Studio: international art (83.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

ERNEST COLE.” DRAWING
BY STEVEN SPURRIER

of Mr. Ernest Cole, the sculptor, which
we reproduce on this page, was one among
numerous interesting drawings at the
exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art
referred to in our last issue. Mr. Cole's
name came prominently before the public
recently in connection with a dispute
between himself and the London County
Council in regard to his sculpture for the
new County Hall. 0000
The same exhibition contained Mr. E.
H. New's pen drawing of Leicester's
Hospital, Warwick, reproduced on page
165. The drawing was transferred thence
to the Cotswold Gallery, to form part of
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an exhibition comprising more than thirty
of Mr. New's drawings in pen and pencil,
including, besides several of the Oxford
Colleges, and the panoramic drawings of
London and Florence which have appeared
on a much reduced scale in these pages,
seme dainty little studies of landscape
and architecture, and two or three draw-
ings of Cambridge which, let us hope, are
the forerunners of a series like that of the
Oxford Colleges. 0000
In selecting as the theme for his colour
woodcut reproduced opposite one of the
most exciting incidents in the strenuous
“ Rugger " game, Mr. John Platt possibly