Studio: international art (80.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

"RED AND BLACK." OIL PAINTING
BY J. STANLEY CURSITERj

often relieved with one or may be two or . was aroused, an educative process begun,
three well chosen tints which impart an and to-day the annual exhibition of the
agreeable decorative quality and gaiety to Royal Glasgow Institute creates wide-
his prints. 00000 spread interest and exercises an influence
As some compensation for the diminu- of incalculable effect at a time when every
tion of exhibition facilities caused by refining force should be most actively
the closing of more than one gallery exerted to counteract the coarsening ten-
in the West End there is to be re- dencies that have been let loose. 0 0
corded the opening of a new gallery at The visitor to the M'Lellan Galleries
Knightsbridge, (Pavilion Road). It is does not go far without having his
called the Collector's Gallery and its first attention arrested. He is pulled up sud-
exhibition, now being held, consists of a denly before one of those Guthrie
collection of water-colours and pictures creations that make the work even of
by Mr. Albert Goodwin, R.W.S. 0 brilliant contemporaries appear to lack

some essential quality, as one of them puts

GLASGOW.—Some forty years ago the it. The Lady Hermione Stuart, lent by the
" Glasgow School of Painters " be- Earl of Moray, is more than the inspired
came an established fact, public opinion portrait of a young girl standing in a grey

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