Studio: international art (81.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

TRIPTYCH IN SILVER, IVORY, AND
ENAMEL SET WITH FIRE OPALS,
CARBUNCLES, AND MOONSTONES.
BY ARTHUR NEVILL KIRK

STUDIO-TALK.

(From our own Correspondents).

LONDON. — Mr. A. Nevill Kirk's
triptych illustrated above figured in
a recent exhibition at the London County-
Council Central School of Arts and Crafts,
of which he is a student, and it is shown
closed as well as open, as the back con-
tains some excellent niello work. Some
examples of domestic silver ware by this
young artist-craftsman are given in the
current issue of The Studio Year Book of
Applied Art, where also will be found
other work by students of the same
institution. 00000
By the death of Mr. Marcus Stone in
March the Royal Academy, of which he
had become a Senior Member on com-
pleting his eightieth year early in 1920, lost

a painter whose name was perhaps more
widely known than any other British
painter of modern times, including Mr.
Leader. The larger part of his long career
was devoted to telling love stories on canvas
and in untold thousands of middle-class
houses in Britain at home and overseas will
be found engravings made from these pic-
tures. The superior person may sneer at
picture-making of this kind, but the
painter could at least console himself with
the reflection that he had given pleasure to
many, and, perhaps in an indirect way,
helped to maintain the stability of our
social fabric by encouraging domestic
virtues. And there can be no doubt that
such as it was he did his work well. 0
The name of Monsieur Gabriel Mourey,
Conservateur des Palais Nationaux in
France, who is now in London delivering a

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