Studio: international art (83.1922)

REVIEWS

WOODCUT BY C, A.
WILKINSON

(“A Book of Wood-
cuts,” Methuen & Co.)

and general get-up it does credit to those
responsible for it. Mr. Young, whose work
is well known to frequenters of London
exhibitions—notably those of the British
artists—is claimed as an Australian on the
score of some 25 years' domicile ** down
under." Thither he went after leaving
Cambridge to take up an appointment as
teacher, and there he remained till 1912,
with the exception of a brief course of
study at the Herkomer School, Bushey,
and a few months with Pryde and Nicholson
who at that time were, as the Beggarstaffe
Brothers, leading the poster revival in
England. Mr. Young's art, as evidenced by
his exhibition pictures, the most important
of which are represented in this volume,
appears to owe little if anything to extrane-
ous influences, but to have come to fruition
by a slow process of development along
independent lines in a milieu conducive to
freedom of expression. Mr. J. F. Bruce
contributes an account of Mr. Young's
career, and also a special paper on his
water-colours. 0000
Art Prices Current, 1915-1916. Edited
by G. Ingram Smyth. (London : The Art
Trade Journal.) 63s. net.—Transactions in
the art ** market " play so large a part in
modern life that a printed record like that
given in Art Prices Current has become in-
dispensable for reference, and the resump-
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tion of the series after the long interruption
due to the war will be warmly greeted by all
who have occasion to consult the record.
The sales of which the results are given in
this, the ninth volume, took place at
Christie’s, Sotheby's, and Puttick and
Simpson’s in the autumn of 1915 and
spring of 1916, a season more notable per-
haps for the dispersal of various collections
of etchings and engravings than for the sale
of masterpieces of painting. The arrange-
ment followed is as before—first, the sales
in chronological order with the usual par-
ticulars, followed by separate alphabetical
indices of drawings, pictures, and engrav-
ings, the last in two sections, arranged ac-
cording to artists and engravers respectively.

Nouvelle Anatomie Artistique : II Corns
superieur — La Femme. By Dr. Paul

Richer. (Paris : Librairie Plon.)

Abundantly illustrated with schematic
diagrams and half-tone reproductions of
drawings made by the author from the
living model, this treatise of Dr. Richer of
the French Institute deals more thoroughly
with the morphological characteristics of
the female than most text-books of artistic
anatomy, and the numerous comparisons
made with the male form enhance its value
as a manual for the student. The author,
besides being a professor, is a practising
sculptor of repute. 0000

A Book of Wood-cuts. By C. A.
Wilkinson. (London : Methuen.) 21s.
net. The vogue of the wood-cut is
increasing here, as it is in France and
elsewhere, and Mr. Wilkinson is one among
numerous young artists who have tried
their hand at it. He prefers that the ten
examples here published in a small edition
should be regarded as sketches rather than
as “ finished " designs, but some of them
certainly are not the worse for that. He
possesses a marked sense of decoration and
is especially fond of ships, which have
served him as motives for mural decora-
tions on many occasions. 000

IMPORTANT POSTER COMPETI-
TION. 00000

On page vii of our advertisements this
month will be found an announcement by
the Great Western Railway Company of
an important poster competition open to
all artists. 00000