Studio: international art (75.1918)

The Royal Glasgow In:

The Coming of Bride, by Mr. John Duncan, a
tempera painting of rare transparency which
has been acquired by the Glasgow Corporation.

The water-colour section is this year enriched
by a characteristic Arthur Melville, A Cock
Fight; two powerful drawings by Mr. Frank
Brangwyn, The Platelayers and The Alcantara
at Toledo ; a robust contribution by Profes-
sor Moira, Canadian Lumbermen, Devonshire ;
characteristically charming work from Miss
Katherine Cameron, Mr. A. K. Brown, and Mr.
Ewan Geddes, and interesting work by Mr.
Frederic Whiting, Mr. van Anrooy, Mr. W. T.
Wood, Mr. Barnard Lintott, Mr. Louis Haghe,
Mr. G. A. Boden, Mr. W. Y. MacGregor, and
Mr. W. Russell Flint. Particularly pleasing is
the last-named artist's On a West Highland
Beach, here reproduced. In the black-and-
white section, unfortunately crowded into a
long corridor, there is a fine etching of The
Colosseum, by Mr. W. Walcot ; arresting work
by Mr. G. W. Lambert and Mr. Andrew Allan ;
and three etchings by Mr. Fred A. Farrell, of

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special interest being the one entitled Sun on
the Ruins, Ypres.

The sculpture section, though limited, is
interesting by reason of the work of Rodin, Mr.
T. Mewburn Crook, Mr. T. Rosandic, Mr. F. Der-
went Wood, Mr.-Pittendrigh Macgillivray, Mr. A.
Broadbent, Mr. Newbury A. Trent, Mr. Gilbert
Bayes, and Mr. Kellock Brown. J. Taylor.

The prominent position which the Royal
Glasgow Institute holds to-day is in no small
measure due to the devotion and energy of that
distinguished Scottish academician, Mr. A. K.
Brown. He first exhibited at the Institute in
1870, and he is the only survivor of the founders
of the Scottish Royal Society of Painters in
Water-Colours. The testimonial, in the form of
an address and a cheque for £650, which was
presented to him last month, was a well-merited
tribute not only to his great services to art in
Glasgow, but also to the high personal esteem
in which he is held in that city.