Studio: international art (76.1919)

Studio- Talk

Office, was also missed, as were likewise the Mr. Arthur Crisp's decorative figure subject, The

convincing and distinctive canvases of the late Strollers ; Mr. G. Home Russell's Academy

Tom Thomson, who met a premature and tragic diploma picture of Second-Lieutenant Norman

end by drowning last spring, to the great loss W. Russell, R.A.F. ; and Mis? Marion Long's

of Canadian art. The Japanese Parasol. Mr. Charles de Belle's

-- 1919, a group of dainty young girls dancing

As usual, portraiture and figure subjects were in a flower-bedecked meadow, had refinement
not a strong and charm.

feature of the . ..... ______ --

exhibition, fhe Canadian art,

examples were however,is find-

few in number, ■itui£&i&&*. ing its most

and of these j^HHk^, convincing ex-

but. two or three pression in the

painted with '*^^|^' notably in the

the masterli- Jfv^- -. j^J paintings of the

ness and under- younger school,

st^ ^ ^ ^ '"'"^ ^j^/ °*

cian and "art ^^W^^kk service, first as

lover. In Type Kf ' ] a private in an

Canadien, ' infantry regi-

Etude, Mr. M. ment, and more

A. Suzor - Cote j recently, after

interested him- ^N**. recovery from

self in an ex- wounds, as an

tremely difficult artist on the

problem — the staff of the

essay of an out- Canadian War
of-door portrait study of a child by Gertrude des clayes. a.r.c.a. Records Office,

m sunlight with {Koyal Canadian Academy) the WQrk by

the figure in which he was

shadow. He approached the problem with represented at the recent exhibition served more

courage and skill; and produced a head of a than ever to establish his position as a strong

typical elderly French-Canadian habitant that and talented painter of marked individuality,

was striking both as a study of character and In everything that he produces there is inten-

as an example of the skilful handling of paint, tion and thought, and his pictures are " big "

Other portraits and figure subjects deserving both in conception and spirit. His large canvas,

of mention are Study of a Child, by Miss The North Country, is without doubt one of the

Gertrude des Clayes; the Major-General S. C. most important paintings of landscape yet pro-

Mewburn, Minister of Militia, and the Dr. D. duced by a Canadian artist, and more nearly

Jamieson, Speaker of the Ontario Legislation, of expresses the spirit and feeling of Canada than

Mr. E. Wyly Grier; La Noni, by Andre anything that has yet been done. The motive

Lapine ; Girl in Red, by Mrs. Emily Coonan ; for the picture is a mass of grey glaciated rock
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