Studio: international art (87.1924)

LONDON.—There is in the summer
exhibition of the Royal Society of
Painters in Water-Colours a great deal of
sound and well considered work, though
perhaps the number of things which can
be accounted as more than ordinarily im-
portant is rather smaller than usual. The
most striking contribution is the figure
composition, Oceanides, by Mr. Russell
Flint and there are other works by the same
artist which deserve the sincerest appre-
ciation. Mr. W. W. Russell’s Wharves by
the Adur, and The Little Dock, exquisitely
drawn and handled with delightful delicacy.
Mr. Cecil Hunt's dramatic Silvery Day in
the Apennines, Mr. D. Y. Cameron’s
vigorous Loch Lomond, Mr. H. E. Crocket’s
Idlers, and Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton's
Mount Eboshi, Japan, are deservedly
prominent, and other notable works come
from Mr. R. W. Allan, Mr. E. T. Holding,
Mr. Oliver Hall, Mr. Moffat Lindner, and
Mr. Arthur Rackham. 0 0 0

The exhibition of the Royal Institute of
Painters in Water-Colours includes over
500 things and is on the whole agreeably
varied. It is strongest in landscapes—Sir
David Murray’s Pasturelands at Wells,
Somerset, Mr. W. Egginton’s The Exe
Marshes, Mr. Burleigh Bruhl's The Teeme
at Ludlow, Mr. Percy Lancaster’s King’s
Lynn, and the luminous Morning—Locarno,
Lago Maggiore, by Mr. Terrick Williams
are the most memorable—but among the
figure subjects there are some of exceptional
interest, notably the charming Romance, by
Mr. W. E. Webster, and the gay and ani-
mated composition. The Dance, by Mr.
James Clark. Among the contributors who
help to keep up the standard of the show

BOOKBINDING FOR H.M.
THE QUEEN’S DOLLS’ HOUSE
BY SANSGORSKI AND SUT-
CLIFFE. (ACTUAL size)

BOOKBINDING FOR H.M.

THE QUEEN'S DOLLS’ HOUSE
BY SANGOESKI AND SUT-
CLIFFE. (ACTUAL SIZE)

must be counted Mr. J. R. K. Duff, Mr.
Fred Taylor, Mr. St. George Hare, Miss
Anna Airy, Mr. Arthur Wardle, Mr. Fred
Roe, Mr. Davis Richter, and Sir William
Orpen, who is represented by a couple of
very skilful tinted drawings. 0 0

The most noteworthy canvas in the
exhibition of the Royal Society of British
Artists is The Shepherdess, by Mr. F. F.
Foottet, a picture remarkable for its in-
dividuality of manner, its great dignity
of treatment, and its admirably balanced
harmony of colour ; but others, like Mr.
Alexander Maclean’s The Hour of En-
chantment, Mr. Hely Smith's Mackrelling,
Mr. Orlando Greenwood's still life groups
The Agitator, and The White Elephant,
Mr. Burleigh Bruhl's The Sunlit Bay,
Tenby, and Mr. Solomon J. Solomon’s
portrait, The Hon. Mrs. Ewen Montagu,
claim serious attention. There are, too,
excellent water colours by Mr. H. G.
Theaker, Mr. W. T. M. Hawksworth,
Mr. E. W. Haslehust, Mr. Percy Lan-
caster, and Mr. C. Ince, a pastel, A Bend
in the River, by Mr. Littlejohns, and a
drawing, A Little Boy Asleep, by Mrs.
Granger-Taylor, which make a strong
appeal. 00000

Several smaller exhibitions with merits
well above the average have been open
during the last few weeks. Mr. R. W.
Allan’s oil paintings and water-colours, at
the Beaux Arts Gallery, summed up con-
vincingly the varieties of his practice and
showed to full advantage the sterling
qualities of his achievement. The collec-
tion he brought together did him ample
justice. Miss Rosa Wallis's water-colours.

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