DOI Heft:
No. 303 (June 1918)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21265#0030
Studio- Talk
pictures of land and sea which testify to the are reproduced to illustrate Sir Frederick
versatility of his gifts. Wedmore's article in this number, and simul-
-- taneously there is being shown at these galleries
The work of two other Official Artists on the the collection of paintings, drawings, and prints
Western Front has been on view during the formed by the late Judge William Evans. This
past weeks at London galleries—Mr. Paul Nash collection—an important one on account of the
at the Leicester Galleries and Mr. William discriminating taste exercised in its formation,
Rothenstein at the Goupil Gallery, Regent and in particular because of the ample repre-
Street. The work of the latter includes a sentation it affords of certain phases of modern
number of portraits of military officers and men, British art—was the subject of an article which
European and Indian, but the significance of appeared in this magazine some nine years ago
this collection, like that of Lieut. Nash, lies in (October 1909), when numerous of the works
the presentation of the tragic effects of the war belonging to it were reproduced, and we are
on the country itself, once so fair and smiling now privileged to reproduce in colour two further
but now a vast tract of ruin and desolation, examples, Charles Conder's Brighton and Monti-
Mr. Rothenstein is more matter-of-fact in his celli's The Conversation—the former one of a
methods than Mr. Nash, whose pictures and pair of pictures admirably displaying the artist's
drawings, however, certainly communicate a deep rare sensitiveness of vision and the latter a
impression of " The Void of War," the title given little gem (the original being not a great deal
to his exhibition. larger than the reproduction) bespeaking, like
the larger Fete Champetre reproduced with the
At the Goupil Gallery, following on Mr. article just mentioned, the emotional employ-
Rothenstein's show, Mr. Marchant has brought ment of colour which distinguished this artist.
together a collection of recent work by Mr. -
William Nicholson, various examples of which Mr. Harold Waite, of whose work as a land-
" IN THE KENNET VALLEY "
24
BY HAROLD WAITE
pictures of land and sea which testify to the are reproduced to illustrate Sir Frederick
versatility of his gifts. Wedmore's article in this number, and simul-
-- taneously there is being shown at these galleries
The work of two other Official Artists on the the collection of paintings, drawings, and prints
Western Front has been on view during the formed by the late Judge William Evans. This
past weeks at London galleries—Mr. Paul Nash collection—an important one on account of the
at the Leicester Galleries and Mr. William discriminating taste exercised in its formation,
Rothenstein at the Goupil Gallery, Regent and in particular because of the ample repre-
Street. The work of the latter includes a sentation it affords of certain phases of modern
number of portraits of military officers and men, British art—was the subject of an article which
European and Indian, but the significance of appeared in this magazine some nine years ago
this collection, like that of Lieut. Nash, lies in (October 1909), when numerous of the works
the presentation of the tragic effects of the war belonging to it were reproduced, and we are
on the country itself, once so fair and smiling now privileged to reproduce in colour two further
but now a vast tract of ruin and desolation, examples, Charles Conder's Brighton and Monti-
Mr. Rothenstein is more matter-of-fact in his celli's The Conversation—the former one of a
methods than Mr. Nash, whose pictures and pair of pictures admirably displaying the artist's
drawings, however, certainly communicate a deep rare sensitiveness of vision and the latter a
impression of " The Void of War," the title given little gem (the original being not a great deal
to his exhibition. larger than the reproduction) bespeaking, like
the larger Fete Champetre reproduced with the
At the Goupil Gallery, following on Mr. article just mentioned, the emotional employ-
Rothenstein's show, Mr. Marchant has brought ment of colour which distinguished this artist.
together a collection of recent work by Mr. -
William Nicholson, various examples of which Mr. Harold Waite, of whose work as a land-
" IN THE KENNET VALLEY "
24
BY HAROLD WAITE