Art
THE NEW BURLINGTON GALLERIES. THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB.1 THE New English Art Club are holding their seventy-ninth exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, and it will remain open till May 8rd. It is a better show than last year's, though there is no very exceptionally brilliant picture.
In the water colour section the fascination which Spain has for Mr. Muirhead Bone is very evident in his three black and whites. Two are of Salamanca, and its pig fair, and the other of the Walls of Pamplona, and all are masterly drawings. Mr. Ian Strang too has gone to Spain, but his etching of the Cathedral, Segovia is rather too hard and cold. Mr. Charles Cundall's wanderings have taken him from Gloucestershire to Connemara, and he shows a well-put- together picture of The Promenade, Cheltenham. Colyton, Evening, by Mr. Cheston, with its fine sunset, Cornish Coast by Miss McCrossan, and Restaurant Scene by Diana Butler, are other pleasant things in this room. In the large gallery Mr. Tom Nash's large picture Mary anointing the feet of Jesus Christ will attract immediate attention. It may not suit everybody's taste, but no one can deny that it is seriously thought out. It is well grouped, and, although the whole has a slightly flat effect, nevertheless it is a striking work. Miss E. Bland's The Castle, Bormes is very good. The whole is nicely balanced and the distance is particularly well treated. Miss Bland gets a sparkle into her paints. The bed-making scene Any Morning, one of Miss Barker's subjects for the Rome Scholar- ship, is another picture which catches the eye, as also does Miss Mason's The Day Nursery. The colour and light in this latter are attractively painted. In this interesting exhibition one can only mention Miss Harmar's St. Nazaire, Lucien Pissaro's delicate View of Youlgrave, and the two Portrait Studies, one by Professor Brown and the other by Mrs. Fisher Prout. A visitor will find much besides those mentioned.
G. G.
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