[THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF OIL PAINTERS, 195 . PICCADILLY.] WHETHER one
will find _the—forty-fifth exhibition of the Institute of Oil Painters interesting or 'Mit, will depend on whether one's predilection in art matters turns to the right or the left. This exhibition is almost entirely unmodem—or should One say old fashioned 9-7-3ret 'throughout its three hundred and eighty-seven e3ihibits the level of performance iagood, and there is much that is interesting. We of the most important,. works come from the brush of Sir , The pose and drawing in his English .Nude are "very .good indeed, and the light effects are skilfully arranged,, though the yieture, as a whole, is low in tone. In:Ids Sunlight he has set himself to paint asfull a subject as phssible. The,s=iiit]ight 'streams in .through a venetian blind on -Co a: semi-nude model standing in a marble. tiled hull, and the Whale-is reflected in a large mirror on one side of the picture. -It is a clever 'piece of work. Full Sunimer, which. is Miss Anna Airy's contribution, is stiongly painted,. but it suffers 'somewhat from a want of contrast. Mr. Hesketh Hubbard has 'caught that steely hard distinctness which' evening light so often brings, and his Bickton Mill with its reflections of mill and sk3i in the mill
pool Strikes true. The smile' must be said of Mi. 'Alexander - . . . , .
Jamieson's Snow and Flood—Weston Turcille- ; it makes you feel cold to look at it. The subject here is Skilfully Chosen and the painting of the half nieltect snoW and slush is most realistic. Sir John Laver? S Lady in' the' Green Coat is char- acteristic, and one feels that the artist enjoyed painting the Coat. As an example Of simplified design and:effect obtained with the Mini-Intuit of effort Mr. Lee-Hankey''S .Frshening Breeze may be quoted. Mr. Jack Yeats' The Ferry, Kinsale, is hung so high that it is impossible to see it. Among. other pictures which should be noted are Mr. Padwiek'S Ha-stings Beach, Miss- DOra Meeson's Villefranehe fronz' the Sea, Mr. Park's Cornish Countryside; Mr.- Spencer Watson's -The Cabbage Patch, and Mr. Davis Richter's Field Poppies. The exhibition wiuich remains open till mid-December shOuild be Visited, even if by doing so one runs the risk of being dubbed old-'fashioned.
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