Studio: international art (79.1920)

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, 1920

"JOAN” (BRONZE)
BY W. REID DICK

Tree and The Turn of the Road, Mr. D. Y.
Cameron's expansive The Heart of Suther-
land, Mr. Oliver Hall's serious and dignified
Shap Moors, and the brilliant Evening,
Martigues, by Mr. Terrick Williams are
conspicuous achievements ; and there is
great distinction, too, in Sir David Mur-
ray's Clovelly, Sir John Lavery’s snow
scene, The Monk, and Mr. Hughes-
Stanton's finely composed Autumn, North
Wales. There are excellent contributions
from Mr. Albert Goodwin, Mr. J. L.
Henry, Mr. O. Pittman, Mr. J. S. Hill,
and Mr. Bertram Priestman ; and from
Mr. A. J. Munnings comes a series of
singularly expressive paintings, among
which his Epsom Downs and Mrs. Peel's
Poethlyn at Brynypys are, perhaps, the
chief successes. There is a fascinating
Spring, by Mr. Tom Mostyn, which is
wonderful in its vivid sunlight and gay,
clear colour, and there are pictures of a
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very persuasive type from Mr. Stanhope
Forbes, who is still able to find plenty of
good material in his favourite Cornish
villages. Works by Mr. R. W. Allan,
Mr. Sydney Lee, Mr. Moffat Lindner,
and other capable artists, increase the
strength of this section of the exhibition, a
The chief u interior " paintings are those
in which, as in the Peace Conference pic-
tures and some others named above, the
interior is a setting and not the ostensible
or principal motif of the painting, but Mr.
D. Y. Cameron's diploma work, an impres-
sive study of a cathedral interior, Durham,
must certainly be ranked among the most
significant contributions to the show. 0
The best things in the water-colour
room are Mr. Russell Flint's dainty little

study, Miss -posing as Clearista, Mr.

Percy Dixon's The Flats, Bridgewater,
Miss D. W. Hawksley's Moonrise, and
The Discovery of the North Pole, by Mr.