International studio (60.1916/1917)

Studio- Talk

P. A. Staynes, Arthur Streeton, F. L. Van Someren,
W. E. Webster, Frederic Whiting, and Norman
Wilkinson, and two only (Mr. Smyth and Mr.
Staynes) were represented on the walls of the
Institute last month. Still, though the absence of
a dozen members such as those named from the
annual exhibition must inevitably have had a
marked effect on the average quality of the work
shown, the display as a whole was far from dis-
appointing. The Institute honoured the memory
of the late Mr. Douglas Almond by showing a
group of his pictures, including some of the
Breton subjects which this gifted artist painted
in the months preceding his death. The late Sir
James Linton was represented by a single small
picture, which certainly did not show him at his
best, nor was the high-water mark of Mr. Arthur
Bell apparent in the works representing this
recently deceased member. In the general body
of exhibits we noted the following as among those
of chief interest: Mr. Terrick Williams’s Rocks
and Foam—St. Ives and Cloudland, Coast of
Holland, Mr. Harold Knight’s A Moorland Farm

and An Old Harbour, Mr. Louis Sargent’s Porth,
Newquay, and St. Ives Bay, Mr. Will Ashton’s
Rotterdam, Holland, Mr. E. Reginald Frampton’s
Alpine Idyll, Sussex, and The Sympathy of Earth
and Sky (the last with a rather curious effect of
cloud), Mr. Spenlove-Spenlove’s On the Banks
of the Yser, Mr. Julius Olsson’s Moonlit Waters,
Mr. Gemmell-Hutchison’s In the Sunshine, Mr.
F. G. Cotman’s A Supfolk Chalk Pit, Mr. W. B. E.
Ranken’s La Chanson Grivoise (panel for over-
door) and Portrait Sketch, the still-life pieces by
Miss Dorothea Landau, Mr. Frank Carter, and
Mr. Davis Richter respectively, Mr. Oswald Moser’s
Mrs. Ernest Mayer, Mr. R. G. Eves’s Mrs.
Fleming, and Mr. Montague Smyth’s Day Dreams.
The Royal Society of British Artists also has the
names of fourteen artists on its Roll of Honour as
having joined the Forces, and not one was repre-
sented in the recent autumn exhibition at the
galleries in Suffolk Street, with the sole exception
of Mr. Samuel Teed, who, as already recorded in
these pages, has given his life for his country.


MEMORIAL TO NURSE CAVELL IN SHOREDITCH INFIRMARY (See page I40)

BY GORDON M. FORSYTH

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