Studio: international art (75.1918)

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts

extrinsic aids such as striking background. He studies bespeak the versatility of the artist,

takes a simple, subtle colour-scheme—black The Mill among the Dunes, by Mr. H. Hughes-

and white with suggestion of delicate pink and Stanton, would attract in any company, by

lilac—and presents a piece of artistry to which reason of its well-defined foreground and great

one has to return again and again. sweeping sky ; while for subtle sensitiveness

Other striking portraits are sent in by Mr. and decorative feeling Ebb Tide, Benderloch,

E. A. Walton, Mr. John Bowie, Mr. W. Somer- by Mr. J. Campbell Mitchell, at once arrests

ville Shanks, Mr. David Alison, Mr. Henry W. attention. There are three striking representa-

Kerr, Mr. Robert Hope, Mr. Andrew Law, Mr. tive works by Mr. W. A. Gibson, a richly

William Findlay, and Mr. J. B. Anderson, but phrased moorland subject, a French tree

this section suffers by the unusual absence of study, and a Dutch canal with windmill, each

contributions from Sir James Guthrie and Mr. in the unmistakable manner of this acknowledged

Fiddes Watt. master of technique. Mr. George Houston

Landscape painting is well represented by two sends a typical Ayrshire landscape and an

masterly works in tempera by Sir David Murray, Iona study from his two favourite sketching-

P alter dale, a sweeping prospect in the lovely grounds, and Mr. Alexander Roche contributes

Lake District, and Loch Pummel, in the artist's an English summer theme, atmospherically

own unsurpassable country; Rye from the and harmoniously pleasing, which has been

Marshes, with fine sense of distance, by Mr. purchased for the permanent collection by

James Paterson, whose two charming still-life Glasgow Corporation.

"THE MILL"

OIL PAINTING BY J. WHITELAW HAMILTON, A.R.S.A.

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