Studio: international art (82.1921)

CAPTAIN J. AUDLEY HARVEY'S COLLECTION

" june " by arnesby
brown, r.a.*

Mr. Cameron, indeed, is one of the
salient personalities in modern art because,
with the power to observe and select, he
combines a rare capacity to convert to
the purposes of his art just that which best
suits the intention formed beforehand in
his mind. 0000a
These three pictures, among the many
fine things in Captain Harvey's collection,
deserve to be particularly considered,
because each in its very different way is
a masterpiece and each represents an
important school of practice. Moreover,
the fact that they are to be found together
in the same house is an eloquent testimony
to the catholic taste of the collector—
clear evidence that he recognises, as the

true collector should, how wide are the
possibilities of artistic expression and how
many are the forms in which art of the
highest rank can be presented. He has
many besides which show the spirit in
which he has turned his opportunities to
account—pictures which have been well
chosen because they are not the common-
places of accomplished artists but examples
of each man's work in a moment of real
inspiration. 00000
For instance, Mr. Richard Jack's Whither?
is certainly one of the most interesting
pictures he has ever painted, and one of

* A larger reproduction in colour of this painting
is included in No. 3 of the "Modern Painting"
Folios published by The Studio.

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