STUDIO-TALK

Britannia—all big alike in scale and in force
and animation. Numerous other artists
whose work is familiar at the Painter-
Etchers ' exhibitions were also represented
—notably Mr. Gerald Brockhurst, Mr.
Malcolm Osborne, Mr. George Soper, Mr.
Fred Richards, Mr. A. Bentley, Mr. W. P.
Robins, and Mr. A. Hartley—but, as one of
the chief objects of the Society is to afford
facilities of exhibition to artists who do not
already possess them, it was especially in-
teresting to see a liberal representation of
work by members thus circumstanced.
Among these were some whose activities
have hitherto been chiefly exercised in
some other medium than etching, as, for
example, Mr. Harold Nelson, Mr. Warwick
Reynolds, and Mr. F. E. Wiles, the last
named contributingone of the comparatively
small number of etched portraits in the ex-
hibition. The lithographs formed quite a
small group, and meagre, too, was
the display of woodcuts and lino-cuts.

The assemblage of drawings, comprising
as it did examples of almost every
variety of method and medium, was made
the more interesting by tinted work,
which went far to relieve the mono-
tony incidental to a collection of black and
white work. It is impossible to mention
all the good things in this section, but,
besides a characteristic charcoal drawing
by the President, mention should be made
of Mr. Russell Flint's Basilica of Constan-
tine, Rome (pencil), Mr. Spurrier's Ernest
Cole (chalk), Dorothea Landau's gold-
point Study and pencil portrait of F.
Emanuel, Esq., Sir Reginald Blomfield's
Coutances from the West, Mrs. Borough
Johnson's The Tragic Moment, the pen
drawings by Mr. Sydney R. Jones,
Mr. E. H. New, Mr. Herbert Cole, Mr.
F. L. Griggs and Mr. John Austen, Mr.
Wilton Williams's tinted wash drawing
Geraldine, Mr. Wallcousins's Approach to
the Severn, and drawings of one or other

THE APPROACH TO THE SEVERN ”
BLACK AND WHITE DRAWING
BY ERNEST WALLCOUSINS

(Society of Graphic Art)

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