DOI Heft:
No. 309 (December 1918)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24600#0101
Studio- Talk
VERPOOL.—We
give on the oppo-
site page a re-
production of an
etching of the famous
church of St. Sophia,
Constantinople, by Mr. W.
Alison Martin, a leading
member of the artist
colony at Liverpool, to
whose work as a painter
reference has been made
from time to time in these
pages, chiefly in connexion
with the autumn exhibi-
tions at the Walker Art
Gallery, Liverpool. As a
painter he has excelled in
STREET IN RACQUINGHEM, PAS-DE-CALAIS figure Subjects, but this
etching and others exe-
a reputation thirty years ago with his Cassandra cuted in recent years show that he is equally at
and Samson and Delilah, but in late years he home with the needle and acid and is no less
has devoted himself almost exclusively to por- capable of interpreting the beauties of architec-
traiture. The Suffolk Street galleries of the ture.
Society over which Mr. Solomon has been called "1 "X ARIS.—From numberless photographs
to preside have been commandeered by the I J and sketches published in countless
Government, and the winter exhibition of the periodicals the world at large has
works of members and associates of the Society A gained some idea of the appalling
is being held at Burlington House, where four devastation which a large part of France situated
rooms have been placed at their disposal by eastward of Paris has suffered through the war,
the Council of the Royal Academy. The and of the immensity of the work of recon-
works exhibited are certainly seen to much struction that has now to be prosecuted without
better advantage than in
Suffolk Street, but as a
whole the character of
the display presents no
marked deviation from
those we have been
accustomed to see in the
Society's own quarters.
Sir John Lavery has
presented to the nation
some fifty pictures of
naval subjects painted
by him since the out-
break of war. These are
being shown at the
Grosvenor Gallery, and
are, it is understood, to
find a permanent home
in the Imperial War
Museum.
HOUSE AT WALLON-CAPPEL (NORD)
91
VERPOOL.—We
give on the oppo-
site page a re-
production of an
etching of the famous
church of St. Sophia,
Constantinople, by Mr. W.
Alison Martin, a leading
member of the artist
colony at Liverpool, to
whose work as a painter
reference has been made
from time to time in these
pages, chiefly in connexion
with the autumn exhibi-
tions at the Walker Art
Gallery, Liverpool. As a
painter he has excelled in
STREET IN RACQUINGHEM, PAS-DE-CALAIS figure Subjects, but this
etching and others exe-
a reputation thirty years ago with his Cassandra cuted in recent years show that he is equally at
and Samson and Delilah, but in late years he home with the needle and acid and is no less
has devoted himself almost exclusively to por- capable of interpreting the beauties of architec-
traiture. The Suffolk Street galleries of the ture.
Society over which Mr. Solomon has been called "1 "X ARIS.—From numberless photographs
to preside have been commandeered by the I J and sketches published in countless
Government, and the winter exhibition of the periodicals the world at large has
works of members and associates of the Society A gained some idea of the appalling
is being held at Burlington House, where four devastation which a large part of France situated
rooms have been placed at their disposal by eastward of Paris has suffered through the war,
the Council of the Royal Academy. The and of the immensity of the work of recon-
works exhibited are certainly seen to much struction that has now to be prosecuted without
better advantage than in
Suffolk Street, but as a
whole the character of
the display presents no
marked deviation from
those we have been
accustomed to see in the
Society's own quarters.
Sir John Lavery has
presented to the nation
some fifty pictures of
naval subjects painted
by him since the out-
break of war. These are
being shown at the
Grosvenor Gallery, and
are, it is understood, to
find a permanent home
in the Imperial War
Museum.
HOUSE AT WALLON-CAPPEL (NORD)
91