Studio: international art (68.1916)

The National Galleries of Queensland and West Australia

bust of sir winthrop hackett by eva e. benson

is well selected. The black-and-white section
includes drawings by Lord Leighton, Charles
Keene, Fred Walker, Phil May, and etchings by
Whistler, Strang, D. Y. Cameron, and Legros.

Among the Australian pictures there are two
works by the late John Ford Paterson, one of the
finest artists that Australia has produced. The
Great Southern Ocean attracted the attention of
R. A. M. Stevenson when it was exhibited in
London, and Sunset on the Yarra is another good
example. Down on his Luck by Fred McCubbin
belongs to the artist's earlier period which culmi-
nated in the painting of The Pioneers in the
Melbourne Gallery. These two works are part
of a series which pictoiialise the struggles of the
strong men and women who opened out the track
when Australia was more or less a wilderness.
The canvases of two of our leading figure-painters,
Rupert Bunny and E. Phillips-Fox, lend distinction
to the group, which includes among the pictures
by artists from other States a characteristic
landscape by Will Ashton.

Among the group of West Australian artists
represented in the Australian section is G. Pitt
Morison, who holds a leading place as a land-
scape painter. Besides Springtime, Blackburn,
Victoria, the artist has two other Gallery works
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and a fine copy of a painting by Velasquez.
Mr. Morison first studied at the schools at the
National Gallery, Melbourne, and subsequently
under Lefebvre, Benjamin Constant, and Doucet
at the Academie Julian in Paris. On his
return to Melbourne he, with other painters,
established the well-known artists' camp at Black-
burn, about twenty miles from the capital. He
subsequently went to West Australia, where he
became Art Assistant to the Director of the
Gallery. Most of his work is in oils, but recently
he has been doing pastels, which have attracted
much attention among art-lovers in Perth. Mr.
Morison was formerly President, and is now
Secretary, of the West Australian Society of Arts.

Miss Florence Fuller, who resided in Perth for
some years, was equally successful as a portrait
and a landscape painter. She was one of the few
artists who got sittings from Cecil Rhodes, whose
portrait is one of several works by which she is
represented in the Gallery. The artist also painted
portraits of Sir James G. Lee Steere, Mr. Bernard
Woodward, and other well-known West Austra-
lians. Another portrait-painter who is doing

"Esther" by harold barker