Studio: international art (72.1918)

Studio-Talk

“MATER CHRISTI ” BY MISS S. V. M. KIMBER

(Royal Society of Miniature Painters, 1917)

have on a previous occasion illustrated, is a
member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters,
but the two drawings we now reproduce were
not among the things she showed at the Grafton
Gallery recently, the Autumn Portrait (done on
ivory), which forms one of our supplements
this month, having been exhibited early last
year with the National Society of Portrait
Painters at the Grosvenor Gallery; and The
Chinese Costume study (p. 122) at the Inter-
national Society’s exhibition a few months
earlier. Mrs. Tait belongs to the group of
Australian artists who have settled in this
country, and besides the larger scaled figure-
subjects which she handles with much feeling
and freedom, she displays a marked gift for
miniature painting.

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We have also on various occasions in these
pages and in our “ Year-Book of Decorative
Art ” illustrated or referred to work by Miss
Florence Steele, who enjoys a well-deserved
reputation as a designer and worker in metal,
the multifarious decorative uses of which she
has exploited with much success. That her
work as a designer is not restricted to metal is
evidenced by a recent commission for a monu-
ment, which we illustrate on the opposite page.
This monument was designed for erection over
the family grave of Mr. Waddell, of Glasgow,
and has been carried out in Hoptonwood stone.

Following the Portrait Painters, three other
“ Royal ” societies have opened their doors for
the exhibition of pictures and drawings by their


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ILLUMINATED TEXT BY MISS S. V. M. KIMBER

(Royal Society of Miniature Painters, 1917)