Studio: international art (90.1925)

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE

and can be commended not only for its art, and the show was considered unique

correct adjustment as a design, but also among provincial exhibitions. The works

for its richness of tone and strength of were arranged in chronological order, thus

effect. 0 a 0 a a a conveying to students and art lovers some

knowledge of the wide range of Turner's

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. — The art, and giving the exhibition an artistic

Laing Art Gallery has fully main- and educational value. The drawings in

tained the reputation which it has earned the early section in pencil and India ink

of placing before the public of Newcastle- with washes of blue and brown, formed

upon-Tyne, loan exhibitions worthy of an important feature. There were also

the best traditions in art. Over seventy several drawings by John Cozens, and

exhibitions have been held at this gallery, above them drawings of the same subjects

each illustrating in turn some important by Turner, from the collection of Asa

phase or period of art. One of the most Lingard, Esq. In these drawings the

interesting of the exhibitions, which has wonderful mastery in the use of washes

just closed, was the Turner Loan Collec- of colour, the sense of light and space and

tion which occupied two of the large air, and his transformation of the com-

galleries. The Curator (Mr. C. Bernard position foreshadow his rise to the highest

Stevenson) secured the loan of over pinnacle of landscape art. Following in

ioo important examples, covering prac- sequence were examples showing Turner's

tically every phase and period of Turner's early feeling towards colour. The in-

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" DUNSTANBOROUGH." WASH DRAW-
ING BY J. M. W. TURNER, R.A.

(Laing Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Lent by the trustees of the Tate Gaily.