Studio: international art (87.1924)

LONDON.—Of the host of art exhi-
bitions held in London during the
last few weeks of the year, a considerable
proportion could fairly be dismissed as
worthy of little attention—there are, in-
deed, too many people at the present time
whose craving for publicity is scarcely
justified by the quality of the work which
they have to offer. But out of the tangle
of shows it is possible to pick some which
deserve to be remembered as really in-
teresting gatherings of competent pro-
ductions. The Winter Exhibition at the
Grosvenor Galleries, for instance, included
much that represented adequately artists
of unquestionable capacity ; there were in
it paintings like The White Canoe, by Mr.
A. J. Munnings; The Garden of St.
Cloud and Notre Dame, Paris, by Mr. C. E.
Cundall; A Norfolk Landscape, by Mr.
Arnesby Brown; Carpenter’s Shop, by
Sir C. J. Holmes ; On the Thames Embank-
ment, by Mr. Algernon Newton; The
Harbour, Stockholm, by Mr. Muirhead
Bone ; and Arran Peaks, by Mr. D. Y.
Cameron, which claimed the sincerest
appreciation, and there were other notable
things by such prominent painters as Sir
W. Orpen, Mr. Glyn Philpot, Mr. Gerald
Kelly, Mr. Connard and Mr.W. Nicholson.

Mr. Edmond Brock’s show of portraits
and landscapes, at the Alpine Club Gallery,
was also of more than average importance.
He is a painter with a satisfying sense of
character and sound technical methods,
and he bore well the test of a collected ex-
hibition of some fifty of his works. Mr.
E. J. Detmold, too, had a one-man show,
at the Arlington Gallery, in which he
brought together exquisite nature studies
and imaginative fantasies which illustrated
both the strength and variety of his practice;
and Mr. H. Van der Weyden, at the Beaux
Arts Gallery, made a similar bid for
attention with a series of paintings in oil
and water-colour. The vigorous direct-
ness of his handling, the freshness and
gaiety of his colour, and the individuality
of his style gave an air of distinction to his
exhibition and marked him as an artist of
unusual ability. a a a a
The Society of Wood Engravers occu-
pied the St. George’s Gallery during
December, and by the exhibition it
arranged there made very evident the
reality of the revival of the art of wood
engraving in this country. Much sound
work appeared in the show, and the con-
tributions of Mr. Ethelbert White, Mr.
Sydney Lee, Mr. Neel Rooke, Mr. Lucien

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BY SIR C. J, HOLMES

(Grosvenor Galleries)

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