Studio- Talk

HOUSE AT MAPPERLEY PARK, NOTTINGHAM

B. HARLOW BUTTERS, ARCHITECT

The whole of the external woodwork is in oak,
that used for the posts and beams forming the
porch and verandah being old wood supplied by
the owner. Oak has also been employed internally
for panelling the hall and lounge, while the other
reception rooms and the principal bedrooms have
been treated in white wood. The small inset plan
reproduced with the perspective sketch shows the
accommodation on the ground floor. On the
floor above there are six bedrooms, linen closets,
a boxroom and bathroom.

STUDIO-TALK

(From Our Own Correspondents.)

LONDON.—Mr. Clausen’s recent exhibition
at the Leicester Galleries, to which we
briefly referred in advance when repro-
ducing some characteristic works included
therein, represented his prolonged contest
and many triumphs in a form of art where no
perfect achievement comes easily or by receipt,
where the difficulties are new ones on every occa-
sion, and new to art as well as to the painter.
The problem of sunlight is more difficult in a
climate like our own than in southern countries,
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and the comparative greyness of the brightest day
in England baffles the luminists. There are
moments when even Mr. Clausen, with his passion
for light, is almost betrayed and his art in danger
of losing the qualities of intimate knowledge, the
sincere realism, that restrains—but this on the
rarest occasions, and his exhibition was a series of
extraordinary triumphs at just those points where
so many of his contemporaries compromise or
evade the only logical but greatly difficult issues
of their encounter with bright light. Under no
circumstances does the grasp of form of so sensitive
a draughtsman as Mr. Clausen become obscured.
With outline melting everywhere, the form remains
within the effect, shapely, definite and quite matter-
of-fact. Things prosaic in themselves are lyrically
treated, but not without license. In the case of
such a painter nothing could be more welcome to
the student of modern painting than such a collec-
tion of his works as that brought together, for only
thus could an estimate be taken of his achieve-
ments and the diversity of his talents meet with
full appreciation. _

Simultaneously with the exhibition of Mr.
Clausen’s paintings Mr. Francis James exhibited a
collection of his flower-pieces at the Leicester