STUDIO-TALK
seeranilla" (maid of the
mountains), oil painting
by jose pinazo y martinez
(See next page)
painters on its roll of membership, and
most of these are well represented on this
occasion, Mr. Charles Shannon, Mr.
Greiffenhagen and Mr. Pryde being
amongst the few notable absentees. Mr.
Augustus John is represented by seven
paintings and a number of characteristic
drawings. In his painting called The
White Mantilla he makes effective use of
a black background. He has also lent
to the exhibition a group of curious works
by " an unknown Victorian artist "—a
true primitive whose art is not less in-
teresting because of its artlessness. There
are a few examples of " interior " por-
traiture in the show, the most conspicuous
of them being Mr. Guevara's The Author
of Modern Sculpture. a e> 0
Exhibitions of war pictures, very
numerous in 1919, were comparatively
few last year. One of the last to be held
in 1920 was a collection of sketches and
paintings by past and present students
and members of the teaching staff of the
St. Martin's School of Art, shown in
connection with the monthly Sketch Club
Exhibition, when Mr. Clausen, R.A.,
officiated as critic, and it was of special
interest as representing all the areas in
which the war was carried on—France,
Italy, Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine,
Salonica, East Africa and Russia as well
as India. Of the staff Mr. C. H. Lomax
and Mr. Stafford Leake showed drawings
of German East Africa, and Mr. Francis
Hodge work done in France. 0 0
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seeranilla" (maid of the
mountains), oil painting
by jose pinazo y martinez
(See next page)
painters on its roll of membership, and
most of these are well represented on this
occasion, Mr. Charles Shannon, Mr.
Greiffenhagen and Mr. Pryde being
amongst the few notable absentees. Mr.
Augustus John is represented by seven
paintings and a number of characteristic
drawings. In his painting called The
White Mantilla he makes effective use of
a black background. He has also lent
to the exhibition a group of curious works
by " an unknown Victorian artist "—a
true primitive whose art is not less in-
teresting because of its artlessness. There
are a few examples of " interior " por-
traiture in the show, the most conspicuous
of them being Mr. Guevara's The Author
of Modern Sculpture. a e> 0
Exhibitions of war pictures, very
numerous in 1919, were comparatively
few last year. One of the last to be held
in 1920 was a collection of sketches and
paintings by past and present students
and members of the teaching staff of the
St. Martin's School of Art, shown in
connection with the monthly Sketch Club
Exhibition, when Mr. Clausen, R.A.,
officiated as critic, and it was of special
interest as representing all the areas in
which the war was carried on—France,
Italy, Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine,
Salonica, East Africa and Russia as well
as India. Of the staff Mr. C. H. Lomax
and Mr. Stafford Leake showed drawings
of German East Africa, and Mr. Francis
Hodge work done in France. 0 0
73