THE R.I., 195, Piccanrux.
The visitor to the Royal Water-colour Institute's exhibition will need a certain amount of courage, as he will find himself faced with some seven hundred paintings, if we include the miniatures. At first glance he will also be in doubt if the majority of the works are in water-colour. The subjects are almost as numerous as the pictures themselves. In the North Gallery Mr. Webster's An Idle Moment, Mr. Beaumont's At Home, and Sir William Orpen's charming Breeze are the best. In the West Gallery, Mr. Gordon Forsyth's The Care- taker of Notre Dame, Caudebec, and Mr. Richter's Sunlight and Shadow, Le Puy, are both good pictures. Mr. Ackermann'S' New Bridge, Dartmoor, is a pleasant open airy landscape, and•Loading, by Mr. Shoesmith, a poster-like work, is painted with a ship-lover's care, but the ship has been given no name- Mr. Moser's Lady at her Bureau is too subdued in tone to impress. In the large South Gallery Miss Hawksley follows up her Cat Burglar with a similar type of picture, entitled Fancy Dress Optional. Miss Anna Airy's Venetian Blind would have been more successful had it contained only one
figure.
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