Studio: international art (85.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

Apropos of Mr. Edward Withnall, of
whose paintings we reproduce three ex-
amples, Mr. E. S. Lumsden, A.R.S.A.,
writes : “ About twenty years ago Withnall
was the senior member of a group at Read-
ing which included William Giles, A. W.
Seaby (both well known to readers of The
Studio), and myself. He was then, as now,
the keen experimenter, the student, the
thinker. The new generation at Reading
is fortunate in still claiming him as a
member of its club. Then, as now, he
painted that which was to his hand ; rarely
leaving the Thames Valley, but interpret-
ing its landscape with more and more in-
sight and vision, creating that indefinable
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while on his way to his home in Essex ;
and eight days later his fellow Academician,
Mr. Seymour Lucas, died in Southwold
Hospital from the effects of a fall. Mr.
Fisher, who was an American by birth,
was over 80 and Mr. Lucas 73. Mr. Glyn
Philpot, who was elected Associate of the
Academy in 1915 when he was not much
over 30, was promoted to the rank of
Academician at an assembly held on
April 26th, when Mr. Wilfred de Glehn
and Mr. George Spencer Watson, painters,
were elected Associates. On the following
day, Mr. L. Campbell Taylor, painter,
and Mr. Curtis Green, architect, were
elected Associates. 0000