Studio: international art (74.1918)

Studio- Talk

"THE VENICE FAN "

colour which created such lively interest at the
Grafton Galleries early this summer has been
followed by one at the Institute Galleries,
Piccadilly, in which naval incidents and opera-
tions are displayed on the same large scale and
with the same remarkable realism. Merely as
products of the camera these enlarged prints,
some of them of huge dimensions, are im-
pressive, so clearly and faithfully do they
reproduce the forms and tints of the objects
portrayed, but they have a still higher claim to
the attention of the British landsman in that
they help him to realize how great is the debt
he owes to our maritime forces, upon whose
untiring vigilance under all sorts of arduous
conditions our very existence depends.

Mr. Frank Spenlove-Spenlove's notable pic-
ture, Green Shutters—Viaticum, Belgium, ex-
hibited in Gallery No. V at this yeai's Royal
Academy, has been purchased by the City of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne for the permanent collec-
tion at the Laing Art Gallery. Several of this
well-known artist's works have in recent years
been acquired for public collections at home and
abroad.

BRIGHTON. —Miss Stella Langdale,
whose work has already been referred
to in the pages of this magazine,
has in the course of the past two or
three years devoted her attention to the medium

AQUATINT BY STELLA LANGDALE

of aquatint with very successful results, as
evidenced by the numerous prints she has
produced, of which the two now reproduced—
The Venice Fan and The Slaggan Pass—may be
taken as typical examples. Her experiments
include some interesting essays in the production
of colour-prints from a single plate, a method
which the early English aquatinters in coloui
frequently employed, but which is now less
commonly practised than the French method of
using separate plates for the several colours
introduced. Miss Langdale's work shows a
predilection for subjects of a grave or serious
character—this is seen in the illustrations she
has executed in recent years for two notable
books—Newman's " Dream of Gerontius " and
Stephen Phillips's " Christ in Hades "—and the
same temperament is adumbrated in her
impressive print of The Slaggan Pass.

DUNFERMLINE.—We illustrate two
examples of work recently executed
by Mr. Andrew Samuel, A.R.C.A.,
craftmaster at the Craft School
established by the Carnegie Trust in this town,
both of which are commendable as avoiding the
faults all too frequently present in things of the
kind. Illuminated addresses and kindred docu-
ments are often written in a script which can
only be read with difficulty, but in this Burgess
Ticket Mr. Samuel has taken care that the
writing should be readable—as writing always

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