Art
THE FINE Alms SOCIETY, 148 NEW Bohn STREET.
ONE of the chief aims of the modern artist is to have a new message to deliver, or a new method of delivering it. The work of Jacques Nam at the Fine Arts Gallery will at once convince the visitor that here, at least, is a new method. Mr. Nam's work is well known in Paris, but this, I believe, is his first exhibition in this country. Though he employs both oil and water-colour for his work, his chief claim to novelty lies in his lacquer designs. Starting with a fully lacquered surface, he carves out his picture in a shallow design and colours it, leaving the lacquered surface to form the major effects. His knowledge of animal form is wide, and he depicts animals, whether at rest or in motion, with consummate ease. The Pour Seasons in lacquer, all represented by cats in appro- priate surroundings, are the best of his pictures, Autumn, with its lengthening shadows, being particularly charming. Siamese Cat with Tulips, a small lacquer, shows how the method may be used for colour contrast. His pictures have
the faithfulness and observation of a true animal lover; and his exhibition well deserves a visit.
At the same gallery Mr. Garnet Wolseley is showing water- colours of Sussex. These are divided into two parts : firstly, his illustrations, chiefly architectural, for Viscountess Wolse- ley's book, Sussex in the Past ; and secondly, Sussex land- scapes. Of the former St. Mary's, Bramber, and Ancient House at Bignor, stand out. All are painted with a delicate but firm touch, and make a bright and pleasant collection.
ARLINGTON GALLERY, 22 OLD BOND STREET.
Miss Alice Fowler, Miss Noltenius, and Miss Lilian Richard- son are showing water-colours of flowers and landscapes at the Arlington Gallery. Between them they are responsible for a hundred and seventeen pictures, to say nothing of other sketches in portfolios. As their style of painting and the size of their pictures are more or less the same, there is a sense of monotony when viewed as a whole, but the work is of a good average grade. Miss Fowler has the firmest touch and a good sense of colour which is well seen in her Golden Autumn and Winter Sunlight. Her St. Michael's Mount in a duller key is also pleasant. Miss Richardson's designs, as her The Parlour and Carrots for Sale, are clever, and Miss Noltenius is at her best with flower subjects.
THE REDFERN GALLERY, 27 OLD BOND STREET.
Mr. George Charlton's pictures at the Redfern Gallery resemble colour prints, his Donkey Rides so much so that one might be forgiven for mistaking it for one at first sight. His favourite subject is crowds, the larger the better, and his pictures are therefore of semi-exciting incidents, for instance, The Motor Accident and The Fallen Horse. These crowds contain the same grotesque figures one meets in prints, but, while keeping on the grotesque side, Mr. Charlton neva steps over to the gross. His delightful drawing is at its best in Chichester Town Hall and The Monarch. His oil paintings are not so effective, but his one pastel, A Circus, of course full of people, is as pleasing as anything in the show. Though having no objection to crowds, we feel that Mr. Charlton is rather overdoing it when he shows in No. 41 the launching of no less than three lifeboats, of the National Lifeboat variety,
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