Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-16
BRITISH WAR ART
EXHIBIT OPENS
26 Artists Represented in No.
table Collection Of Paint
ings at Academy
SUBJECTS ARE VARlE D

An exhibition of war paintings and
drawings by eminent British artists
opened this morning at the Academy OF
the Fine Arts. The exhibit will be in
Philadelphia for one month.
The pictures are being shown
throughout the country on behalf of the
British Government Arrangements
for the tour were made under the di-
rection of Raymond Wyer, director OF
the Worcester Art Museum, Worces
ter. Mass.
There are 242 pictures in the col
lection, representing the work OF
twenty six artists. OF this number
1O3 are the contribution of Sir William
Orpen. The other artists are w. b.
Adeney, Alfred Bentley, Muirhead
Bone, Frank Brangwyn, George
Clausen. Jacob Epstein, John Everett,
Colin w. Gill, c. J. Holmes, Augustus
John, Eric II. Remington, Sir John
Lavery, Wyndham Lewis, James Nc
Bey, Bernard Meninsky, John Nash
Paul Nash, c. r. w. Nevinson, G
Spencer Pryse, William P. Roberts
William Rothenstein, Henry Rushbury
Randolph Schwabe, E. A. Nerpilleu,
and Harrington Mann.
The subjects of the paintings ant
drawings embrace every conceivable i'm
preston which the war made upor
them. Mediums employed include oil
water color, crayon, ink and pencil.
Orpen's Work CynOsure
Though in competition with tn
! e Il Il -
the st-known English portrait paint
ers, and other artists of the front rank
who are known in America as we'll a
in England, Sir William Orpen ha
produced an array of subjects so diver
sifed and exquisite as to draw chic
attention to his own works. Sir JohI
Lavery has no portraits in the collcc
tion. Sir William Orpen was chosel
to officially paint the scene of the trans
fer of the German high seas fleet to tn
Allied command.
Among his portraits are those Q
Marshall Foch and Field Marsha
Haig. General Rawlinson and othe
British and French high officers. 81
| William was himself constantly at tn
front and one of the most finely don
and impressive of his portraits is on
of himself, clad in the British uniforr
and standing in a trench.
Three Tommies in Large Group
The largest picture is one By Angus
tus John, depicting three British Tom
, mics, lighting each others cigarettes
front of a battered village house. 1t
called Fraternity. Another large oil
by George Clausen and is called Renais
sance. 1t typihes, in the form of
young woman in the nude, surrounde
. by several other figures, the rebirth (
Belgium. 1t is ennobling in it's cor
ceptiou, ably executed and beautiful
,, color. \ number Of pictures in Il
works of c. r. W. Nevinson, who
! exhibiting the third largest numbe
; show a tendency towards the cubi
school, as do also several others. Mar
of the pictures of James McBey, wi
:, has the second largest number in Il
: collection, twenty six, are done in +,
q strained tones, although their subject
h of course, appertain to war. They a
: done largely in brownish tints.
a Some of the paintings are obvious
exaggerated in anatomical effects,
h order, no doubt, to convey an impressit
= other than one to be derived from me
4 objective and technical inspection.
. The exhibit is open daily and the
: is no charge made for admission.