Studio: international art (87.1924)

ROME

ROME.—An exhibition has been ar-
ranged at Walker’s Galleries in New
Bond Street, W., at the end of this month
of the work of a young Italian sculptor,
whose figure of Cain attracted attention in
a recent exhibition of the “ Associa^ione
Artistica Internationale ” of Rome. Rome
has always been the home of the sculptor's
art and has had in recent years a distin-
guished sculptor, Commendatore Adolfo
Apolloni, as her Mayor or “ Sindaco ” ;
and Riccardo Assanti has evidently felt the
attraction of her wonderful Campagna in
the choice of two of his subjects, the
Buttero (herdsman) and Pastore (shepherd).
His work is strong, simple, direct, and has
perhaps attained so far its highest level in
the male figure in his remarkable Thrower
of a Javelin, which was acquired by the King
of Italy from the last Rome “ Biennial,”
and this study of Cain, a realistic study of a
naked boy, which seems to me admirably
modelled. 0 0 0 0 0

In the same exhibition at Walker's
Galleries there will appear a series of paint-
ings in oil and water-colour, mostly of
Rome and the Campagna, by a clever pupil
of Professor Onorato Carlandi. After some
study in London, chiefly under that ex-

tl TERRACE AT AMALFI.” BY
MRS. COULSON C. FELLOWES

(Walker’s Galleries)

cellent draughtsman Mr. Borough John-
son, Mrs. Coulson Fellowes went out to
Rome in 1914, and put herself at once under
Carlandi's guidance. I know that he had—
and has—a high opinion of her talents and
promise ; but the war supervened, and she
could not return to Rome till 1919, where
she was working under the Professor at
Ostia—a favourite haunt of his—Tivoli,
and for some months made Spoleto a
centre. Much of her work to be shown in
London this spring will therefore be taken
from Rome itself, the Campagna and from
Umbria ; and in Rome this artist feels very
strongly the sense of the massive splen-
dour, the immense strength of the great
ruins of the Empire City—the impression
that comes to us when we see a space of
blue heavens between those grand columns
and figures of the arch of Septimus Severus
in the Roman Forum. But Professor
Carlandi insisted—very rightly, to my
judgment—on the value of oil work, as
training even for water-colour, and made
his pupil go back from this last medium to
study oil methods : hence a good deal of
her work which will be shown here is in
oil, but in some studies which she had done
later in water-colour the effect of the change
of medium is evident to good results, and
seems to bear out the value of oil training
for the acquerellist. 0 0 0 0

The preparations for the XIVth Inter-
national Exhibition of the City of Venice
are now advancing, and the works in the
British Section of that Exhibition, which
were on view during the month of January
in the Galleries of the Faculty of Arts
near Golden Square will, when this notice
appears, be probably already on their way
to our Pavilion in the Giardini Pubblici.
The Faculty of Arts have done us a
good turn in taking over the transport
on this occasion ; and the choice of works,
judging from those shown last January, is,
on the whole, satisfactory. One could wish
that both Algernon Talmadge and Arnesby
Brown—the latter of whom has a very good
public in Italy—were more strongly repre-
sented ; but they are both there, and with
themWilliam Walcot, Orlando Greenwood,
Ethelbert White, Archibald Barnes—whose
Mirror is a clever piece of work—and
William Nicholson, whose work will figure
strongly in this British section. 0 0

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