International studio (58.1916)

Studio- Talk

and public bodies on the subject of War memorials,
mementoes, and so forth. The Committee pleads
earnestly for the employment of the many able
artists in our midst, who on account of age or other
circumstances are incapable of military service, on
public work of one or other kind, and they point
with pride to the high standard of skilled talent
existing among craftsmen and craftswomen in this
country. Our pre-eminence in this respect is,
indeed, generally recognised, and yet, as the
Committee points out, our towns, while the best
organised in the world in some respects, are, in the
visual or architectural sense, the worst organised.
To remedy this national defect will be no easy
task, but we are sure that everyone who has the
best interests of the nation at heart will wish the
new Association prosperity.
The programme of exhibitions this season ap-
pears to be much the same as usual in so far as
the principal art societies are concerned, though,
as was the case last year, the number of “ one-
man ” exhibitions will be very much smaller than
in normal times. The Pastel Society and the

Senefelder Club have already held their annual
shows, and the thirty-fourth exhibition of the
Painter-Etchers, with which we deal elsewhere in
this number, has just terminated. Among the
groups which have decided not to exhibit this year
is the Women’s International Art Club, but the
committee of this organisation hope to arrange for
an exhibition of special interest in 1917. The
National Portrait Society is holding its annual
exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery, and of this
we shall say something in our next issue.
Of the exhibitions at other private galleries one
of exceptional interest was that of a collection of
drawings and etchings by the eminent Dutch artist,
Mr. Marius Bauer, at Dowdeswell Galleries, New
Bond Street. The drawings, illustrating certain
portions of the Books of Genesis, Exodus, and
Jeremiah, and executed with the pen supplemented
by wash in varying proportions, revealed a draughts-
man of extraordinary fertility of imagination and
equally remarkable power of characterisation, and
one, too, who has steeped himself in the very
spirit of the episodes selected for interpretation.

“somewhere in France” (Leicester Galleries) by e. i-iandley-read
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