Studio: international art (85.1923)

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, 1923

restrained and closely studied canvases,
and the portraits by Mr. Melton Fisher,
which have real distinction of style and
grace of manner. With them must be
reckoned The Wounded. Amazon, by Mr.
C. H. Shannon, the brilliant studies of
Cornish subjects by Mr. Stanhope Forbes,
whose work this year is particularly attrac-
tive, the dainty Papillons by Mr. W. E.
Webster, the well painted study, The Park
Keeper, by Mr. F. Wiles, the portraits
by Sir W. Llewellyn, Mr. Solomon J.
Solomon, Mr. Glazebrook, Mr. E. Patry,
Mr. Harold Speed, and the late Sir J. J,
Shannon, and other works by Mr. Harry
Morley, Mr. James Clark, Miss H.
Mackenzie, Mr. W. W. Russell, and Mr.
Richard Jack—all of whom add something
of value to the sum total of the year's art.

In the water-colour room, the most
notable items are Sir H. Hughes-Stanton’s
landscape, Avignon, looking on to Villeneuve,
Mr. Russell Flint’s Barbara's Beach, Mrs.
Granger-Taylor’s admirable pastel, Katie,
Mr. St. George Hare’s dignified design,
Pilate's Wife, Mr. Tuke’s Shipping in
Harbour, Mr. C. A. Hunt’s powerful Rain
in Glencoe, Mr. Moffat Lindner’s The
Giudecca, Venice, Mr. E. Sheppard's
Carnival, Mr. L. M. Ward's The Chalk
Cliffs of Ballard Down, Mr. Russell
Alexander’s The Footbridge and A Road-
side Inn, Miss L. Blatherwick's Honeysuckle
and the Bee, Mr. Lamorna Birch’s Old
History, Mr. James Clark’s delicately
handled composition, The Embarcation,
Mr. Maxwell Armfield’s The Scarlet Squir-
rel and The late Mrs. W. T. Smedley, Mr.
Mukul Dey’s Sakuntala's Farewell to the
Trees and Flowers of her Home, Mrs. Averil
Burleigh’s Golden Hours, and Mr. Nico
Jungman’s A Dutch Fisherman. a a

In the black and white room, Mr. Ian
Strang’s Broadway Tower, Mr. Alfred
Hartley’s aquatint, Landing Place, Lake of
Como, Mr. E. J. Sullivan’s Melancholy,
Mr. Norman Hirst’s mezzotint, Clayton
Mills, Mr. Urushibara’s wood-block, Ponte
S. Paternina, Mr. George Belcher’s etch-
ing and aquatint James de Rothschild, Esq.,
Mr. Gerald Brockhurst’s etching By the
Window and pencil drawing, Mr. A. W.
Turnbull's etching The Glory of St. Paul's
which was reproduced in a recent issue of
this magazine, and the drawings by Mrs.

FIGURE ON HOYLAKE
WAR MEMORIAL. BY
C. SARGEANT JAGGER

(Photo Paul Laib)

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