Studio: international art (90.1925)

W. L. KIHN—THE NEW AUTUMN GROUP

Museums of New York City Santa Fe,
New Mexico, San Francisco, Salt Lake
City, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington,
Columbus, Ohio, and many other im-
portant art centres in the United States*
It is to be hoped that it will not be long
before the British art public will have the
opportunity of viewing a collection of his
paintings in London. 000

THE NEW AUTUMN GROUP. BY
W. GAUNT, B.A. 0000

THE u New Autumn Group " is an
association of artists, held together not
particularly by any great similarity in the
works of the various members, nor any
strongly defined and common outlook
(save that of a general progressive tendency)
but rather by the accident of proximity,
and partly also by the very variety of the
member's interests which make it, to use a
cliche, a sort of microcosm of artistic
industry. The centre is St. John's Wood.
There are twenty-one members, and their
work includes painting in oil and water-
colour, figure and landscape, sculpture,

NOOTKA INDIAN FISHING VILLAGE
NORTH-WEST COAST OF VANCOUVER
ISLAND. BY W. LANGDON KIHN

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book - illustration, miniatures, colour-
prints, stained-glass design, and so on. 0

Miss G. Jones-Parry provides some good
work in pencil and colour wash, especially
for book-illustration. She has a pleasing
sense of bright colour, and in the light
touch with which she distils out a Vic-
torian flavour and turns it to decorative
use, she follows the genre which Mr.
Albert Rutherston has so successfully
employed. Miss E. G. Lipscombe has
done some good landscapes in oil ; in
particular one would mention some studies
in the south of France. The picture of
Bruges we reproduce has a nice scale of
low colour and well-considered form.
Miss Hilda Hechle paints mountain scenery
in water- and tempera-colour, also with a
feeling for form. Miss Dora Clarke,
sculptress, is illustrated here by Schehere-
zade. One notices here as in so much
modern sculpture a great stress on the
rectangularity of forms. One feels that a
modern realisation, like that of the Chinese,
of the value of curved forms, might pro-
duce some interesting results. However,
that is by the way. Miss M. D. Cole does
delicate illustrative work, in which, though
quite admirable one would like sometimes
to see the corrective of a linear discord, as
one might say a " slower " sort of line.
Miss Lorna Burgoyne has well-executed
flower miniatures, one of the best of which
we reproduce. More masculine work is
provided by Miss V. Baber Mimpriss,
Miss W. E. B. Hardmann and Miss V. M.
Barnewall, who it may be noted here has
made a speciality of stained glass design.
It is interesting to note also that " Fish "
is a member of the group. 000

Mr. Claude Flight is one of the most
experimental members of the group, and
continually tries new methods of ex-
pression. Thus the Arc de Triomphe du
Carrousel which we reproduce in colour,
an excellent print of the impressionistic
kind, is no longer of a style quite typical of
him. He advances now deeper into the
problems of form, emphasising the solidity
of construction and a harmony of construc-
tional principle. Mr. Flight is always
interesting—but in some works he pushes
perhaps too far the abstract principle.
The abstract is better suggested than
defined, that is to say that to lose touch