Studio: international art (70.1917)

The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

Herbert S. Palmer, Mr. H. E. H. MacDonald,
and Mr. Arthur Lismer. Mr. Palmer is in
particular a strong painter and a clever draughts-
man who has made very notable strides during
the last year or two. Mr. MacDonald always
displays in his work a bigness of feeling and an
excellent sense both of pattern and colour.
In Mr. Lismer’s A Westerly Gale, Georgian Bay,
purchased by the Government, the suggestion
of wind and movement is admirably conveyed.

Another picture purchased for the National
Gallery, The Play Hour, by Mr. Arthur D.
Rosaire, though perhaps not entirely charac-
teristic of the manner of this promising young
artist, must be considered more successful, in
many respects, than much of his former work.
The subject is a tree-fringed pool with geese,
rendered in quiet tones of grey and green, and the
general effect is atmospheric and tuneful. Mr.
Homer Watson in March Evening and Breaking
Winter has aimed to record effects of sunlight on
frost-bound fields. Other distinctively Canadian

landscapes worthy of special mention are Mr.
Charles de Belle's soulful and refined Depression ;
Miss Alice des Clayes’ Flooded Land, Kirkfield,
Ont. ; Mr. W. E. Atkinson's The Afternoon
Thaw ; Miss Harriet Ford’s A Winter Land-
scape ; Mr. John Hammond’s Birch Dale, W.B. ;
Mr. H. Ivan Neilson’s An October Day, Cap
Rouge River ; Mr. G. A. Reid’s A Winter Sunset ;
Mrs. Mary H. Reid's Marshy Woods, November ;
Mr. G. Horne Russell’s Seal Cove, Grand Manan,
N.B. (purchased by the Canadian Government) ;
and Mr. Percy F. Woodcock’s Cote des Neiges,
Winter. In addition there were several praise-
worthy landscape works, the subjects for which
were found outside of Canada, among them being
some deliciously colourful canvases of Cuban
landscape by Mr. W. H. Clapp ; striking pictures
of the Cornish coast by Mr. Harry Britton ; Mr.
Albert H. Robinson’s Old Sea Wall, St. Malo, and
Old Market Place, Nice ; Mr. Bell-Smith's St.
Mary-le-Strand; and Mr. John Johnstone’s Rue
de Venise, Paris, and Pont Aven, Bretagne.

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BY ALBERT H. ROBINSON