Studio: international art (79.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

“H.M.S. 'CALEDON :IN THE ICE
OFF LIBAU, JANUARY 1919.”
WATER-COLOUR BY CECIL KING

(The property of the Imperial War
Museum)

effort on the part of these women painters
to simulate qualities appropriate to the
work of men and to repress any manifesta-
tion of feminine feeling and outlook, though
the charm and grace begotten thereby
would in their case be preferable to a
display of affected virility, a a

Turner was again the glory of Messrs.
Agnew and Sons' annual exhibition of
selected water-colour drawings by artists
of the early English School, the collection
displayed containing more than thirty
examples of his work, ranging in date from
1796 to 1843, and comprising some of the
finest productions of his magic brush.
De Wint, Copley Fielding, David Cox,
Girtin, Gainsborough, J. R. Cozens, and,
among artists of a later date, R. W. Hunt,
E. M. Wimperis, D. G. Rossetti, and Sir
John Millais were represented in the
exhibition, a a a a 0
At the Goupil Gallery a miscellaneous
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group of pictures comprised some recent
work by Mr. William Nicholson, including
some of those essays in still-life paint-
ing for which he is famous, and two or
three landscapes; and in another room
were assembled a large and interesting
collection of paintings and drawings of
Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia, and
India made by Sidney and Richard Carline
for the Imperial War Museum. At the
Fine Art Society's there was an exhibition
of landscape paintings by the Hon. Walter
James, nearly all of them low-toned vistas
of those broad stretches of country for
which this artist evinces a decided par-
tiality. The water-colour landscapes of
Mr. Reginald Smith, A.R.W.S., in an
adjacent room, though a little insipid in
colour, showed an excellent appreciation
of atmospheric subtleties. An interesting
exhibition of pastels at the Eldar Gallery
(Great Marlborough Street) comprised