DOI issue:
No. 285 (December 1916)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0154
Studio- Talk
Apart from the small group of pictures which bore interesting portrait-studies in pencil. Apart from
witness to Mr. Teed's unobtrusive but sincere portraiture the exhibition does not offer many
art, the Susannah and the Elders of Mr. Frank figure-subjects of outstanding note, but we would
Brangwyn, the President, somewhat similar to the mention especially Mr. F. H. Newbery's In Lyon-
version of the same subject which we reproduced esse, Mr. Russell Flint's Woodman and Hama-
in colour in February 1911, and a few other works, dryad, Mr. P. Bertieri's Japonais a la Guitare,
the exhibition contained little of outstanding Mrs. Laura Knight's Le Carnaval, Mr. Glyn
interest, some of those whose pictures we have Philpot's Laocoon, Mr. Strang's In Wonderla?id
on former occasions noted with satisfaction being and Decoration of Ceres, and by way of anti-
either not represented at all or showing work thesis to these two works both in method and
which compared unfavourably with their earlier subject, Miss Frances Hodgkins' forceful study of
achievement. plebeian physiognomy, Unshatterable, Mr. Harold
Knight's Early Morning and Mallows, both admir-
As regards the International Society, which too able examples of plein-air painting. Mr. Orpen
has some of its prominent members on active is represented only by an early work, The Play Scene
service, it is, of course, hardly necessary to say in " Hamkt," a souvenir of his student days and
that the current display at the Grosvenor Gallery as such certainly a remarkable accomplishment,
again lacks the international character of ante- There is little that is noteworthy in landscape
bellum shows, for though among the exhibitors painting beyond Mr. Cameron's Cruachan Ben,
are several with foreign names, they are all or Mr. Lamorna Birch's Tregiffian, Mr. Gere's The
most of them the names of artists domiciled Slopes of Mottarone, Mr. Peppercorn's Early
in the United Kingdom. The honours of the Morning (a fine sea-coast study), Mr. Oliver Hall's
exhibition rest chiefly with
Mr. Ambrose McEvoy,who
shows four portraits in oil
and one in water-colour,
the most important both
as regards scale and as
indicative of the artist's
very personal methods
being that of Her Grace
the Duchess of Marlborough,
though in respect of colour
we prefer the half-length
of Mrs. Spender Clay.
Other notable essays in
portraiture are shown by
Mr. Gerald Kelly, Mr.
Howard Somerville,
Mr. P. H. de Laszlo
(Study of Two Indian
Officers, reproduced in our
issue of August last), Mr.
William Strang (Panchita
Zorolla, a striking study in
yellow and black), Mr.
Oswald Birley (Brigadier-
General E. Morton, one of
the very few military por-
traits shown on this occa-
sion), Mr. Georges Claeys
(Miss Montgomerie), and
Mr. G. W. Lambert, who
has sent half a dozen very "MALLOWS" (International Society) BY HAROLD KNIGHT
T44
Apart from the small group of pictures which bore interesting portrait-studies in pencil. Apart from
witness to Mr. Teed's unobtrusive but sincere portraiture the exhibition does not offer many
art, the Susannah and the Elders of Mr. Frank figure-subjects of outstanding note, but we would
Brangwyn, the President, somewhat similar to the mention especially Mr. F. H. Newbery's In Lyon-
version of the same subject which we reproduced esse, Mr. Russell Flint's Woodman and Hama-
in colour in February 1911, and a few other works, dryad, Mr. P. Bertieri's Japonais a la Guitare,
the exhibition contained little of outstanding Mrs. Laura Knight's Le Carnaval, Mr. Glyn
interest, some of those whose pictures we have Philpot's Laocoon, Mr. Strang's In Wonderla?id
on former occasions noted with satisfaction being and Decoration of Ceres, and by way of anti-
either not represented at all or showing work thesis to these two works both in method and
which compared unfavourably with their earlier subject, Miss Frances Hodgkins' forceful study of
achievement. plebeian physiognomy, Unshatterable, Mr. Harold
Knight's Early Morning and Mallows, both admir-
As regards the International Society, which too able examples of plein-air painting. Mr. Orpen
has some of its prominent members on active is represented only by an early work, The Play Scene
service, it is, of course, hardly necessary to say in " Hamkt," a souvenir of his student days and
that the current display at the Grosvenor Gallery as such certainly a remarkable accomplishment,
again lacks the international character of ante- There is little that is noteworthy in landscape
bellum shows, for though among the exhibitors painting beyond Mr. Cameron's Cruachan Ben,
are several with foreign names, they are all or Mr. Lamorna Birch's Tregiffian, Mr. Gere's The
most of them the names of artists domiciled Slopes of Mottarone, Mr. Peppercorn's Early
in the United Kingdom. The honours of the Morning (a fine sea-coast study), Mr. Oliver Hall's
exhibition rest chiefly with
Mr. Ambrose McEvoy,who
shows four portraits in oil
and one in water-colour,
the most important both
as regards scale and as
indicative of the artist's
very personal methods
being that of Her Grace
the Duchess of Marlborough,
though in respect of colour
we prefer the half-length
of Mrs. Spender Clay.
Other notable essays in
portraiture are shown by
Mr. Gerald Kelly, Mr.
Howard Somerville,
Mr. P. H. de Laszlo
(Study of Two Indian
Officers, reproduced in our
issue of August last), Mr.
William Strang (Panchita
Zorolla, a striking study in
yellow and black), Mr.
Oswald Birley (Brigadier-
General E. Morton, one of
the very few military por-
traits shown on this occa-
sion), Mr. Georges Claeys
(Miss Montgomerie), and
Mr. G. W. Lambert, who
has sent half a dozen very "MALLOWS" (International Society) BY HAROLD KNIGHT
T44