Studio: international art (89.1925)

He transfigures everything he touches to
his decorative schemes. The obvious and
recondite, the simple and the complex,
are all equally grist to his mill. When,
quite at the beginning of his career, he
painted a set of panels on white silk where,
with staggering assurance, he mingled
motifs from every school of decoration and
even the stock episodes of Christmas
supplements, lovers in eighteenth century
postchaises, and the rest of it, the result
was exquisite and completely harmonious
in effect. By the same native talent in
" The Duenna," he has taken motifs from
Goya, from Chinese decoration, and from
eighteenth century prints. The scene
called " A Convent in Seville " is largely
painted from the Dutch garden in his own
house at Hampstead. But the result is
unity, because one artistic concept has
controlled the whole. 000
In a word " The Duenna," as seen at
Hammersmith, is a thing of delight and
beauty, because it is designed from start
to finish as a single coherent work of
decorative art. R. H. Wilenski.

[The Editor desires to acknowledge the courtesy
of Messrs. Constable and Co. in kindly allowing him
to reproduce these illustrations, which are to appear
in their forthcoming edition of " The Duenna."] 0

AN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE COM-
PETITION.

IN our March issue will appear full par-
ticulars of a very interesting competi-
tion, open to any and all of our readers,
who have ideas on the relationship between
manufacturers and artists—how both may
be benefited by a closer interdependence.
Mr. Frank Brangwyn, R.A., has kindly
consented to act as adjudicator, and the
main factor he will consider in judging the
entries will be the practicality and origin-
ality of the ideas put forward; the method
of expression will be a minor consideration,
so that all will have an equal chance of
success. There will be a first prize of £25,
a second of £10, and three other prizes of
£5 each. 00000
In order to assist competitors, our
monthly " Lay Figure " article will, for
the next few months deal with various
aspects of the subject. 000

THE ETCHINGS OF ARTHUR W.
HEINTZELMAN. BY MALCOLM C.
SALAMAN 0 0000

INCREASINGLY the prints of
1 American etchers are finding welcome
acceptance in Great Britain. Among the
latest acquisitions in the Print Rooms of
the British Museum and the Victoria and
Albert some etchings and dry-points of
distinguished quality introduce Mr. Arthur
W. Heintzelman, a young artist whose
accomplishment on the copper-plate is
already worthy of consideration for the
collector's portfolio. In his own country
it has won wide and generous recognition,
while in Paris, where he has lived and
worked during the past three years as both
painter and etcher, French critical opinion
has acknowledged his talent. Now, under
the sponsorship of the house of Colnaghi,
Mr. Heintzelman makes his appeal to
British collectors, who are responding with
appreciation. 00000
His art on canvas I have not yet seen,
but it is never a painter's conception
that he brings to the copper-plate, it
is always that of an authentic etcher.
From the first—that is, from his earliest

"THE POET." ETCHING BY
ARTHUR W. HEINTZELMAN

(Published by Messrs. P. &
D. Colnaghi & Co.)

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