Studio: international art (79.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

“ LA SEPARATION.” FROM THE
PAINTING BY WILLIAM LAPARRA

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Shepherd, Mr. Gerald Kelly, Mr. Oswald
Birley; and the interest of the show was
strengthened by the work of non-members
such as Mr. Howard Somerville, Mrs.
Filson Young, and Senor Guevara. 0
Under the presidency of Sir Frank
Short, R.A., the policy of the Royal
Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
has of late years been to encourage young
artists of promise by electing them As-
sociates of the Society. This policy has
much to commend it, and the work shown
at the thirty-eighth exhibition, held last
month in the “ Old '' Water Colour
Society's Galleries, by those who have
been elected during the past two or three
years afforded ample justification for it.
One of the results of this infusion of new
blood is a greater diversity of method and

subject, and even if the efforts of the newer
recruits may not stand comparison from
the point of view of technique with those
of their seniors, they are welcome as
evidence of vitality and as a relief to the
monotony which often ensues from ex-
clusiveness. The exhibition was also not-
able for the representation given for the
first time to wood engraving. Mr. Noel
Rooke and Mrs. Raverat, the two Asso-
ciates recently elected under the Society's
enlarged sphere of activity, contributed to
the display, and Mr. Sydney Lee and Mr.
William Robins were also represented by
wood-block prints; while an additional
feature of interest was a series of war
prints by Mons. Steinlen, who has become
an Honorary Fellow of the Society. 0
The Painter-Etchers have so far ab-

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