Studio: international art (80.1920)

STUDIO-TALK teresting as illustrating a quite exceptional

{From our own Correspondent). P??336, of *is m3Ster's fu II is an

oil sketch painted direct from nature

LONDON.—Though some little time during his second sketching tour in that

may elapse before the whole of the county in the summer of 1813, and,

Tate Gallery is reopened to the public, according to Mr. A. J. Finberg, it is one

owing to the large amount of redecoration of the very few sketches of the kind which

now being carried out, the rooms at present Turner ever made, for as a rule all his

accessible contain ample material for the work direct from nature was done with

student of British art to revel in. Two the pencil and without colour. The

of the larger rooms, consecrated to the circumstances which induced him to

immortal genius of Turner, are ablaze depart on this occasion from his habitual

with the glorious emanations of his practice of sketching only in pencil have

palette; these contain most of the paint- been described by the late Sir Charles

ings transferred from the National Gallery, Eastlake. While Turner was staying at

but ere long two smaller rooms, hung with Plymouth he was generally accompanied

a goodly array of his water-colours and on his tours by a local artist, Mr. Ambrose

pencil sketches, will be thrown open, a Johns, of Plymouth. To induce Turner

Our frontispiece this month is in- to work in oils Mr. Johns " fitted up a

" PORTLAND RACE, EBB TIDE." AQUA-
TINT BY BERTRAM BUCHANAN

{Bromhead, Cutts & Co.—see page 155)

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