Studio: international art (86.1923)

LONDON

our attention. Some of these owe a good
deal of their sound technique to training
in Europe, from which Bernard Hall and
Max Meldrum have introduced formulas
of rather doubtful value. 0 0 0

The great development of the graphic
arts which has taken place in Australia
incontestably had its origin in the standard
of good illustration set by the Sydney
Bulletin, which fostered the genius of Phil
May and David Low. In this section, the
quality of the work shown was uniformly
high, the woodblocks of Margaret Preston
striking a modern note which was absent
from the sound etchings and drawings of
Sydney Ure Smith, Napier Waller, Lloyd
Rees, Gayfield Shaw, Victor Cobb, Henry
Fullwood and Lionel Lindsay. Even the
technique of Norman Lindsay, strongly
individual as it is, is based almost entirely
upon the older tradition. To say this is by
no means to underrate either the originality
or the versatility of an artist who is reminis-
cent of Rubens in the best of his composi-
tions and of Hogarth and Phil May in his
character studies (of which, by a regrettable
error in judgment, none were included in
the recent exhibition). 0 0 0

"WRECKAGE.” PEN DRAW-
ING BY F. ADLINGTON

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"WAYFARING.” PEN DRAW-
ING BY F. ADLINGTON

LONDON.—In its autumn exhibition
the Royal Society of British Artists has,
contrary to its usual custom, filled most of its
wall space with water-colours, and has
assigned only two of its smaller rooms to oil
paintings. This change, however, is not
unwelcome, for the general average of the
water-colours shown is undeniably high
and individual examples of notable merit
are sufficiently numerous. The impressive
colour arrangements by Mr. F. F. Foottet,
the excellent landscapes by Mr. Percy
Lancaster, Mr. W. E. Willats, Mr. H. G.
Theaker, Mr. C. E. Hannaford and Mr.
Leonard Richmond, the soundly handled
portrait study by Mr. Solomon J. Solomon,
and the able contributions of Mr. Little-
johns, Mr. R. E. Higgins, Mr. W. T. M.
Hawksworth, Mr. Stafford Leake and Mr.
H. G. Hoyland, are of particular interest;
and there are oil paintings by Mr. Gilbert
Solomon, Mr. Algernon Talmage, Mr.
Francis Black and Miss Rosalie Emslie,
which add appreciably to the authority of
the exhibition. 0000