Studio: international art (70.1917)

The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

Cross, which he won for an act of great gallantry.
In The Last Flowers, Mr. Charles de Belle
has given beautiful expression to a wholly
delightful and poetical conception. This has
been purchased for the National Collection, and
will worthily represent the artist there. Refer-
ence should moreover be made to the naive and
interesting paintings The Orphans and Girl
with Baskets, by Miss Emily Coonan ; to two
flower and still-life studies of admhrable quality
by Miss Florence Carlyle ; to two paintings of
mothers and children, so tender in feeling, by
Mrs. Laura Muntz Lyall; to Miss Estelle M.
Kerr's well-studied Reflections ; to Miss Bertha
cles Clayes’ Goosegirl; to Miss Marion Long’s
The Black Fan ; and to Mr. Peter C. Sheppard's
ambitious picture The Bridge Builders.

Among the works in black and white, drawings
by Mr. Wilfred M. Barnes, Mr. Frederick S.
Challener, and Capt. Louis Keene call for remark,

as do the etchings shown
bv Mr. Herbert Raine.

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In the sculpture section
interesting contributions
came from Mr. A. Lali-
berte, Mr. Emanuel Hahn,
and Mr. Hamilton Mac-
Carthy.

The Academy awarded
the Travelling Scholar-
ship, offered by the
Trustees of the National
• Gallery, to Mr. Edward

R. Glen, of London, Ont.

H. Mortimer-Lamb.

The late E. A. Abbey,

R. A.—Mr. E. V. Lucas,
who has been invited by
Mrs. Abbey to write a
memoir of the late E. A.
Abbey, R.A., asks that
such of our readers as
have letters from that
artist, and are willing to
lend them for possible
publication, will be good
enough to send them to
him at Chelsea Lodge,
42 Tite Street, London,

S. W., where they will be
carefully handled, copied,
and quickly returned.

Of the portraits shown Mr. Curtis Williamson’s
W. Cruickshanks, R.C.A., one of Canada’s
pioneer artists, compelled attention by its
masterly characterization. One can only regret
that an artist of Mr. Williamson’s outstanding
ability should not be more prolific ; that he is not
may be attributed largely to the supremely high
standard which he aims to attain and to the
hypercritical severity of his judgment of his
own efforts. Another satisfying and charming
portrait, Evelyn and Baby, Daughters of W. R.
Machines, Esq., was exhibited by Miss Gertrude
des Clayes. The portrait of Sergeant P.
Stearns, Esq., by Mr. E. Dyonnet, Secretary of
the Academjq is dignified and a sound piece of
craftsmanship ; while two excellent portraits
were also shown by Mr. E. Wyly Grier. Mr.
Robert Harris, C.M.G., and Sergeant Charles
Maillard exhibited self-portraits—the latter in
his uniform as a “ poilu,” wearing the Military

SELF-PORTRAIT

BY ROBERT HARRIS, C.M.G., R.C.A.

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