Studio: international art (76.1919)

Studio- Talk

bis style. Excelling in portraits, he touches
other sides of pictorial art with facility and
success : Veronese by birth, he belongs in his
art entirely to Venice.

At the same time in the Galleria de Conciliis
two other artists exhibited together : in this
case a painter and sculptor. Umbeito Prencipe
is an artist who, living in the quiet atmosphere
of Orvieto—which he told me he far preferred
for his work to Rome—has evolved his own
creative vision without let or hindrance, using
as his medium etching as well as colour. I can
recollect a delightful painting of Orvieto by his
hand in the Rome Secession of 1914 ; and
here, with other subjects, he treated a similar
theme in his etching of Peace at Orvieto, where
above a winding road the grand Cathedral is
outlined against the sky. In the same Secession
Nicola d'Antino came forward with his dainty
and capricious little bronzes of dancing girls.
He fehowed in the De Conciliis some twenty of
theser "figures, graceful, admirable in anatomical

construction, instinct with life and coquetry,
in the large room hung with Prencipe's land-
scapes. S. B.

VANCOUVER.—The annual exhibition
of the British Columbia Society of
Fine Arts held recently in Vancouver
—the seaport of the Western Main-
land—brought together a number of works of
interest, and was intelligently patronized by
the public. As mentioned in a previous article
in The Studio, many of the members of this
Society, which is incorporated by the British
Columbia Government, have studied in London,
Paris, and other European centres. Mr. C.
Marega, this year's President, began his art
education at the celebrated School of Fine Arts,
Mariano, Italy, where he obtained creditable
distinctions, after which he studied in Florence,
Venice, and Rome, and made many peregrina-
tions to other European art-centres. Kate A.
Smith, another member of the Society and an
animal painter of great ability, studied under

' AN ANCIENT GARDEN '
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{Pesaro Gallery, Milan)

BY EMMA CTARDI