Studio: international art (84.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

Mr. Lamorna Birch's drawing St.
Mary's Church, Eastbourne, and Mr.
Anning Bell's Little Pierre, here repro-
duced, were both in the recent exhibition
of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-
Colours. This exhibition, notwithstanding
the absence of work from some of the
Society's leading supporters, such as Mr.
Cameron, Mr. Clausen and Mr. Brangwyn,
was well up to the high level one is accus-
tomed to find in these displays. Land-
scapes usually predominate in the Old
Water-Colour Society's shows, and such
was the case on this occasion, but the
figure subjects, though relatively few,
comprised some of the most interesting
work in the exhibition—as, for instance,
Mr. Sargent's Persian Ladies, a very
delightful Mother and Child by Mr.
Charles Sims, R.A., and Mr. Munnings's
evocation of the past in Days of Yore. a

The controversy which raged eleven
years ago and has been recently revived
in " The Whistler Journal," as to the
artistic relationship of Mr. Walter Greaves
to Whistler, has been again recalled by a
recent exhibition at the Goupil Galleries
of paintings, drawings and etchings by
Mr. Greaves and his brother, but more
especially in a foreword to the catalogue,
in which Mr. William Marchant makes a
spirited defence of Mr. Greaves in reply
to statements made in the Journal. Many
of the etchings and oil paintings in this
exhibition figured in that of 1911, which
occasioned the controversy referred to,
but the main feature was a series of water-
colour views of old nooks and corners of
Chelsea, executed jointly by the two
brothers. As conscientious transcripts of
Chelsea as it was half-a-century ago, these
drawings are of unique importance and one