Studio: international art (71.1917)

Studio- Talk

of Painters in Water Colours) ; E. A. Walton,
R.S.A. (President, Royal Scottish Society of
Painters in Water Colours) ; J. Coutts Michie
(Vice-President, Aberdeen Artists Society) ;
Robert Home (President, Society of Scottish
Artists) ; Alfred Drury, R.A. (President, Society
of Artists, Birmingham) ; E. Rimbault Dibdin
(President, Museums Association) ; Frank Wal-
ton (President, Royal Institute of Oil Painters) ;
Janet Stancomb-Wills (President, Royal West
of England Academy) ; Nellie M. Hepburn
Edmunds (Vice-President, Royal Society of
Miniature Painters) ; A. S. Hartrick (Acting
President, Senefelder Club) ; S. Melton Fisher
(Chairman, Pastel Society) ; L. Kemp-Welch
(President, Society of Animal Painters) ; Michael
Simons (President, Royal Glasgow Institute of
Fine Arts). _

In reply to a question put by a Member in
the House of Commons on August 9, Mr. Bonar
Law stated that the letter was under considera-
tion by the Government.

Our supplements this month include a repro-
duction in colour of a tapestry panel, Danae,
designed by Mr. Edmund Dulac, and woven
by M. Leo Belmonte at his atelier in Paris, its
ultimate destination being the United States.

Our remaining illustrations show two attrac-
tive examples of needlework designed and worked
by Mrs. George, a Manchester artist, with the
co-operation of Miss Grimshaw. Mrs. George's
work consists mostly of embroidery and stained
work of a decorative character, and in conjunc-
tion with her husband, now serving with the

Royal Flying Corps, she has executed numerous
figure panels for rooms designed by him.

The Art Teachers' Guild has drawn up a series
of recommendations which it desires to make
to the Reconstruction Committee when dealing
with Educational Reform. Premising that " the
highest aim of education being the formation of
character, great importance must be attached to
those studies' which . . . lead to the appreciation
of what is fitting and worthy in life," the Guild
urges that " art work should be included in the
curriculum of every school " and should include
" colour, modelling, imaginative drawing, design
and craft work, drawing from nature, and other
objects, both directly and from memory."

We much regret to record the death of Miss
Hilda Fearon, well known as an exhibitor at the
Royal Academy, the International, and the
New English Exhibitions. She excelled in
studies of figures and still-life out of doors, in
full sunlight, and a delicate sense of colour and a
natural spontaneity of style gave lyrical charm
to her work, which had many of the attractive
features that characterize the painting of the
self-taught. A brief period at the " Slade," and
later some coaching, was all the strictly pro-
fessional training she received.

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The following artists have been elected
members of the Council of the British Water-
Colour Society: Mr. John Barker, Mr. A.
Warren Dow, R.B.A., Mr. E. W. Haslehurst,
R.B.A., Mr. Thomas Huson, R.I., Mr. William
Matthison, Mr. E. Sharland, Mr. W. S. Stacey,
and Mr. W. Vanderlyn, R.I. '

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