Studio: international art (75.1918)

Studio- Talk

DINBURGH.—Though the Annual Ex-
i hibition of the Society of Scottish
Artists, held in four of the rooms of
J the Royal Scottish Academy Galleries
in November and December, contained a
smaller number of pictures than the Society has
bi ought together for a number of years the
quality of the work did not show deterioration.

Small in numbers, the portraiture and figure
studies were good in quality. Mr. Robert Home,
hitherto known only as a landscape painter,
produced an excellent portrait of Lord Guthrie
in civilian garb. Mr. Hamish Paterson's full-
length portrait of a lady had an air of distinction.
Mr. David Alison contributed a good portrait
of Councillor Macfarlane, and Miss Dorothy
Johnstone a clever figure study of a lady, its
title, Summer Time, expressing the underlying
idea. One of the most attractive pictures in
the collection was Miss Sara McGregor's Teddy's

Toilet, not only emotionally expressive, but of
exceptionally fine colour quality.

The new President, Mr. J. Murray Thomson,
was represented by three animal studies, of
which the principal was a couple of bears on an
ice floe. Its distinguishing feature was the
rendering of sunlight and shadow on the ice.
In the excellent, large-scaled Loch Katrine
landscape of Mr. Henderson Tarbet, a new view-
point had been selected to biing into the fore-
ground a decorative scheme of birches. Mr.
John Menzies' Voice of the Sea was too cata-
clysmal, but there were lovely passages in the
sky, and there were good qualities in Mr. H. J.
Bell's Highland landscape with its shadowed
foreground of hamlet and heath. Mr. Robert
Hope, in the Mill Stream, bids fair to find new
material in the East Lothian Tyne, and rich
colour symphonies were provided by Mr. Charles
Mackie. Mr. W. B. Reid's views of Ednir, at

' THE TROSSACHS AND LOCH KATRINE '
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{Society of Scottish Artists)

BY HENDERSON TARBET