International studio (60.1916/1917)

Studio- Talk

All the artists named are well represented in the
exhibition, and we would mention especially Mr.
Lamorna Birch’s Silvery Morning—Holme Lacey,
Hereford, and Chepstow Castle, Mr. Murray Smith’s
Hills of Silence and The Pied Clouds come and
go, Mr. Russell Flint’s A Merry Company and
Judith, Mrs. Knight’s The Surf, Newlyn Beach,
and The Fair at Might, Mr. Cayley Robinson’s
The Winter Sun. Among works sent by members
of longer standing which give strength to the
present display are Mr. Byarn Shaw’s arresting
interpretation of an incident in Shakespeare’s
“ King Henry VI.,” She shall not strike Dame
Eleanor unrevenged, Mr. Charles Sims’s The
Necklace, Mr. R. W. Allan’s The Taj, Agra, and
Damascus, Mr. Walter West’s A British Idyll, 1916,
Mr. Albert Goodwin’s
Lighting the Beacon Fire—
The Coming of the Armada,
and Stonecrop on the Higher
Alps, Mr. Robert Little’s
Edinburgh Castle, Mr.D.Y.
Cameron’s Castle Urquhart
and Morven and Mull, Mr.
W. J. Wainwright’s An Old
Sailmaker, Mr. Edwin
Alexander’s studies of

that great and far-sighted soldier, Field-Marshal
Lord Roberts, has for its aim the employment of
disabled soldiers and sailors, and is thus helping
to solve one of the most pressing problems arising
out of the war. A large number of men who have
sacrificed a limb—and in some cases more than
one limb—in the country’s cause are now occupied
in the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops making
toys and useful articles of all kinds. Our illustra-
tion shows some of the playthings made in the
workshops, together with some of a different origin.
They form part—and, of course, only a small part
—of an exhibition at Waylett’s, 17 Upper George
Street, Bryanston Square, where the productions
of the workshops may be seen, together with a
large variety of the now popular “jig-saw” puzzle


animal life, and Air. Rack-
ham’s fairy-tale fantasies,
Little All-A lone and Old
Mother What's-her-Name.

As pointed out by Mr.
Seaby in his recent article
on the Exhibition of Toys
at the Whitechapel Art
Gallery, the building up
in this country of a new
industry such as the making
of toys, for which until the
outbreak of war we were
almost wholly dependent
on Germany, is no easy
matter, but it is gratifying
to note that, thanks to the
efforts of various organisa-
tions, the movement has
made a good start and pro-
mises to become an asset of
national importance. Fore-
most among the institutions
which have taken up this
line of work is that which,
perpetuating the memory of


NICHOLAS GATTY “CALENDAR” DOLLS, TOYS MADE
IN THE LORD ROBERTS MEMORIAL WORKSHOPS, ETC.