Studio: international art (87.1924)

LONDON

were admirable in their technical quality
and their sincere regard for sane tradition.
At the St. George's Gallery the Society of
Print Makers held its first exhibition, in
which were included many examples of
•different kinds of engraved work—from
this show comes the lithograph. Bank
Holiday : The Swings, by Mr. Randolph
Schwabe, which is reproduced here—and
at the Goupil Gallery Mr. Mark Gertler
exhibited a large oil painting, The Coster
Family on Hampstead Heath, and a number
of drawings, a a 0 a a
Mr. Herbert J. Finn's water-colours,
at the gallery of Messrs. Bromhead, Cutts
and Co., deserve to be noted for their
freshness of colour and subtlety of atmos-
pheric effect, and for their soundness of
style ; among them was a series of subjects
on the London and North Eastern Railway
which proved attractively how well material
apparently unpromising can be turned to
pictorial account by an artist of capacity.
In the galleries of the Fine Art Society
there were shows of paintings, drawings
and etchings by Mr. Lewis Baumer, and
of oil paintings, water-colours and litho-
graphs by Mr. Laurence Irving. Mr.
Baumer's work was, as usual, distin-
guished by daintiness of fancy and elegance
of draughtsmanship and by a pleasant
refinement of manner ; Mr. Irving's had
much promise and a considerable degree
of accomplishment. His water-colours were
well drawn and broadly handled, but his
oil paintings were rather conventional in
treatment and a little too heavy in tone. 0
A comprehensive collection of etchings
by modern masters was also exhibited by
the Fine Art Society; among them were
characteristic examples by Zorn, Whistler,
Seymour Haden, Sir Frank Short, Mr. Lee
Hankey, Mr. Brangwyn, Mr. D. Y.
Cameron, Mr. Muirhead Bone, and an
important group of subjects by Mr. R. W.
Allan. Mr. J. R. Gauld's water-colours,
at Mr. W. B. Paterson's gallery, made a
certain appeal by their honesty of method
and unaffected frankness of style and
showed a correct grasp of essentials ; Mr.
W. H. Walker's fantasies. Desire and
Destiny, at Walker's Galleries, recalled his
previous successes with a similar type of
material: he has a quaint fancy and a good
deal of technical skill. 000
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“A SLEEPER.” ETCH-
ING BY VERNON HILL

Mr. F. H. Haagensen’s etching. Home-
ward Bound, is worthy of note as a piece
of vigorous expression in which the effect
desired is obtained by simple means ; and
Mr. Vernon Hill’s etchings illustrate ade-
quately the methods of an artist who
follows to its logical conclusion the con-
vention he has adopted and does efficiently
what he intended to do. The miniature by