DOI Heft:
No. 294 (September 1917)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21263#0172
Studio- Talk
Secretary of the War Office or the Secretary
of the Admiralty. _
In their publicity arrangements the managers
of the London Underground Railways have
freely availed themselves of the services of
artists of repute for the designing of posters
calling attention to the facilities afforded by
their system of communications, and these
posters now form a long and unique series. We
have on previous occasions reproduced various
of them, and now add one designed by Mr. J.
Walter West, R.W.S., who, after earning a wide
reputation as a painter, has only during the last
few years turned his attention to lithography.
That he should have succeeded in this medium
as he has is not at all surprising, for draughtsman-
ship has always been one of his strong points.
Like Mr. West, M. Emile Claus has, since his
migration to London in the fateful autumn of
1914, availed himself of the generous facilities
provided at the Central School of Arts and
Crafts, Southampton Row, for practice and
experiment in lithographic drawing, but with
the methods proper to this medium the eminent
Belgian painter had long been familiar, ere he
was compelled by the approach of the invading
Teutonic hordes to quit his pleasant abode on
the banks of the Lys. The lithograph we now
reproduce (page 157) is a product of last winter,
when the veteran artist, looking out from the
windows of a studio overlooking the Embank-
ment, gathered and recorded those interesting
impressions of the Thames which were the
subject of the paintings exhibited a few months
since at the Goupil Gallery, and it demonstrates
admirably the power of this worshipper of
sunshine and colour to register kindred im-
pressions in a monochrome medium. The print
was included in the last exhibition of the Sene-
felder Club, but in the catalogue was unfor-
tunately attributed to another artist.
We referred recently to Mr. Joseph Pennell's
resignation of the presidency of the Senefelder
Club and acceptance of honorary membership.
Mr. Pennell, as we now learn, has gone, or is
about to go, to America with the intention of
residing there permanently. The Club has not
yet elected his successor, but meanwhile Mr.
A. S. Hartrick is acting as president. Mr.
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LITHOGRAPH DESIGNED AS A POSTER FOR THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS
BY J. WALTER WEST, R.W.S.
Secretary of the War Office or the Secretary
of the Admiralty. _
In their publicity arrangements the managers
of the London Underground Railways have
freely availed themselves of the services of
artists of repute for the designing of posters
calling attention to the facilities afforded by
their system of communications, and these
posters now form a long and unique series. We
have on previous occasions reproduced various
of them, and now add one designed by Mr. J.
Walter West, R.W.S., who, after earning a wide
reputation as a painter, has only during the last
few years turned his attention to lithography.
That he should have succeeded in this medium
as he has is not at all surprising, for draughtsman-
ship has always been one of his strong points.
Like Mr. West, M. Emile Claus has, since his
migration to London in the fateful autumn of
1914, availed himself of the generous facilities
provided at the Central School of Arts and
Crafts, Southampton Row, for practice and
experiment in lithographic drawing, but with
the methods proper to this medium the eminent
Belgian painter had long been familiar, ere he
was compelled by the approach of the invading
Teutonic hordes to quit his pleasant abode on
the banks of the Lys. The lithograph we now
reproduce (page 157) is a product of last winter,
when the veteran artist, looking out from the
windows of a studio overlooking the Embank-
ment, gathered and recorded those interesting
impressions of the Thames which were the
subject of the paintings exhibited a few months
since at the Goupil Gallery, and it demonstrates
admirably the power of this worshipper of
sunshine and colour to register kindred im-
pressions in a monochrome medium. The print
was included in the last exhibition of the Sene-
felder Club, but in the catalogue was unfor-
tunately attributed to another artist.
We referred recently to Mr. Joseph Pennell's
resignation of the presidency of the Senefelder
Club and acceptance of honorary membership.
Mr. Pennell, as we now learn, has gone, or is
about to go, to America with the intention of
residing there permanently. The Club has not
yet elected his successor, but meanwhile Mr.
A. S. Hartrick is acting as president. Mr.
156
LITHOGRAPH DESIGNED AS A POSTER FOR THE LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS
BY J. WALTER WEST, R.W.S.