Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

Percy Lancaster had two small water-
colours, Mountain Pastures and The
Solitary Shore, full of poetic meaning;
and Mr. Will C. Penn a still life, Glitter,
a piece of remarkable craftsmanship. 0
Liverpool possesses an art show and
may in time possess an art life. She is
able, energetic, materialistic, but in art
she needs strong influences to make her
worthy of her position in other respects.
It seems at present that these influences
must come from without. J. W. S.

EDINBURGH.—At a War Memorials
Exhibition held here two years ago, a
design by Mr. J. Donald Mills, F.R.I.B.A.,
of the firm of Mills & Shepherd, architects,
of Dundee, for a memorial at Tayport, was
greatly admired. The design has now been
carried out and the unveiling took place a

few weeks ago. The memorial occupies the
corner of a plot of ground to be used for
public recreation, and is 24 ft. wide and
15 ft. high, the plan being slightly curved.
The materials used are two kinds of sand-
stone with bronze gates and name panels,
and the work was executed by Edinburgh
firms. 000000

BRUSSELS.—Last July there passed
away a Belgian painter whose name
is little known in England, and whose
talent was insufficiently recognised even
here in Brussels, for during his lifetime
the Gallery - of Modern Paintings did
not possess a single specimen of his work.
But at his death Belgium lost an artist
of great talent, whose painting was as
sincere and true as was the character of
the man. Indeed, those who have known

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WAR MEMORIAL, TAYPORT. DE-
SIGNED BY J. DONALD MILLS
F.R.I.B.A. (MILLS AND SHEPHERD)