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The most pleasing feature about the first exhibition of the new year members of the
Vancouver Sketch Club held on Saturday afternoon at their
Pender Street rooms and well attended, was the fact that
figure subjects were much more numerous than usual. The exhibition as a whole was
varied and, though not so ambitious in point of number of exhibits as the last show,
which was kept open for a week, there was satisfying evidence of individual development. Again Miss Margaret Wake scored in figure work with the head (in pastel) of a boy, an extremely natural study from life worthy to rank with several other interesting studies from her hand during the last year. In "The Debutante", a very happy study of a girl with flimsy draperies about the bust, Mr. Blake Hunt showed himself an artist in wet pastel, and another study from life, that of the noble and patriachial (sic) head and bust of an old man. Mrs. Gilpin exhibited the best study from life she has so far showen. (sic) Still another figure study from life which calls for special attention was Mr. John Scott's water color of a Red Cross nurse, a clean-cut, natural piece of work. The same artist in "The Open Road" was seen at his best. Two little water colors by the veteran, Mr. Tom Fripp, an "Indian Shack" and "Lulu Island", though not characteristic of most of this artist's appealing scenic work, were in his happiest vein, the soft warm coloring of the foreground, with shadowy, snow-capped peaks in the background, in the former being notably good. The most numerous exhibits were by Miss F. Terry, a new exhibitor and a decided addition to the club, her garden and pastoral scenes and bird studies from bothe (sic) Eastern Canada and British Columbia displaying a sure and attractive touch, one study, "Quail's Nest and Eggs", being a beautifully natural and finished study. Mrs. A.J. Kayall, in "End of Penticton Trail" exhibited a very charming little water colour, and Major C.B. Fowler, in "Dawn of Day, Kitsilano", has reproduced the very atmosphere of wooded cliff and winding beach. While opinions might be divided about the sky effects, Miss Maud Shearman, (sic) in "Lone Tree Island", near Savary, had contributed a large water color, colorful and yet subdued, which was a tribute to the strides which this young artist is making in her art. Mrs. Verral, of North Vancouver in a large canvas, "Roses", a mass of inflorescence in a jardinaire again achieved one of the pronounced successes of the exhibition, as Miss E.N. Maltby, also of North Vancouver, had two charming indoor studies, while a water color "Rose Study" by Mrs. F.J. Winning calls for special mention by reason of its naturalness. Again Miss Theo Adamson, in an aquatint, "An Old Mission", displayed her sure and finished touch in this class of work, and Mrs. A.M. Stephen, in the only example of modelling from life in the exhibition, a girl playing basket ball, suggested by the abandonment and vivid life of the figure, an increasingly happy faculty in this class of work. There were many other worth while exhibits, mention of which is precluded by lack of further space. |