Studio: international art (76.1919)

Studio- Talk

the arts of painting, sculpture, and engraving West, forming part of a series of " Northwood
will be in any way prejudiced by his occupancy Silhouettes," which take their name from the
of the chair of Reynolds. artist's Middlesex home.

The pencil portraits of the Duchess of Rut- Mr. Walter Greaves's Portrait of Miss Alice
land, of which two examples are reproduced on Greaves (Tinnie), which we reproduce on page 61,
page 56, have formed part

been on view jgfr of a group

recently at n ^Bfck of works ex-

the Fine Art ; L^flHr hibited early

Society's gal- jm BwiiBfc^iMrtlMlliM-'^ ^YTm MflKflL last month at

lories. For KHBHflh mm WlL the Goupil

thirty years V:=*^ WLfl Gallery, Re-

past the ^IR^^^^Bt !~ l^mlfj^*^ m- gent Street,

Duchess has W ■ V-^T/lv^ / Mmm^mmmmv Prior to bein§

been a con- F W ^fll BP^"C*' dispatched to

stant and y * ^ . ^4iwmm^ ^he J°hannes-

ever-improv- burg Munici-

ing worker northwood silhouettes: "market day." by j. walter west, r.w.s. Gallery

with her pen- the other

cil, and has portrayed a very large number of items consisting of a portrait of General Smuts

celebrities, political and social. Naturally this by Mr. William Nicholson, pictures of Capri

work has been pursued mainly as a hobby, by Mr. Harold Squire, and The Alhambra,

but latterly her talented pencil has been turned Leicester Square, by the late C. E. Holloway,

to account as a means of benefiting the Rut- two drawings by Mr. Eric Kennington, a Por-

land Hospital for Wounded Soldiers, to help trait of th; Swazi Queen-Regent by Mr. A. J. S.

towards the maintenance of which the Duchess Ockenden of Johannesburg, and an interesting

now accepts collection of

commissions English and

Continental

for pencil por- .^mmm*J£ ^j^a

general pub- ■HpRl KB

lie. It is in- -^B mw^^ '^w0 exm"

teresting to ^| wr^^KtT^^^S^/9^^Fi bit ions of

note that the V I ^ffiBR\ ^^3B^^^3ll lBl original litho-

Musee du ■' I JmWj \ JmW graphs have

Luxembourg W I VKw X / I \ jr 4m mm. been held in

in Paris has iff* | mff ^*mmmm^ London dur-

acquired sev- ing the past

eral of her northwood silhouettes: "coal rations." by j. Walter west, r.w.s. |gw wee]jS_

portraits. one at the

- Mansard Gallery of Messrs. Heal and Son in

Mr. Russell Flint's service with the Royal Tottenham Court Road; and the other at
Naval Volunteer Reserve, in which he holds a the Leicester Galleries, comprising the work of
commission, has, fortunately, not debarred him members of the Senefelder Club, supplemented
from contributing to the exhibitions of the Old by a very interesting selection of prints by
Water-Colour Society. Usually in his drawings distinguished French masters of the medium,
the human figure forms a prominent feature, The Mansard Gallery display consisted of the
but in The Black Sky, which we reproduce as a various sets of prints commemorating our
supplement, we have an impressive essay in pure national " Efforts and Ideals in the Great War "
landscape. The drawing was exhibited in the which were the subject of an article in this
recent winter show of the Society, in which were magazine about the time of their first appear-
also shown the three drawings by Mr. J. Walter ance, and it is therefore unnecessary to say

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