MISS MYRTLE LEE'S PAINTINGS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 688, 13 December 1909, Page 4

MISS MYRTLE LEE'S PAINTINGS.

A PRIVATE VIEW. -A&orias Tof delightfid ' water /.colours by 'Miss Myrtle Leo is'now on -now in M Qiegor VVriglit'iS rga'lobJ-noiil Lnmbton Quay. There aro just forty-eight of them—viaws takenin Eome, ricardy, and England, chiefly. Mn England— >nd,iwhile ; theyare: unequal Tin execution, overy: one' is interesting. Miss Lee's drawing is. l good, ! and! she has' developed • very, much since she went Homo to study some years ago;'. There' is .nothing- scamped or untidy /about .'her' work,'.it ■is all .delicately and very carefully dqne.Yand-bne isjnot more impressed: with her quick.eye for an effcct than with the jireciMn ..with .which".-she .commits it^to*.paper. - All her'pictures'aM really'piotorial and; essentially, companionable, and: 6he (has (the' art of conveying to the beholder her own senso of charm. There are one or two little bits of street scenes' in ', foggy London that, strike the observer as most. -because Miss Lee has "known how. to jjiit .into, them, as into her Other work, (.a'j certain '■■■ poetry and ■ suggestiyeness. ■ Sug- ! gwtiveness" is : ierliaps ■ the ;.keyn6 to : of : her; iWork,; (though she; also often gives- rauch more: than :a-!at(ggestion. : >;;i;" ;;r. ; 's A . ;r..Th'e' r ,best' thing' in the, little'cdllectioiii'is -thb .picture .entitled "Picardy," which shims a half- ; reaped field, a rpw. of. Lombardy poplars ; at ■the' far end,- the .reapers' in the" middle /distance, land-m ; the foregronnd: a.''wide/sunlit path;', the'; simplest composition, and a very, charming one. '-Another;of a market in ?icardy is admirably, done. : ."St.t Peter's, 'Eome/'i is a "little • pic turo; taken froni; the; colonnade - oppo/sitei'Sti' -Peter's,; a beyorid. 'threo great'! pillars, one Goes','tho dome of.the great clidrch rising' against the "bine: sky. The Nelson Monument is not ; so' successful, ' for -the.'sky, behind ;the figuro.is-, streaked with pinkish ' clouds ? that give a :.stagey. effect. > Eome, a rather huge title .for; suon a littla"- glimpso of the 'city, shows the'corner ,of ,a"garden,;dart: : grMii.trees rising against ti. : deep.ly blue sky, and- beyond the wall, low- down; ■'. are the roofs . of. ithe i city; "Belvoir Castlo from tho Gardin" shows the castle', drenched in.' hot sunshine, and' nearer at hand ; the.'cool . dark : sbade of .'the,'garden ■where; green - of,; the tree's, i is relieved .. by a dull splas-h of crimson,- low .on :the, ground,, and 1 , aiinass. of ".pale ; blue iflowers. "Malvern,"- a -delightful l glimpso of.an English village, : . shows -a! .country ..road with a house .on one . side and trees on the : other, and - beyond : the house, ■ -'the road flipping (.steeply to the.''village,with fields- and.;hills beyond;; The distance in tin's is very good. The picture of - tho Soman Catholic -Cathedral 1 of Weatminster . was much admired.; It is a : viow of the interior, and the tochniquo is excellent, though one takes. exception to: the, chairs, which almost float'.'upwards ■ inCthe'; foreground."^.• There .:,are many other pictures i.which. : claim notice: the admirablypaintedv:intenor'v; of a. blacksmith's' shop,-, tho fairyrlike v view,,of'■ Edinburgh, the : : buildings seen throutrh a. blue haze, -the delightful little sketch of "Tho Appian .Way," the strikinivbut not altogether, successful picture of the Chelsea Embankment, and the poetical "View: from the Castle.""' Miss Leo gave; a private: view of; her paintings'.! on: Saturday afternoon, ' and'. - the guests who came to see her-work were all much interested and charmed. -'' :.. ', Miss Lee woro a princess robe of white : muslin,; with': lace insertion, the bodicft having a; vest of. honiton lace. With this,she ; wore, a mole-coloured hat, with pink and blue flowers. Mrs. Leo .woro' a' costumo of brown silk, with hit to'match; and the Misses Cora and Leda Leo wore white musUn frocks,, with .black hats; llrs. ;Kirk , s cpstnme was of, cloth trimmed with oriental, embroidery,'-and 'hor mole-coloured hat vras trimmed, with plumes, of tho same shade; Mrs. Jackson word a bluo;and pink flowered muslin empire frock with icrystal ! trimminc;, and a black .hat; Miss Barniooat, grey..) silk trimmed .with '(black : bands,' and n ' black hat;., Miss M'Lenn, ' white ■ embroidered coat and-skirt, and ; mole-coloured;, hat with ; -pale bluo wings; Mrs. Eichraond. 'groyicoliohnb, (vnd black .hat, with laco scarf. Among many othbrs' present were: Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson, the Misses Eichmond.: Mrs. Field. Mr. Joynt, Mrs. and. Miss .Humphries, Miss Sibyl Johnson, and Miss Lawson. "