Studio: international art (80.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

PEN DRAWING FOR A TITLE
PAGE. BY S. M. LITTEN

decorated. Three of the galleries (XIV.-
XVI.) and two armouries still remain
temporarily closed, but as a set-off there
are four new galleries. The hours of
admission have been made uniform for
the whole year—week days 10 to 5, and
Sundays 2 to 5 ; on Tuesdays and
Fridays a fee of sixpence will be charged.
Guide lecturers have been appointed, and
the catalogues have been brought up to date.

Mr. S. M. Litten is one of the artists
who have recently given us yet another
technique to add to the already long
list; and once again we foresee that
those learned professors who assure us
that there is a right and a wrong way

to handle the pen, ignoring the fact that
in the case of this implement, like that
of the etching needle, the methods of
use are almost infinite, will have to give
place to the youthful spirit that will not
be denied. The examples of his work
here reproduced show us his imaginative
vision, and also how admirably his tech-
nical accomplishment can express his
very personal outlook. We shall look
forward with interest to the future de-
velopments of his art. Mr. Litten, like
many others, is working now with that
enthusiasm natural to one who has,
without doubt, gladly given some of his
best years of youth to military service. 0