Studio: international art (83.1922)

a protection against the wind. The
architects were Oswald P. Milne and Paul
Phipps, FF.R.I.B.A., of London, who
were also responsible for the design and
carrying out of the garden. 0 0

In a recent issue of the journal. of the
Royal Institute of British Architects it
is announced that a sum of £200 has been
placed in the hands of the President of
the Institute by an anonymous donor for
the purpose of instituting a competition
for a business building, facing on an
ordinary London street, in which "colour"
(of a permanent nature) would be the
dominant feature. The competition is
open to all members of the profession, and
it is hoped that there will be a strong
response by students of the architectural
schools in London and elsewhere. The
assessors are Sir Edwin Lutyens, R.A., Mr.
Collcutt (Past President of the Institute),
Professor G. Moira and Mr. William Wal-
cot, and designs are due by May 1st. 0

STUDIO-TALK.

(From our own Correspondents.)

LONDON. — Three vacancies in the
ranks of the Royal Academicians were
filled up at a General Assembly held early
last month by the promotion to full
membership of Mr. Henry Alfred Pegram,
sculptor,Mr.Maurice Greiffenhagen,paint-
ter, and Mr. Robert Anning Bell, painter.
The first two are alumni of the Royal
Academy Schools, and all three have won
medals and other distinctions abroad as well
as at home. Two works by Mr. Pegram
have been purchased under the Chantrey
Bequest—Ignis Fatuus (1889) and Sibylla
Faticida from the Academy Exhibition of
1904. Mr, Greiffenhagen's best known work
and the one which when first exhibited over
thirty years ago securely established his
reputation as a decorative painter, is The
Idyll, which was acquired by the Walker
Art Gallery, Liverpool. For some fifteen

“ SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE, VENICE ”
PAINTING BY JOSEPH SOUTHALL

(Alpine Club Gallery)

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