Studio: international art (88.1924)

"sleeping dog." pencil
drawing by eileen hood

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and one of them, at least, Cloth Hall and of delicate and sensitive draughtsmanship ;
Cathedral—Ypres, 1919, had much charm it was decidedly the best thing in the

exhibition and it showed the artist's
capacities to much advantage. a e>
Other recent shows include one of
paintings and drawings by Mr. Ivon W.
Brooks at the St. George's Gallery, a
collection of pictures by a Dutch painter,
Christiaan Pieter Snyders, at the Arlington
Gallery, and at this same gallery a series
of oil paintings and water-colours by the
late Miss Henrietta Irvine. Mr. Brooks
must be counted as an exponent of
modernist conventions, but his work is too
vague and tentative to have, at present,
much authority. The best things he
exhibited were a couple of still-life studies,
Spring Flowers and Nasturtiums, and his
Winter Landscape had some truth of effect.
The pictures by Mr. Snyders were honest
and serious efforts, robustly handled, but
generally they lacked subtlety of treat-
ment ; Miss Irvine's works were painted
with a good deal of freedom and with, at
times, some charm of suggestion ; but, on
the whole, they were of only moderate
importance, a a a a a
The reproduction in colour given here
of Miss Dorothy Hutton's poster, Windsor
Castle—one of the "Historic London "series
poster by dorothy hutton —claims attention as a worthy example of
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