DOI issue:
No. 285 (December 1916)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0160
Studio- Talk
All the artists named are well represented in the that great and far-sighted soldier, Field-Marshal
exhibition, and we would mention especially Mr. Lord Roberts, has for its aim the employment of
Lamorna Birch's Silvery Morning—Holme Lacey, disabled soldiers and sailors, and is thus helping
Hereford, and Chepstow Castle, Mr. Murray Smith's to solve one of the most pressing problems arising
Hills of Silence and The Pied Clouds come and out of the war. A large number of men who have
go, Mr. Russell Flint's A Merry Company and sacrificed a limb—and in some cases more than
Judith, Mrs. Knight's The Surf, Newlyn Beach, one limb—in the country's cause are now occupied
and The Fair at Night, Mr. Cayley Robinson's in the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops making
The Winter Sun. Among works sent by members toys and useful articles of all kinds. Our illustra-
of longer standing which give strength to the tion shows some of the playthings made in the
present display are Mr. Byam Shaw's arresting workshops, together with some of a different origin,
interpretation of an incident in Shakespeare's They form part—and, of course, only a small part
"King Henry VI.," She shall not strike Dame —of an exhibition at Waylett's, 17 Upper George
Eleanor unrevenged, Mr. Charles Sims's The Street, Bryanston Square, where the productions
Necklace, Mr. R. W. Allan's The Taj, Agra, and of the workshops may be seen, together with a
Damascus, Mr. Walter West's A British Idyll, 1916, large variety of the now popular "jig-saw" puzzle
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
animal life, and Mr. Rack-
ham's fairy-tale fantasies,
Little All-Alone 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 male
r r 6 ^ IN THE LORD ROBERTS MEMORIAL WORKSHOPS, ETC.
I50
All the artists named are well represented in the that great and far-sighted soldier, Field-Marshal
exhibition, and we would mention especially Mr. Lord Roberts, has for its aim the employment of
Lamorna Birch's Silvery Morning—Holme Lacey, disabled soldiers and sailors, and is thus helping
Hereford, and Chepstow Castle, Mr. Murray Smith's to solve one of the most pressing problems arising
Hills of Silence and The Pied Clouds come and out of the war. A large number of men who have
go, Mr. Russell Flint's A Merry Company and sacrificed a limb—and in some cases more than
Judith, Mrs. Knight's The Surf, Newlyn Beach, one limb—in the country's cause are now occupied
and The Fair at Night, Mr. Cayley Robinson's in the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops making
The Winter Sun. Among works sent by members toys and useful articles of all kinds. Our illustra-
of longer standing which give strength to the tion shows some of the playthings made in the
present display are Mr. Byam Shaw's arresting workshops, together with some of a different origin,
interpretation of an incident in Shakespeare's They form part—and, of course, only a small part
"King Henry VI.," She shall not strike Dame —of an exhibition at Waylett's, 17 Upper George
Eleanor unrevenged, Mr. Charles Sims's The Street, Bryanston Square, where the productions
Necklace, Mr. R. W. Allan's The Taj, Agra, and of the workshops may be seen, together with a
Damascus, Mr. Walter West's A British Idyll, 1916, large variety of the now popular "jig-saw" puzzle
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
animal life, and Mr. Rack-
ham's fairy-tale fantasies,
Little All-Alone 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 male
r r 6 ^ IN THE LORD ROBERTS MEMORIAL WORKSHOPS, ETC.
I50