Studio: international art (86.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

“MISCHIEF,” OIL PAINTING
BY HELEN MACKENZIE

(Royal Academy, 1923)

history. His recent article on Mr.
Reginald Bell’s work was his last published
contribution, but at the time of his death
he was preparing a paper to be read before
the Royal Society of Arts on “ The Four-
teenth Century Revolution in Glass Paint-
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Mr. Maxwell Armfield’s portrait in
tempera of The late Mrs. W. T. Smedley,
reproduced on page 47, is one of three
works by that artist in the Water-colour
Room of the Royal Academy this year.
Like her daughter, Mrs. Armfield, who
as Miss Constance Smedley founded the
Ladies' Lyceum Club, Piccadilly, in 1904,
Mrs. Smedley was an ardent supporter of
the cause of women's advancement. Two
other works from the same exhibition are
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also reproduced, supplementing those in
our last issue—Miss Helen Mackenzie's
painting, Mischief (Gallery XI.) and Mrs.
Gabriel's bronze statue, A Nymph of Pan
(Lecture Room, No. 1,511), while Mr.
Kenneth Broad’s pair of wood-cuts, both
with a distinct old-time flavour, are from
the Decorative Art Exhibition held earlier
at the Academy. With these we reproduce
one of a number of drawings by Miss
Clara Klinghoffer shown last month at the
Leicester Galleries—a very interesting
assemblage, both on account of the
vitality of her draughtsmanship and be-
cause of the variety of means employed in
its expression. 0000

The centrepiece illustrated on page 53
was presented to Sir Percy Cox at Basra