Studio: international art (83.1922)

THE ROYAL GLASGOW INSTITUTE EXHIBITION

PORTRAIT OF A LAEY IN BLACK”
OIL PAINTING BY F. C. B. CADELL

THE ROYAL GLASGOW INSTITUTE
EXHIBITION.

THE 6oth Annual Exhibition of the
Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine
Arts, held during the closing months of the
old year, contained, as usual, a carefully
selected collection of oil paintings, sculp-
ture, water-colour and other drawings, and
a few prints, gathered from many sources
and displayed with excellent judgment in
the M'Lellan Galleries in Sauchiehall
Street, the seven hundred and forty odd
exhibits representing the work of between
four and five hundred artists, all, with a
few exceptions, belonging to Great

Britain. The collection was interestingly
varied and reached on the whole a high
level of technical achievement, a a
Portraiture was again a strong feature,
and among exhibits in this class were not
a few of special interest as dominated by
this or that colour, as, for instance, two
superb studies in brown by Sir James
Guthrie ; one in grey by Mr. George
Henry, R.A. ; two in black by Mr.
Somerville and Mr. Cadell respectively ;
a study in yellow by Miss N. N. Gray/and
Sir John Lavery's Cardinal Logue with
its scarlet keynote. Mr. Alison's portrait
of Mr. Whitelaw Hamilton in his studio
was a capital example of interior por-

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