Studio: international art (82.1921)

THE COTSWOLD GALLERY

LANDSCAPE STUDY IN LEAD
PENCIL. BY F. L. GRIGGS

Mr. Charles M. Gere, Miss Margaret
Gere, Mr. Frederick L. Griggs, Mr.
Edmund H. New, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Payne, and Mr. Paul Woodroffe, are by no
means unfamiliar to the artistic world.
Most of us have seen and admired their
creations before now ; but very few—cer-
tainly not the present writer—have hitherto
realized the deep seriousness, the reserve of
strength, the sober and enduring charm of
their work. Objects of beauty give one
another a definite assistance when juxta-
posed ; and the sight of works like Pro-
fessor Rothenstein's Blackdown : Morning,
Mr. Griggs' Cotswold Sunset and Land-
scape Study, Mr. Gere's Valsolda and
Welsh Valley, Mr. Payne's Wild Ducks, and
the delightful drawings of Mr. Gaskin and
Mr. New hanging side by side opened our
eyes to the subtle differences of tempera-
ment and creative endowment which
distinguish each of these artists from his
fellows, and yet convinced us more than
ever of the deep underlying sincerity which
unites them all. 0000

To exhibit such works in galleries luxu-
riant with oppressive antique furniture
would be to banish all possibility of har-
monious appreciation. They required to be
viewed in precisely those conditions which
thoughtful and sensitive men and women
would desire for their own everyday sur-

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roundings. Hence the organizers of the
Cotswold Gallery have been logically im-
pelled to entrust the fabrication of their
furniture to one of the finest of the Cots-
wold craftsmen, a pupil and associate of the
late Mr. E. W. Gimson. The furniture in
question is all of English walnut, a wood
which in the hands of so masterly a crafts-
man reveals quite unexpected beauties.
Some few specimens of Mr. Harold
Stabler's pottery and a number of really
exquisite figures and bronzes of Mrs.
Phoebe Stabler complete the appointments
of the Gallery. R. H. Allerton.

BRITISH WATER-COLOUR PAINT-
ING OF TO-DAY. 000

THE Special Winter Number of The
Studio to be published this month,
will be devoted to the work of some of the
most prominent British water-colourists
who, while upholding the great traditions
of the art in this country, reveal in their
drawings freshness and originality in pic-
torial conception and expression. They
have discovered for themselves new possi-
bilities in technique and treatment, and in
the exploitation of the medium they have
gained knowledge of its wonderful poten-
tialities. There will be twenty-four plates
in facsimile colours. 0000