Studio: international art (86.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

English Art Club was, on the whole, a
little disappointing, as there were in
it rather less interesting works than usual
and rather more freakish experiments of an
unprofitable type. Mr. Wilson Steer’s deli-
cate atmospheric study, The Weather-Gall,
Mr. Collins Baker's decorative landscape.
The Solent, Mr. R. Schwabe’s well-con-
ceived Altar Piece for a Chapel of St.
Francis, Mrs. Margaret Gere's pleasantly
restrained Kaltwasser Glacier, and the dig-
nified composition Derwentwater Mountains
by Sir C. J. Holmes were the best of the
oil paintings, though among other pictures
of sound quality could be counted Mr. M.
Pearce’s Crossing the Street, Miss Fairlie
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ALTAR-PIECE FOR A
CHAPEL OF ST. FRANCIS
BY RANDOLPH SCHWABE

(New English Art Club, 1923)

Harmar’s Sarson Farm, the clever Wolver-
hampton Fair by Mr. J. E. Nicholls, and
the portrait of Geoffrey Blackwell, Esq., by
Mr. Wilson Steer. In the section devoted
to water-colours and drawings the propor-
tion of good things was larger—Miss H. R.
Lock’s The Castle Barn, Amberley, Mr.
Ian Strang’s Repaving Oxford Street, Pro-
fessor Fred Brown’s Isleworth, Mr, Wilson
Steer’s delightful notes. View from Penpole
Point, and Towards Avonmouth, Mr. Muir-
head Bone’s St. Andrews, and the admir-
able drawing The Winner by Sir W. Orpen
particularly deserve to be remembered—
but here too an undue amount of space was
given up to immature performances. 0