Studio: international art (90.1925)

DUBLIN

DUBLIN.—The success of The Dublin
Salon/' an exhibition of modern art,
organised by Mr. Crampton Walker, has
caused no little discussion in Dublin art-
circles. Single-handed, he produced a
show which, in the opinion of many,
surpasses in merit and interest most of
the recent exhibitions of the Royal
Hibernian Academy. In a small hall he
displayed admirably no fewer than 300
pictures by some 130 different artists, and
he succeeded in negotiating the sale of a
surprising number of these works. It is
hoped that his "Dublin Salon" will become
an annual fixture, if only for the stimu-
lating effect it must have upon our
lethargic Academy. 000
The two public galleries of Dublin
have recently hung a number of important
acquisitions. The National Gallery has
just acquired, by presentation from Mr.
E. V. Huxtable, The Pier at Hastings, a
very charming and characteristic work of
the late Walter Osborne, R.H.A.; and,
by purchase, Garrick between Tragedy and
Comedy, a Portrait Group of Two Children,
both by William Hickey, one of the most

accomplished of the brilliant group of
Irish eighteenth-century painters, and The
Ferry, by Matthew James Lawless, the
precocious follower of the pre-Raphaelites.
The latter picture, here illustrated, is
regarded as the painter's masterpiece and,
together with a few fine drawings repro-
duced in " Once a Week," and other
magazines of the 'sixties shows, in spite
of a somewhat juvenile sentiment, what a
brilliant colourist and draughtsman he
had become before his premature death.

The pictures bequeathed to the State
by the late Mr. Edward Martyn, now
hung in the Dublin Municipal Gallery of
Modern Art, include interesting examples
of Manet, Corot and Degas. By the
courtesy of the curator of the gallery,
one of the fascinating pastels by Degas is
here reproduced. a 0 a a

Miss Letitia Mary Hamilton's " one-
woman" show, "The Bogs of Queen's
County," which was open during February
and March, represented this competent
painter at her best—and her best is very
good indeed. a a a 0

T. B.

"THE FERR Y." B Y
MATTHEW JAMES LAWLESS

National Gallery of Ireland)

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