Studio: international art (87.1924)

DUBLIN—BELFAST

DUBLIN.—The President of the Execu-
tive Council has recently nominated
Senator Dr. W. B. Yeats, Sir John Lavery,
R.A., R.S.A., R.H.A., and Mr. Alec
Martin of “ Christie's ” to be Governors
and Guardians of the National Gallery of
Ireland. I do not know if Sir John is
accounted a citizen of the Free State. He
is an Irishman, and proud of his national-
ity ; but he hails from that part of Ireland
which is now called Northern Ireland, and
his permanent home is in England. His
appointment, however, is welcomed as amost
useful and proper one. The appointment
of Mr. Alec Martin is also widely approved
of, for though Mr. Martin is an English-
man and the employee of the great firm of
Christie, Manson & Woods, he has for long
been well known in Ireland as perhaps the
greatest friend of the late Sir Hugh Lane,
who was accustomed to rely on his judg-
ment, and who enlisted his sympathies in
all his projects for the furtherance of Irish
art interests. 0 a a a 0
Senator Yeats is the son of one distin-
guished painter and the brother of another ;
but his own reputation has been won
solely in the domain of letters. It is thought
that he owes his new appointment to the
prestige he enjoys as the latest Nobel
prize-man for literature. 000
At their last meeting the Governors and
Guardians of the Gallery purchased a
bronze bust of the late General Michael
Collins, to whom, more than to any other
man, the Irish Free State owes its existence.
This bust, here illustrated, is undoubtedly
the best of the many portraits of General
Collins. It is by Mr. F. Doyle Jones and
was exhibited at both the Royal Academy
and the Royal Hibernian Academy last
year. T. B.

BELFAST. —Mr. E. M. O’Rourke
Dickey is a citizen of Northern Ireland,
but finds subjects for his art as far abroad
as Italy. His characteristic picture here
illustrated is of Lough Altan, in Donegal.
Donegal is comprised in the Province of
Ulster, properly so-called, but is portion
of the Free State territory, and has
recently been rechristened “ Tirconaill.”
Mr. Dickey has a predilection for the
mountain tops at dawn, and most of his
best pictures illustrate vast panoramas

“MICHAEL COLLINS ”
BY F. DOYLE JONES

seen from a height. He is still a young man,
and the development of his talent has been
both rapid and uninterrupted. His ad-
mirers look for great things from him in
the near future and are not likely to be
disappointed. T, B.

JOSEF ISRAELS

I 'HE STUDIO Special Spring Number

-L this year will be entitled “ Josef
Israels,” and will give a review of the life
and work of this eminent Jewish artist,
from the pen of one who was his personal
friend and who is well known as an art
critic of distinction—Dr. Max Eisler,
Professor of Dutch Art. Last January
was celebrated the centenary of Israels,
whose name, along with those of James
Maris, Mauve and Bosboom, is associated
with the renascence of modern Dutch art,
so that from every point of view a book
on this artist is particularly opportune.
The number will contain many illustra-
tions in colour and black and white, and
will, it is believed, form a suitable tribute
to the genius of Israels. 000

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