Studio: international art (80.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

" BULL FIGHT—THE BANDERILLEROS "
WATER-COLOUR BY W. RUSSELL
FLINT, R.W.S.

frock at the foot of a brown oaken staircase, red, and yellow being mixed dexterously
with shadowy recesses in a panelled hall in a veritable tonal tonic, and Red and
for background ; it is the essence of a Black, by Mr. Stanley Cursiter, a con-
personality, presented with the artistry of templative study of rare placidity. Mr.
genius, with most apparent ease, yet in -Robert Hope, A.R.S.A., has a congenial
reality the result of consummate concern, of subject in The Golden Apple. The in-
technical skill. Other notable portraitists terest here centres in the lady with auburn
represented are Mr. W. Somerville Shanks, hair, so statuesquely represented by the
in a masterly clerical study ; Mr. William artist at this year's Royal Scottish Academy
Findlay, by a graceful pose in young girl- Exhibition. a 0 a a a
hood ; Mr. Howard Somerville by Eileen, A dominating exhibit, in one of the big
a Japanese study against opaque back- galleries, is a remarkable nude study by
ground, with dexterously painted drapery ; Mr. William Nicholson, Carlina, recom-
Mr. Maurice Greiffenhagen, and Mr. D. mended for purchase by the Glasgow Art
Forrester Wilson, equally expert in reality Galleries Committee. It is remarkable that
and imagery; Messrs. David Alison, Glasgow should have been years behind
Andrew Law, J. B. Anderson, and Harold Aberdeen in public appreciation of this
Knight, who all send solid achievements, talented artist's work. Mention must be

Among the figure studies two works are made of A Gingo Ring in the Sea, by Mr.

opposingly attractive. — The Valley of Gemmell Hutchison, R.S.A., a quintette

Melting Snow, by Mr. D. Forrester Wilson, of exuberant maidens gambolling in the

ablaze with brilliant colour, green, blue, foamy surf. In Spilled Milk, Mr. George

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