Studio: international art (83.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

DRAWING BY
ETIENNE DRIAN

STUDIO-TALK

(From our own Correspondents)

LONDON.—Few frequenters of art ex-
hibitions in London (and indeed any-
where) are familiar with the water-colour
landscapes of Mr. Charles Harrington, of
which we reproduce a typical example
kindly lent to us by Dr. Ridley of Croydon,
an ardent admirer of the artist's work. Mr.
Harrington is now well on in years, but
until about six years ago when some of his
drawings came into the hands of Mr.
Augustus Walker of New Bond Street,
scarcely anyone in London had even heard
of him. Then a year or two later his
drawings began to appear in the water-
colour room at the Royal Academy, and at
once elicited appreciation signified by the
familiar red label. But though we London-
ers have only now come to know the work of
this talented landscape painter, it has for
many years been known to and esteemed by
a small circle of discerning connoisseurs in
the South of England—in and around

in pen, pencil, chalk and charcoal, and so
forth. Among outstanding contributions to
this section of the exhibition are a large
collection of water colours by Mons. Leon
Bakst, mostly studies and sketches for
stage costumes, providing a veritable feast
of fascinating colour ; some vivacious pen
studies in Quixotry by Mr. Edmund J.
Sullivan ; a few masterly portrait drawings
by Mr. J. S. Sargent; a group of litho-
graphic chalk and brush drawings by
Mr. Russell Flint; an excellent nude study
in chalk by Mr. I. Cohen, and drawings in
one or other medium by MM. Drian and
Domergue, Mr. Dulac, and Mr. Vivian
Forbes ; woodcuts after Brangwyn by Mr.
Urushibara ; a Panel for a Lacquer Room
by Mr. G. Sheringham, and an attractive
pastel Street Market at Le Puy by Mr.
Davis Richter. These, with some capital
examples of sculpture by Bourdelle, De
Groux, Bartholome, Loutchansky, and
others, give distinction to the display and a
decided advantage over the Academy
exhibition, where the representation given
to mediums other than oil is always meagre.

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“ HEAD OF A GIRL.” (GOUACHE)
BY F. KATHERINE MAYER