Studio: international art (78.1919)

A NEW NATIONAL GALLERY

“ REMOVING WOUNDED I SIXTY
YARDS FROM THE ENEMY.”
BY H. S. WILLIAMSON

quality of this collection are due to the
operations of two Government organiza-
tions. The Imperial War Museum, ac-
tively assisted by the various war depart-
ments, has been able to obtain from official
sources and by its own independent efforts
a series of pictures which are all of unques-
tionable fitness as statements of fact and
which are mostly interesting from the ar-
tistic point of view as well. The Ministry
of Information, which was formed in 1918
and carried on along the same lines the
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work begunNn 1916 by the War] Publica-
tions Department, arranged for the produc-
tion by a body of artists of another series
of pictures of specified sizes and painted
as far as possible in accordance with a
settled scheme. By the combination of
these two collections an artistic memorial
has been established which has every right
to be reckoned as a new National Gallery
and one which illustrates adequately some
of the most stirring pages in the history
of the British race, a a 0 a