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THE CLARK ART EXHIBITION
NOTES ON THE ARTISTS
The following are additional notes on the artists represented at the exhibition of pictures in the possession of Mr. E.M. Clarke, now being exhibited in Hobart:
WILLIAM BECKWITH McINNES
William B. McInnes was born at Malvern in 1889. He began his art studies at the early age of 14 at the Melbourne Gallery, where he worked first under Fred McCubbin, and afterwards under Bernard Hall. In 1912 he went to Europe and stayed for two years during which time he devoted himself almost entirely to landscape. This was new ground for young McInnes as hitherto he had been trained chiefly as a portrait painter. McInnes has a fine sense of colour and a keen eye for the essential in a landscape, and is extraordinarily dexterous in his handling. McInnes
