International studio (59.1916)

Studio-Talk

young artists are now engaged in an infinitely
sterner competition, and therefore have no chance
of participating in competitions of this sort, it would
have been better perhaps to have postponed them
till the end of the War, when the conditions in
every respect would be more favourable.
Mr. Will Dyson’s exhibition of cartoons at the
Chenil Gallery, entitled “ The German View,”
revealed an artist who is hardly rivalled on tech-
nical grounds either by Raemaekers or by the Italian
artists whose work has been shown in London.
But the impression received from the exhibition is
that preoccupation with style and regard for artistic
beauty mean more to Mr. Dyson than his subject.
He is at his best when he represents not the
Prussian but the victims of the Prussian system,
even in Germany. His art is of an intellectual
rather than an emotional cast, and he does not
convince us that the cartoon is the natural province
of his genius.

We greatly regretted to see in one of the casualty
lists published early last month the name of
Henry Samuel Teed, Director of the Whitechapel
Art Gallery and Member of the Royal Society of
British Artists, who was killed while organising
resistance to a German attack on July 25. Mr.
Teed received a commission in the Berkshire

Hohenzollern Redoubt last autumn. He was 27
years of age.
BRIGHTON.—We give here reproductions-
of a dry-point and a charcoal drawing
by Miss Stella Langdale, a Brighton
artist whose work is to be seen not only
at local exhibitions but at some of the leading
London shows, such as those of the International
Society, the Senefelder Club, etc. In the various
forms of graphic art which she practises Miss-
Langdale shows due regard for the scope and
limitations of her medium.

The summer exhibition at the Public Art Gallery
consisted of the collection of modern pictures-
of the Simpkin Bequest to the town, and of a
loan collection of portraits of the eighteenth-
century English School. The bequest includes
important works by W. J. Muller, David Cox,
Sidney Cooper, John Phillips, R.A., John Linnell
and others; and works of such prominent Acade-
micians, past and present, as Alma-Tadema,
J. C. Hook, Thomas Faed, Sir E. J. Poynter. In
addition to paintings there are in the bequest three
remarkable decorative vases by Solon. A small
room of the exhibition was devoted to a few
invited works from contemporary and local
artists.

Regiment in August 1915,
after training with the
Inns of Court O.T.C., and
went to the Front last
January. The casualty
list of July also contained
the name of another artist,
Second-Lieut. Charles
Kingsley Howe, also of
the Berkshire Regiment,
who fell in the advance
on July t. Mr. Howe was
a member of the teaching
staff of the Goldsmiths’
College School of Art, and
an exhibitor at the Inter-
national Society’s shows.
He joined the Artists’
Rifles in September 1914,
and proceeding to the
Front in the following
January received his com-
mission a year ago, and
took part in the heavy
fighting at Loos and the


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