The art exhibition at the B. W. A. headquarters, 9 Kiukiang Road, is largely being conducted for the purpose of exhibiting the works of Mr. Jud Madsen, the Danish artist who is in China to make sketches of Chinese life for the London "Graphic." It also, however, has afforded an excellent opportunity for the exhibiting of the works of various local artists, and it would indeed be 2 mistake for anyone who is able to visit this exhibition to miss doing so.
The pictures shown Ly Mr. Madsen are all but one charcoal sketches, which were done while the artist was attached to General Wrangel's staff in southern Russia as special The characteristic of these sketches, most. quickly perceived, is their strength and vigour while at the same time the artist has conveyed to the evea manifestation of that weakness ngth which is the pathos of Russia. Two excellent sketches of General Wrangel are shown, one of them being a group of three men bent over a map, in which he is the central figure. There are sketches of Russian troops, soldiers kissing the cross as a blessing before going to war, Russian prisoners, including several women, and_ sentinels on lonely watch. Mr. Madsen works in many fields of art so much 80 that he might be said to dissipate his energies to the detriment of his chance for great distinction. It however, seem to be a more t course to follow and one more richly productive of appreciation." Only one oil picture is hung by this artist and that is a large canvas of a Danish landscape-—the solitary figure of a man in the foreground, a blind man who is drinking in through his other senses, the spirit of the scene,
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