Studio: international art (77.1919)

STUDIO-TALK

therein 1915 we reproduced some examples,
and now, from one which closed a short
time ago, we illustrate two further examples.

The purchase by the Chantrey Trustees
of Mr. W. Reid Dick's bronze mask,
Androdus, one of three works representing
him in this year's Royal Academy, is a
well-deserved compliment to one of the
most promising of our younger sculptors.
Mr. Dick, who had already begun to make
a name for himself when the Great War
broke out in 1914, voluntarily enlisted as a
private in its early stages, but the rigours of
campaigning on the Western Front have
not diminished his devotion to art, and the
promise of his earlier career is being ful-
filled with increase by the work he has done
since his demobilization a few months ago.

From Copenhagen we have received
notification of the death of an English
painter, Mr. Charles Richard Tooby, who,
though almost unknown in his native
country, had prior to the war gained a high
reputation as an animal painter in Ger-
many. The deceased artist was born in
London in 1863, but early in life went to
Weimar to study painting, subsequently
settling in Munich, where he resided for
twenty-five years and took a prominent
part in the principal art exhibitions, par-
ticularly those of the Secession, of which
he was a member. Examples of his work
were acquired by the chief public collec-
tions in Germany, but his long domicile in
the Bavarian capital did not extinguish his
English sympathies, and soon after war
broke out he was sent to Ruhleben. The
hardships he suffered during his confine-
ment in this camp so seriously undermined
his health that when eventually released
he was past hope of recovery. He leaves
a widow and several children who are living
in London in very necessitous circum-
stances, and one of his sons has recently
returned from a prison camp in Germany
broken in body and soul. 000

READING.—In the School of Art, Uni-
versity College, Reading, were recently
shown a collection of colour-prints from
wood-blocks. The exhibition was of some
importance, for never before had there
been brought together so many works of
this type by western students. It was
interesting to see that though the craft

follows the Japanese method and technique,
many of the prints showed little of its
influence, the students having adapted the
process to suit their own personal vision.
Mr. Seaby, the teacher, exhibited some of
his better-known prints of birds, with a
few new ones, and Mr. Pearce and Mr.
Whiteside contributed some landscapes.
The number and variety of the prints
enabled one to estimate the development of
the craft, though it would be hard to fore-
tell its future. Students with an interest
in colour, and who are looking for a means
of reproduction, ought to find in it an
outlet for their energies. 000

“ANDRODUS.” BRONZE
MASK BY W. REID DICK

(Purchased by Chantrey Trustees)

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