Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

"SELF-PORTRAIT." ETCHING
BY LEON UNDERWOOD

(Chcnil Galleries, Chelsea)

a long and strenuous spell of camouflage
designing and painting at the front. With
the Peace came a return to study, and last
year, as second in the competition for
the Prix de Rome, Mr. Underwood was
awarded the £100 premium. Recendy
he has taken up etching again, but, as his
Self-Portrait shows, with his own con-
ception of the art. The open linear treat-
ment of the landscape background gives
evidence that he values line, but the tonal
modelling of the face and hand with a
kind of stippling, somewhat reminiscent
of Van Dyck's practice, is artistically
blended with a full-toned use of line. We

shall watch Mr. Underwood's career as a
painter-etcher with great interest, a 0
More in the traditional manner of the
etcher's art is the serene and well-
composed landscape, The Road to the
Downs, by Mr. Jan Daum, a clever young
Dutchman now domiciled in England,
who received his art training at South
Kensington, and gained a sound crafts-
manship in etching from the teaching of
Sir Frank Short and Miss Constance Pott.
Mr. Daum has a keen pictorial sympathy
with the country-side and the agricultural
life, and we think The Road to the Downs
promises developments of artistic interest.

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