DOI Heft:
No. 293 (August 1917)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21263#0134
Studio- Talk
The various war funds have been generously the exhibition season, was here represented by
supported by artists as a body, and it is right three examples, and Mr. de Laszlo's remarkable
that the claims of the needy among themselves gifts were admirably displayed in his portraits of
should not be overlooked. Countess Curzon and Mr. Arthur Jowett. Mr.Wil-
- liam Strang, Mr. George Lambert, Mr. Howard
To the names already recorded of artist- Somerville, Mr. Frederic Whiting, and Mr. and
soldiers who have given their lives for their Mrs. Harold Knight were also well represented
country have to be added those of two who were by portrait or figure subjects, and Mr. Charles
familiar by their work to frequenters of London Sims's Remembrance is a work that cannot fail to
exhibitions—Captain C. M. Q. Orchardson, son beget remembrance. In landscape painting Mr.
of the late Sir W. Q. Orchardson, R.A., and R. W. Allan's Autumn into Winter, Mr. Oliver
himself a painter of marked ability, and Captain Hall's On the Outskirts of the New Forest, and Mr.
Gerard Chowne, known chiefly as a talented Lamorna Birch's The Quarry Road—December
painter of flower-pieces. Captain Orchardson, Sunshine were notable contributions, and the
who was attached to a camel corps in the East, interest of the exhibition was materially streng-
died of wounds, and Captain Chowne met his thened by the work of such artists as Mr. A. J.
death in the same way at Salonica. Munnings, Lieut. Verpilleux, Mr. Jack Yeats,
- and Constance Rea among others, as well as
Apart from the notable collection of litho- by the numerous water-colours, drawings, and
graphs by leading British artists at the Fine Art prints, among which we noted a water-colour
Society's Galleries and one or two other collec- Portrait of a Lady by Miss Sybil Ashmore, which
tions of work by artists who have been to the was especially pleasing by its decorative charm.
" front," the exhibitions of
the season which has just
closed have not contained
any large number of pic-
tures or drawings inspired
by the war. This is true
of the summer exhibition
of the International Society,
which, though again lack-
ing through force of circum-
stances the character im-
plied by the name of the
Society, must in virtue of
the high average of the
work displayed be ranked
as of primary importance
among the exhibitions of
the season, notwithstand-
ing the absence of some of
the leading supporters of
the Society. Mr. Nichol-
son's versatile genius was
again evidenced by his
portrait of General Smuts,
a couple of those flower-
pieces in which he has few
rivals, and a water-colour
study for a scene. Mr.
McEvoy, whose portraits
have been, perhaps, the "portrait of a lady" water-colour by sybil ashmore
most prominent feature Of {International Society)
118
The various war funds have been generously the exhibition season, was here represented by
supported by artists as a body, and it is right three examples, and Mr. de Laszlo's remarkable
that the claims of the needy among themselves gifts were admirably displayed in his portraits of
should not be overlooked. Countess Curzon and Mr. Arthur Jowett. Mr.Wil-
- liam Strang, Mr. George Lambert, Mr. Howard
To the names already recorded of artist- Somerville, Mr. Frederic Whiting, and Mr. and
soldiers who have given their lives for their Mrs. Harold Knight were also well represented
country have to be added those of two who were by portrait or figure subjects, and Mr. Charles
familiar by their work to frequenters of London Sims's Remembrance is a work that cannot fail to
exhibitions—Captain C. M. Q. Orchardson, son beget remembrance. In landscape painting Mr.
of the late Sir W. Q. Orchardson, R.A., and R. W. Allan's Autumn into Winter, Mr. Oliver
himself a painter of marked ability, and Captain Hall's On the Outskirts of the New Forest, and Mr.
Gerard Chowne, known chiefly as a talented Lamorna Birch's The Quarry Road—December
painter of flower-pieces. Captain Orchardson, Sunshine were notable contributions, and the
who was attached to a camel corps in the East, interest of the exhibition was materially streng-
died of wounds, and Captain Chowne met his thened by the work of such artists as Mr. A. J.
death in the same way at Salonica. Munnings, Lieut. Verpilleux, Mr. Jack Yeats,
- and Constance Rea among others, as well as
Apart from the notable collection of litho- by the numerous water-colours, drawings, and
graphs by leading British artists at the Fine Art prints, among which we noted a water-colour
Society's Galleries and one or two other collec- Portrait of a Lady by Miss Sybil Ashmore, which
tions of work by artists who have been to the was especially pleasing by its decorative charm.
" front," the exhibitions of
the season which has just
closed have not contained
any large number of pic-
tures or drawings inspired
by the war. This is true
of the summer exhibition
of the International Society,
which, though again lack-
ing through force of circum-
stances the character im-
plied by the name of the
Society, must in virtue of
the high average of the
work displayed be ranked
as of primary importance
among the exhibitions of
the season, notwithstand-
ing the absence of some of
the leading supporters of
the Society. Mr. Nichol-
son's versatile genius was
again evidenced by his
portrait of General Smuts,
a couple of those flower-
pieces in which he has few
rivals, and a water-colour
study for a scene. Mr.
McEvoy, whose portraits
have been, perhaps, the "portrait of a lady" water-colour by sybil ashmore
most prominent feature Of {International Society)
118