music, painting, or sculpture, can suffer any con-
cut Design for a Cot, one of a series of designs for vention or academic canon to circumscribe the
a set of cottage furniture now being carried out in mode in which he feels that he can most fully
the Irish technical schools. Mr. Jack Yeats's express himself. Mr. Mackie in his earlier work
virile line is seen in his set of original drawings may have given colour to the suggestion that
for a broadside; The
Canvas Man and The Old
Car-driver are especially
effective in their strong
feeling for characterisa-
tion. The old streets and
bridges of Dublin have
attracted several of the
exhibitors, amongst them
Miss Myra Hughes, an
accomplished etcher, and
Mr. B. McGuinness, who
shows a pleasant drawing
of a picturesque old
street, with its stalls and
open market, and the
tower of St. Patrick's
Cathedral in the distance.
This street has since been
re-built, and altered out of
all recognition. Amongst
the other exhibitors are
Mr. Gerald Wakeman,
whose pen-and ink draw-
ings are full of vitality and
feeling for the expressive
quality of line ; Miss
Estella Solomons, whose
sandground etching Near
Dublin is very delicate in
treatment; Lieut. Robert
Gibbings, whose woodcut
The Retreat from Serbia
is strong and original in
design; and Miss Dorothy
Cox, who shows a good

charcoal drawing Sheep " sheep in the rain " charcoal drawing by dorothy cox

in the Rain. E. D. (Black and White Artists' Society, Dublin)

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