DOI issue:
No. 299 (February 1918)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21356#0033
Studio- Talk
by a new series entitled " British Artists at drawings we reproduce and many others—
the Front," containing reproductions in colour there can be no doubt that he does succeed in
of drawings by the other artists on the list, conveying a convincing impression of the scene
We have been permitted to reproduce in another before him ; and where life and movement
part of this issue a few of Mr. McBey's drawings enter into the scene, the geometric touch
from the Sinai region, and also to include here unquestionably helps to that end.
some of those done on the Western Front by
Mr. Nevinson which will form the first part of It is with great regret that we record the
the new publication. Mr. Nevinson, as many death of Professor Edward Lanteri, who died
of our readers probably know, went to the a few days before Christmas, at the age of
front shortly after the outbreak of war in 1914 seventy, after holding for thirty-seven years
as a motor mechanic and ambulance driver, the Professorship of Sculpture at the Royal
and while serving in that capacity recorded his College of Art, South Kensington. Born at
impressions in a series of pictures which attracted Auxerre in Burgundy, he took part in the
much attention at the .Leicester Galleries and Franco-German War, and afterwards came to
have since been reproduced in book form, this country at the suggestion of Dalou, on
Early in 1916 he was invalided home and whose recommendation he became assistant to
received his discharge from the .Army. He Sir Edgar Boehm, with whom he continued for
returned to France last year as an official some time after, succeeding Dalou as Professor at
artist, and the work that is about to be pub- the Royal College, then known as the National
lished, including the examples we now illus- Art Training School. No more eloquent testi-
trate, is, of course, that which was done by mony to his value as a teacher can be cited
him in that capacity. Whatever opinion may than that of one of his most distinguished
be entertained regarding his " geometrical " pupils, Mr. Alfred Gilbert, who, in concluding
method—not markedly in evidence in the a brief introduction to an article on the late
AFTER A ' PUSH ' " -
BYC.R. W. NEVINSON, OFFICIAL ARTIST IN FRANCE
27
by a new series entitled " British Artists at drawings we reproduce and many others—
the Front," containing reproductions in colour there can be no doubt that he does succeed in
of drawings by the other artists on the list, conveying a convincing impression of the scene
We have been permitted to reproduce in another before him ; and where life and movement
part of this issue a few of Mr. McBey's drawings enter into the scene, the geometric touch
from the Sinai region, and also to include here unquestionably helps to that end.
some of those done on the Western Front by
Mr. Nevinson which will form the first part of It is with great regret that we record the
the new publication. Mr. Nevinson, as many death of Professor Edward Lanteri, who died
of our readers probably know, went to the a few days before Christmas, at the age of
front shortly after the outbreak of war in 1914 seventy, after holding for thirty-seven years
as a motor mechanic and ambulance driver, the Professorship of Sculpture at the Royal
and while serving in that capacity recorded his College of Art, South Kensington. Born at
impressions in a series of pictures which attracted Auxerre in Burgundy, he took part in the
much attention at the .Leicester Galleries and Franco-German War, and afterwards came to
have since been reproduced in book form, this country at the suggestion of Dalou, on
Early in 1916 he was invalided home and whose recommendation he became assistant to
received his discharge from the .Army. He Sir Edgar Boehm, with whom he continued for
returned to France last year as an official some time after, succeeding Dalou as Professor at
artist, and the work that is about to be pub- the Royal College, then known as the National
lished, including the examples we now illus- Art Training School. No more eloquent testi-
trate, is, of course, that which was done by mony to his value as a teacher can be cited
him in that capacity. Whatever opinion may than that of one of his most distinguished
be entertained regarding his " geometrical " pupils, Mr. Alfred Gilbert, who, in concluding
method—not markedly in evidence in the a brief introduction to an article on the late
AFTER A ' PUSH ' " -
BYC.R. W. NEVINSON, OFFICIAL ARTIST IN FRANCE
27