Studio: international art (81.1921)

ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION

" THE COAST ROAD." BY
ARNESBY BROWN, R.A.

(Copyright reserved for the
artist by Walter Judd, Ltd.)

appointment with Mr. Connard's land-
scapes, especially this Suffolk Pastoral, in
which he has not succeeded in realising, by-
means of these violent and lively tones, the
harmony after which he was evidently
striving. But it matters little : Mr. Con-
nard is an excellent painter—of that there
can be no doubt whatsoever. 0 0
More or less at random, I noted sundry
bits of painting, full of charm and savour :
A Land Girl, by Mrs. Mia Arnesby Brown,
with a highly successful contre-jour effect;
The Lass of Mile End, by Miss Doris C.
Zinkeisen, the little figure of an East
London girl out for a walk, strangely
striking in her attire of blues and greys
and pinks, so charmingly and so subtly
blended ; The Green Sun Blind, by Mr.
James Durden, an excellent piece of

intimite most happily executed; The
Green Dress, by Miss Bertha Blunt, who
evidently has made a close study of the
rare and refined method of Vermeer of
Delft. 00000a
I have kept to the end of my notes the
exhibits sent by Mr. Alfred J. Munnings,
The Grey Cob, Black and White, and The
Green Waggon, who reveals himself an
artist of the first order. Mr. Munnings
has a truly remarkable knowledge of the
horse ; furthermore, he is an artist en-
dowed with very high gifts. He has the
faculty of giving to each thing its right
value and character, and of bringing out
the mysterious charm residing in the
humblest aspects of nature and of life—a
faculty possessed by all the really great
painters. Gabriel Mourey.

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