Studio: international art (89.1925)

LONDON

"trees." water-colour
by paul nash

(New English Art Club. By cour-
tesy of E. h. Marsh, Esq., C.B.)

and originality and demonstrated effec-
tively the excellent quality of his accom-
plishment in this branch of art practice.
Etchings and dry-points by a number of
distinguished artists were exhibited in the
gallery of Messrs. Connell and Sons.
Among the chief contributors were Mr.
E. H. Whydale, Mr. Norman Wilkinson,
Mr. Tushingham, Mr. Henry Rushbury,'
Mr. Eyre Walker, Mr. L. R. Squirrell,
Mr. Lee Hankey, Mr. William Walcot,
and Sir D. Y. Cameron, and attractive
things came also from M. E. Be jot, Mr.
L. C. Rosenberg, Mr. J. Winkler, and Mr.
E. G. Earthrowl. a a a 0
There have been recently three ex-
hibitions of more than average merit by
women artists, Miss Hester Frood's water-
colours and etchings at Messrs. Colnaghi's
gallery, Miss Hilda Hechle's water-colours
at the St. George's Gallery, and Miss
Katharine Clausen's water-colours at the
Goupil Gallery. Miss Frood's tinted
drawings were notable for their rather
rare combination of delicacy and strength
and their admirable precision of handling,
and they gave a delightful suggestion of

spacious atmosphere and open-air effect.
Miss Hechle's mountain landscapes had
a convincing sureness of draughtsmanship
and were designed with a true sense of
decorative propriety without, however,
being unduly conventionalised and without
losing touch with nature. Miss Clausen's
work was not as consistent as it should
have been, but the best things she showed
were drawn with much decision and were
distinguished by much intelligence of
observation. At Walker's Galleries there
were, by another woman artist, Miss E.
C. Hatch, some landscapes and flower
paintings of passable quality. a t>
The pastel painting illustrated, Grand
Opera, by Mr. Littlejohns, comes from
the recent exhibition of the Pastel Society ;
it is a decorative arrangement which repre-
sents well an artist whose work shows
always a correct instinct for design and a
thorough control over the medium em-
ployed. Mr. Maresco Pearce's Verrey's
Cafe, an interior painted with much
power and with shrewd understanding of
the problems presented by the subject,
and Mr. Paul Nash's characteristic com-
position, Trees, are from the retrospective

"verrey's cafe." by
maresco pearce

(New English Art Club. By cour-
tesy of Oliver Brown, Esq.)

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