International studio . ecent Special Number on British Marine Painting, and somefurther examples are here given from the 70 important collection of drawings executedby him in the winter of 1918-1919, duringa mission to the Baltic at the instance ofthe Imperial War Museum. It is unfor-tunate that a painter of his capacity shouldnot have been selected as one of theOfficial War Artists, and should indeedhave had to wait until after the Armisticebefore having an opportunity of contribut-ing to the national records. An enthusiasticTerritorial for years before the war, hejoined his unit for active s
International studio . ecent Special Number on British Marine Painting, and somefurther examples are here given from the 70 important collection of drawings executedby him in the winter of 1918-1919, duringa mission to the Baltic at the instance ofthe Imperial War Museum. It is unfor-tunate that a painter of his capacity shouldnot have been selected as one of theOfficial War Artists, and should indeedhave had to wait until after the Armisticebefore having an opportunity of contribut-ing to the national records. An enthusiasticTerritorial for years before the war, hejoined his unit for active service in August1914, and for a year commanded a companyon coast defence. Drafted to France in1916, he served with a cyclist company Arras sector, and was subsequentlytransferred to the Map Semce of the SixthCorps, many of the maps used in theBattle of Arras in 1917 being made underhis supervision. Later he was selected toassist Mr. Norman Wilkinson in developingthe system of da::2le painting which in STUDIO-TALK. BOILER-BOOM, CURLEW WATER-COLOUR BY CECIL KING the last year or two of the war helpedmaterially to thwart the enemys submarineactivities. a 0 a a a Since its inauguration in 1915 the BritishIndustries Fair, instituted to provide anannual rendezvous for wholesale producersand retailers such as that afforded by theLenten fair at Leipzig, has with eachsucceeding year assumed larger and largerproportions. This years fair, held at theCrystal Palace early last month, was fromall accounts, a remarkable success from acommercial point of view, but we areafraid it cannot be said that in regard todesign as distinguished from purely tech-nical qualities, the goods displayed showedany marked improvement. With the ex-ception of a small minority our manufac-turers as represented at this fair wouldstill seem to lack a proper appreciation ofthe commercial value of good design, andto harbour the fallacy that because thepublic buy what is offered they would notbuy something
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