Studio: international art (79.1920)

THE EDINBURGH GROUP

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“ OPEN AIR.” WATER-COLOUR
BY JOHN R. BARCLAY

time pupils of his. He died on November 12,
1903, having devoted the whole of his life to
work. For him work was the panacea for
all ills. On one occasion he said to Octave
Mirbeau, the French critic, u Le travail est
un merveilleux regulateur de sante mo-
rale et physique. Toutes les tristesses,
toutes les amertumes, toutes les douleurs,
je les oublie, et meme je les ignore, dans la
joie de travailler. ... La souffrance n'a
de prise que sur les paresseux. . . .” 0

[A memorial exhibition of the works of
Camille Pissarro is being held at the Leices-
ter Galleries, Leicester Square, and will re-
main open till some time in June.—Editor.]

THE EDINBURGH GROUP. BY E.
A. TAYLOR. 0000

A PROBLEM which often confronts
the artist and causes him almost
if not quite as much perplexity as that
which he has to solve in dealing with some
intricate composition, is the discovery of
suitable means of exhibiting the results
of his labour to the world, and young artists
especially find themselves seriously handi-
capped at a critical stage in their careers
by lack of facilities for showing their
work to advantage. Co-operation seems
to be the most effectual means of over-
coming the difficulty, and it has certainly