Studio: international art (69.1916)

Studio- Talk

DRAWING-ROOM, "WHITETHORNS," BROUGHTY FERRY MACLAREN SONS AND SOUTAR, ARCHITECTS

(See page 137)

STUDIO-TALK.

{From Our Own Correspondents.)

CDON.—On the first anniversary of Miss
Edith Cavell's heroic death in Brussels
the memorial triptych, of which we give
an illustration on page 143, was unveiled
by Dr. Addison, M.P., in the Nurses' Dining
Room at the Shoreditch Infirmary, where Miss
Cavell was engaged for about three years just
before she took up her appointment as Matron at
Brussels. The painting, which is the work of
Mr. Gordon Forsyth of Manchester, whose decora-
tive and pictorial work we have had the pleasure
of reproducing on several occasions, is brilliant in
colour, and "Charity," flanked by "Faith" and
" Hope," has been chosen as most appropriately
symbolising the career of the brave woman whose
memory it perpetuates. The decoration is painted
on oak and is enclosed in a richly carved frame,
the work of Mr. J. Lenegan of Manchester.
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All the leading Art societies which usually hold
exhibitions in the autumn have again fulfilled
their programmes, and there appears to have been
no abatement of public interest in the displays they
have offered. The International Society's exhibi-
tion at the Grosvenor Gallery and that of the "Old"
Water-Colour Society in Pall Mall will continue
open a little while longer, while the Royal Institute
of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of British
Artists closed their doors last month. Both the
last named societies have contributed strong con-
tingents to His Majesty's Forces, and of these not
more than two or three were represented in the
exhibitions of their respective societies.

The names of fourteen members of the Institute
of Oil Painters are inscribed in the catalogue
as serving with the Forces — Messrs. Oswald
Birley, George J. Coates, T. C. Dugdale, Louis
Ginnett, W. Lee Hankey, C. M. Q. Orchardson,
Glyn W. Philpot, A.R.A., Montague Smyth,