Studio: international art (80.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

measure due to the strain which the or-
ganisation of the last exhibition entailed
upon him. To a representative of this
magazine who had a talk with him at the
gallery soon after the opening of the ex-
hibition and a day or two before he was
taken ill, he spoke of the difficulties he
had had to contend with in arranging it,
and it was clear that in his efforts to make
the show as successful as possible he had
not spared himself, though with his
habitual cheerfulness he was, as always,
loth to complain. 0000

From Edinburgh about the same time
came the news of the death of Mr. C. H.
Mackie, member of the Royal Scottish
Academy, chiefly noted for a remarkable
series of Italian landscapes painted by
him in recent years. In these as in all his
work, which besides painting, included
numerous interesting experiments in wood-
block printing, colour is the distinguishing
trait. An example of his landscape paint-
ing was reproduced by us in colour some
four years ago. 0000

At the Dorien Leigh Galleries in Bru-
ton Street an exhibition is being held this
month of modern woodcuts in colour and
monochrome. The exhibits include the
four prints by Mr. Seewald, Mr. Gold-
schmit, and Mr. C. Thiemann respec-
tively, of which reproductions are given
on this and the following pages. 0 0

A portion of the National Gallery of
British Art at Millbank, popularly known
as the Tate Gallery, was reopened to the
public in July, and the improvements
effected both in the arrangement of
ihe exhibits and in the decoration of
the rooms, have been received with
general favour, though strong criticism
has been passed on the removal from the
National Gallery in Trafalgar Square of
certain works by early English masters,
Hogarth and Reynolds more particularly,
on the ground that their transfer greatly
detracts from the prestige of the British
Collection at the premier institution.
However, we are all truly thankful to see
the " Tate " once more accessible, and
when the remaining rooms are surren-
dered by the Government and restored to
their proper function, the Gallery with its
treasures carefully selected and unbur-
dened of much of the more trivial work

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which has found its way there, will be a
truly worthy monument of British Art.

Mrs. Stabler's garden figure, The Young
Mother, reproduced on page 73, shows that
concrete is capable of being put to other
than purely utilitarian uses, and one ad-
vantage it possesses for outdoor sculpture
is its durability. 0000

Miss Doris Stacey whose etching, Study
of an Old Woman, reproduced on page 74,
won for her a British Institute Scholarship,
shows a remarkable aptitude for character
studies of this kind. She was until re-
cently a student in the etching class at the
Goldsmiths' College School of Art under
Mr. F. Marriott, the Headmaster. 0

The models of which we give illustra-
tions on page 75 have this merit—that
they are designed not to be looked at
merely, but to be handled, and they are so
well made that in the absence of any
serious catastrophe they are likely to be
still in going order long after their bright
colours have faded or worn off. The
manufacturers, Sabulite (Great Britain)
Ltd. of Ware, rightly describe them as
" working " models and the proper pro-

"bi least's ass"
woodcut by seewald

(Dorien Leiga Gallery)