Art
Tim R.W.S., 5A PALL MAIL EAST.
There is sufficient 'variety in the 190th exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours to suit all tastes, and the standard of painting is what one expects from this society. Landscapes predominate, and most of the best work of the exhibition falls under this heading, but at the same time there are other subjects. We have Mr. Russell Flint forsaking his usual style in The Belated Question, in the form of a delicate book illustration on linen. Mrs. Laura Knight and Mr. Arthur Raekham are typically represented in Actors, Scene Shifters and Electricians and Under the Beech Tree, and Miss Turner gives us a gay bunch of Spring Flowers. There are six landscapes by Sir George Clausen, of which The Elm Trees is the strongest, while Mr. Lamorna Birch's Drift Valley is the best of his eight contributions. In Austwick Fells Sir Charles Holmes gains his effect with the minimum of painting. Other pictures which help towards the success of this exhibition are Mr. Reginald Smith's The Sheep Fold, Mr. Oliver Hall's Rugby Moor, and St. Paul du Var, Sunset, by the President, Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton,' to mention but a few. It is sufficient to add that this is a charming exhibition, -which no one should fail to go
and see. * *
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