Studio: international art (85.1923)

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, 1923

William Orpen’s contributions, too, are
conspicuous as technical exercises of
amazing power, a little too demonstrative
in manner but consummately able in
accomplishment and vigorously insistent
in characterisation. 0000
Then there are Mr. Arnesby Brown’s
landscapes—one of them. The Swing
Bridge, can fairly be accounted as the most
seriously considered transcription of nature
in the exhibition—and such notable per-
formances as Mr. Campbell Taylor’s per-
fectly understood and completely realised
Interior at Putsborough Manor, Mr. Russell
Flint’s dramatic and finely painted com-
position, The Delinquents, Mr. Melton
Fisher’s sumptuous still-life arrangement,
Peonies, Mr. Glyn Philpot’s very interesting
Little Dancer, and Miss Anna Airy’s bril-
liantly handled canvas, The Flower Shop.
Mr. A. J. Munnings shows several extra-
ordinarily skilful paintings of horses ; Mrs.
Laura Knight, a clever but rather vehement
portrait study, A Daughter of Eve ; Mr.
Talmage an excellent landscape, Morning
after Rain, Dedham Valley, and an attrac-
tive portrait, Mrs. Turner; and Mr. Clausen
a group of pastoral motives, the most
satisfying of which is, perhaps, the Gossip
on the Road. 00000
Sir David Murray still holds his place as
a landscape painter of particular charm and
distinction ; Sir H. Hughes-Stanton, in
Early Morning, Les Baux, Provence, has
adopted a severer and more deliberately
decorative manner than he usually employs;
Mr. Bertram Priestman and Mr. Oliver
Hall show characteristic things, and Mr. R.
Vicat Cole’s The Towpath Bridge, is in
many ways the strongest and most impres-
sive piece of work he has ever produced.
Important, also, are Mr. Tom Robertson’s
sunny Village on the Loire, Mr. Moffat
Lindner’s effective colour arrangement.
The Gorgeous Gloom of Evening, Mr. J. L.
Henry’s Summer Time, Mr. George Henry’s
The Quarry, Mr. Harry Watson’s animated
Autumn Morning, and the exquisitely har-
monious colour arrangement, Rain : Lake
of Annecy, by Mr. Terrick Williams. 0
To the list of paintings which help
appreciably to keep up the standard of the
exhibition must be added Mr. Spencer
Watson’s portraits, Isabel Dallas Pinkney,
and Miss Mullock, Mr. Gerald Kelly’s
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