[THE FINE ART SOCIETY, 148 NEW BOND STREET.] The work
of the Graphic Society of Holland, now being shown at the galleries of the Fine Art Society, is all by contemporary artists, and comprises woodcuts, lithographs and etchings. The woodcuts form the most arresting portion of the exhibits, but perhaps this is due to the method employed, which results in stark black and white, without any gradations, giving a print which catches the eye. It would be impossible to overlook so strong a cut as M. Jussurun De Mesquita's Zebra. Two lithographs of fish, Nos. 62 and 64, by Mr. Veldheer, are Japanese in their treatment. M. Marius Bauer's etchings, especially Entry of a Pasha, M. Dykstra's Aunt, and Mr. Jan Poortenaar's Cab Horse, all deserve mention. The exhibition throughout has a distinctive character of its own. At the same gallery are a collection of large water colours by M. Giorgio de Wolff, the subjects being sun, rocks, and flowers in Dalmatia, Istria and the Dolomites. His technical skill is very considerable, and he paints in his subject with ease, and without fuss. His pictures show such precision that they almost give the impression of a coloured photograph. In his Morning Mist—Bocche di Cattaro, he gets nearer to the soul of his subject, and his garden pictures are so full of sun that they make one curse our present climate here. G. G.
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