Studio: international art (68.1916)

Studio-Talk

young artists are now engaged in an infinitely Hohenzollern Redoubt last autumn. He was 27

sterner competition, and therefore have no chance years of age.
of participating in competitions of this sort, it would

have been better perhaps to have postponed them 1 ~V RIGHTON.—We give here reproductions
till the end of the War, when the conditions in I J of a dry-point and a charcoal drawing
every respect would be more favourable. | by Miss Stella Langdale, a Brighton
- J J artist whose work is to be seen not only

Mr. Will Dyson's exhibition of cartoons at the at local exhibitions but at some of the leading

Chenil Gallery, entitled " The German View," London shows, such as those of the International

revealed an artist who is hardly rivalled on tech- Society, the Senefelder Club, etc. In the various

nical grounds either by Raemaekers or by the Italian forms of graphic art which she practises Miss

artists whose work has been shown in London. Langdale shows due regard for the scope and

But the impression received from the exhibition is limitations of her medium,

that preoccupation with style and regard for artistic -

beauty mean more to Mr. Dyson than his subject. The summer exhibition at the Public Art Gallery
He is at his best when he represents not the consisted of the collection of modern pictures
Prussian but the victims of the Prussian system, of the Simpkin Bequest to the town, and of a
even in Germany. His art is of an intellectual loan collection of portraits of the eighteenth-
rather than an emotional cast, and he does not century English School. The bequest includes
convince us that the cartoon is the natural province important works by W. J. Muller, David Cox,
of his genius. Sidney Cooper, John Phillips, R.A., John Linnell

and others; and works of such prominent Acade-
We greatly regretted to see in one of the casualty micians, past and present, as Alma-Tadema,
lists published early last month the name of J. C. Hook, Thomas Faed, Sir E. J. Poynter. In
Henry Samuel Teed, Director of the Whitechapel addition to paintings there are in the bequest three
Art Gallery and Member of the Royal Society of remarkable decorative vases by Solon. A small
British Artists, who was killed while organising room of the exhibition was devoted to a few
resistance to a German attack on July 25. Mr. invited works from contemporary and local
Teed received a commission in the Berkshire 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 "a road in italy" dry-point by stella langdale

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