Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

" THE HAT SHOP." WATER-
COLOUR BY MABEL LAYNG

(International Society)

mician at the same time as Sir William
Orpen, still appears among the Associates
as " R.A. Elect " through non-fulfilment
of this essential condition, nor has he
contributed to any of the Academy
Exhibitions since his election, much to
the regret of all who remember with
admiration the works from his brush
which gave distinction to the exhibition

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The display which the International
Society has brought together at the
Grafton Galleries—after the lapse of more
than a year since its last exhibition at the
Grosvenor—approaches more nearly to
the pre-war standard of the Society than
any collection it has shown since the
Spring of 1914, not only in the general
quality of the work exhibited but also in
the greater abundance of foreign con-
tributions, which during the war diminished
of necessity almost to vanishing point.

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Sir William Orpen, the new President, is
liberally represented by works eloquent
of his genius as a painter and draughtsman,
and he is ably supported by others who,
with him, have helped to uphold the
prestige of the Society in years gone by.
Mr. James Pryde, Vice-President of the
Society, sends a characteristic composition,
The Arch, and among other British artists
whose works gives strength to the display
are the late President, Mr. W. Strang,
R.A., Mr. Glyn Philpot, A.R.A., Mr.
Charles Ricketts, Mr. Oliver Hall, A.R.A.,
Mr. Gerald Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. Knight,
Sir John Lavery, Mr. Philip Connard
A.R.A., Mr. Ben Nicholson, Mr. E. A.
Walton, Mr. Lamorna Birch, and Mr.
Ambrose McEvoy. The foreign con-
tributions include works by MM. Manet,
Claude Monet, A. Besnard, Antoine Vollon
Degas, Forain and Renoir, Mary Cassatt,
Cecilia Beaux, and several other Americans,