Studio: international art (70.1917)

Studio-Talk

Most of the societies which usually hold
exhibitions in the early months of the year have
carried out their programme this year. Both the
Senefelder Club and the Painter-Etchers, which
were in strong force at the Royal Academy
winter exhibition, mustered good shows at the
Leicester Galleries and the R.W.S. Galleries
respectively, the feature of the former being a
collection of prints by distinguished French
artists who have practised lithography with suc-
cess—Daumier, Fantin-Latour, Steinlen, Manet,
Renoir, Corot, etc. At the Painter-Etchers’
we noted especially the contributions of some
new recruits—Miss Sylvia Gosse, Miss Margaret
Dobson, Mr. Leonard Squirrell, and Mr. Haigh-
Wood—whose work, particularly when concerned
with figure subjects, cer-
tainly added to the interest
of the exhibition. The
exhibition of the Society
of Women Artists (R.B.A.

Galleries) and the Women’s
International Art Club
(Grafton Galleries) de-
pended for their success
upon the work of a com-
paratively small number
of artists in both cases,
but the average quality of
the work shown was by
no means discreditable, and
in both cases some excel-
lent examples of handicraft
were on view. The Aero-
nautical Exhibition organ-
ized by the Countess of
Drogheda at the Grosvenor
Galler}^ in aid of service
funds contained, besides
many interesting models, a
unique collection of prints
and pictures of various
dates, some very recent, in
which air-craft are repre-
sented. Modern aerial loco-
motion has provided artists
with a new motive, but
their representations of
aircraft in motion are not
always successful, though
several notable exceptions
were included in the ex-
hibition.

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EDINBURGH.—Hitherto Scotland has
occupied a very subsidiary position
as regards monumental or any form
of the noble art of sculpture, but it
may be hoped that with the Gladstone Memorial
recently unveiled there will be created a new
sense of the value of sculpture, in Edinburgh
in particular, where there are so many ideal
sites for such work. Yet with this wealth of
available spaces, and spaces that could well be
made available, there was such acute controversy
over the site to be chosen that years of delay
in the erection of the statue occurred, and the
site eventually selected is the least suitable of
the six which were in contemplation. Its chief
claim is that it is in the very heart of the cit\7—

GLADSTONE MEMORIAL, EDINBURGH
PITTENDRIGH MACGILLIVRAY, R.S.A., SCULPTOR