International studio (58.1916)

Studio- Talk

“and he healed them” tempera sketch for a decoration by a. e. cooper
(Leicester Galleries)


We hope in a later number to speak more fully of
this latest manifestation of the artist’s genius and
at the same time to reproduce a few of the
drawings forming the series.
At the Leicester Galleries, following upon the
Senefelder exhibition, came one composed of work
of various kinds by about a score of artists who
for the time being have relinquished the practice
of art save in the small intervals of leisure which
fall to them, and are serving their country as
officers, non-commissioned officers, and “rankers,”
in the Artists’ Rifles, an Officers’ Training Corps
to whose valuable services Viscount (then Sir John)
French paid an eloquent tribute on his departure
from France. The members of this corps who
exhibited at the Leicester Galleries are nearly all of
them men whose names are well known in the art
world, and their work as seen here testified to a high
standard of achievement. Space has obliged us to
restrict our reproductions from this show to a small
number, but among other items of interest we
should mention the etchings of Mr. Lee Hankey,

Mr. E. L. Pattison, and Mr. W. P. Robins, Mr.
Malcolm Osborne’s Loches Castle and Chinon
Castle, Mr. Gerald Ackermann’s^<rr<?yy the Common,
Mr. Montague Smyth’s Entrance to a Temple,
Yokohama, Mr. Maresco Pearce’s St. Malo, Mr.
Denys G. Wells’s Mother and Child, Mr. Mason’s
The Landlords Daughter, and Mr. Blomfield’s
House at Stansted. In another room at the same
galleries were to be seen Mr. Arthur Rackham’s
drawings in illustration of Dickens’s “ Christmas
Carol ” and a number of miscellaneous drawings,
including some landscapes showing a side of his
art less familiar than that which we encounter
in the numerous books he has illustrated. In
most of these landscapes he uses water-colour as
the principal medium of expression, whereas in his
drawings for illustration it is employed in sub-
ordination to line work, which still continues to be
the artist’s forte.
Readers of The Studio will probably recall the
name of Mr. Vladimir Polunin as that of the
designer of some attractive wooden toys which we
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