Studio: international art (89.1925)

MELBOURNE.—The present annual
exhibition of the Australian Artists'
Association is probably the finest in quality
of any exhibition in recent years.

Portraits by W. B. Mclnnes, notably
those of Miss Neville Collins and of
Professor Sir Baldwin Spencer, fairly
dominated the show. Mclnnes is achiev-
ing for himself a very fine place in Aus-
tralian art history. Mr. George Bell, the
president, showed fine work in a similar
vein. Mr. W. D. Knox and Mr. Victor
Zelman showed fine landscape work, full
of the peculiar colour quality found in
Australian scenes. Miss A. M. E. Bale
excels in her flower painting—exquisite
work with all the dainty, fresh charm that
pertains rightly to this class of work. Her
portraits rather lacked this quality. H. B.
Herbert and M. J. McNally showed the
usual fine water-colour work with which
their names are associated. 000

" MELBOURNE." BY LOUIS MCCUBBIN

The Archibald prise of £500 has for
the fourth year in succession been won
by Mr. W. B. Mclnnes with the portrait
of Miss Neville Collins. a a a

This prize is annually awarded to the
best portrait painted during the current
year by an Australian painter—a condition
made by the donor, the late J. F. Archi-
bald, a former editor of the Sydney
" Bulletin." There are usually about a
score of entries. 0000

J.S.

Our other illustration is from a show
of works by Mr. Louis McCubbin, which
attracted considerable attention in Mel-
bourne last year. Among the paintings
exhibited by Mr. McCubbin was a large
composition (twenty feet long) of The
Valley of the Somme, August 8th,
1918, now in the Australian War
Museum. 00000

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