Studio: international art (86.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

CURTAIN FOR THE MUNICIPAL THEATRE
LYONS. DESIGNED BY JAULMES

(Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1922;
see page 58)

Canada has evoked in both a deeper
creative faculty than had come out in them
in England, and of Mr. Lismer it has made
a thoroughly native interpreter of land-
scape. He came over to Canada in 1911,
became head of the Halifax School of Art in
1916, and Vice-Principal of the Ontario
College of Art, Toronto, in 1919. At
Halifax he was employed in the service of
the Canadian War Records and greatly
enriched the home contribution to that
comprehensive and important collection
with his many studies, some oils and many
lithographs, of harbour and convoy scenes
in and about Halifax. In landscape, in
which he has worked longer, he sketches

with a remarkable zest and spontaneity
which he retains in large measure in his
studio pictures. His feeling is for move-
ment and character, as in the logging scenes
he has exhibited lately. He is probably the
most refreshingly lyrical of our painters.

Like several other Canadian artists, Mr.
J. E. H. Macdonald has found his training
in the commercial shops of Toronto. The
fact that men of this calibre are produced
by the shops would suggest that there is
more to be said for such training than is
sometimes admitted. Mr. Macdonald
spent some three years in London, where he
was chiefly occupied as a designer at the
Carlton Studios. Since returning to

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