Studio: international art (89.1925)

ED INBURGH—MUNICH

CUSHION CENTRE BY
NORA PATERSON

(Modern Embroideries
Society, Edinburgh)

Louie Chart, Mary Alison, Nora Paterson,
Helen Gorrie, also antique and modern
" Lacis," by Mrs. Simpson and her
pupils, and that of other members includes
Meta Cattanach, Elisabeth Sym, and
Dorothy Angus. E. A. T.

MODERN MASTERS OF ETCHING.

NUMBER 5 of this increasingly popular
series, now ready, deals with the work
of Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E. Sir
Frank is essentially the interpreter of
landscape, especially landscape that skirts
the sea or some tidal river. His etching
is distinguished by exquisite reticence and
poetic serenity, and he has always kept
to the pure tradition of the art, as exem-
plified by Rembrandt. Throughout his
long career at South Kensington, Sir
Frank Short has held this tradition as a
sacred trust, confiding it with his inspiring
influence to the two generations of etchers
he has trained at this famous school.

MUNICH.—In the formative artistic
atmosphere of Munich, there has
been living and working for a number of
years a Swedish sculptor, still young, who
seems likely to make his name known and
popular far beyond the limits of the
German art centre—Knut Anderson. a
When Anderson arrived in Munich, his
work still showed the influence of the
Swedish architect Ferdinand Buberg ; but
very soon that of Joseph Wackerles, in
whose studio he worked and by whom he
was entrusted especially with the work of
decorative wood-carving was added, and
also the whole exceedingly congenial
artistic environment of Munich made
itself felt. But just as before Anderson
did not become entirely dependent upon
the teachings of Buberg the influence of
the daily intercourse with Wackerles did
not now make too great an impression on
him, notwithstanding the former's strongly
marked artistic personality. He was able

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