Studio: international art (72.1918)

Studio- Talk

TRIPTYCH IN STAINED WOOD AND GESSO. BY MISS HILDA JOYCE POCOCK

[Royal Society of Miniature Painters)

individual qualities in his work,
and especially a more coura-
geous sense of colour than many
of the members can own to.
It would be difficult to single
out any work in the present
exhibition as being of out-
standing importance, but there
are a few paintings—among
them Miss Dorothea Sharp’s
Daisy Land and Shrimps, and
Miss Madeline Wells’s Back-
gammon Players—and, as usual,
a varied and interesting col-
lection of water-colours and
prints, which ledeem it from
being what would otherwise
be a monotonous display.
Much the same has to be said
of the annual exhibition of
the Royal Institute of Oil
Painters. Here technical ac-
complishment is on a some-
what higher plane, but dex-
terity of craftsmanship is so
often applied to trite and
commonplace purposes that its
results yield little or none of
that gratification which comes
from work of real inspiration,
though maybe of less tech-
nical efficiency. “ The Old,
Old Story ” as a title might
well be applied to many pic-
tures besides the one to which
it belongs, because of the strong
resemblance they bear to others

members and associates. The
British Artists, in Suffolk
Street, have nothing on this
occasion from their presi-
dent, Mr. Brangwyn, to
help their well - arranged
display, and lacking, too
(apparently as the result
of military exigencies), is
the animation which recent
exhibitions of this society
have derived from the work
of Mr. E. A. Cox, who,
though obviously an ad-
mirer of Mr. Brangwyn’s
methods, has shown marked

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