January 20, igi6. 
LAND AND WATER 
ARTISTS IN PEACE AND WAR. 
By a Correspondent. 
THERE has been opened at the Leicester 
Galleries, Leicester Square, an exhibition of 
paintings and etchings by the members " of 
that famous corps, the Artist Rifles The 
first impression which a walk round the galleries creates 
is the singularly high general standard oTm;n -every fn The^fedment No" IsfT^'"' 
picture has individuaHtv. and it .x,o„iri k. ^;«;„.,i. Z \. ^"^ regiment. No. 68, a drinkin 
picture has individuahty, and it would be difficult to 
bring together a collection so exempt from- poor work- 
manship. ^ 
Artists evidently soldier as well as they paint • so we 
can readily understand the tribute of praise ' which 
General Viscount French of Ypres paid to them on his 
departure from France— a tribute of which the regiment 
IS naturally proud. " Officers and Men." he said " it is 
Eolm' SlTne."^"''''" "'"' " ^^ Lance-Corporal 
In the Reynold's Room where the paintings are 
hung one meets again with pleasure the Egyptian 
paintings of Mr. Lance Thackeray, now a Lance-Corporal 
angularly appropriate 
and. nothing could give 
me greater pleasure 
than that your regi- 
ment, the Artists' 
Rifles, should be the 
last British troops that 
I shall see in France. 
You have done wonder- 
ful work since you came 
out. You have fur- 
nished some of the 
finest leaders of the 
army from your ranks, 
and in doing so you 
have suffered perhaps 
greater losses than any 
other regiment out 
here. You have done 
great work, and I have 
no doubt that you will 
continue to do so till the 
«nd of the campaign. 
I am very pleased that 
the Guard of Honour 
on my leaving France 
should be supplied by 
the Artists' Rifles. I 
wish you good-bye and 
good luck." 
This exhibition is 
not by any means a 
war exhibition, much 
of the work was done 
previous to August, 
1914, and in some in- 
stances this very fact 
gives a new significance 
to the exhibit ; thus 
No. 49 shows us 
" Ypres, April 1914," 
by Private Eric Sharpe. 
This must be among 
one of the last pictures 
to be made of the old 
capital of Flanders 
before the Hun fury 
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HIGH BEACH: SEPTEMBER 1915. 
By Lance-Corporal James Thorpe. 
TTr^r^or- T? ^^ :-:-• *•"• ^ — " -wMiig pkcc at Dicrout, 
Upper Egypt, is a perfect example of his exceptional 
power in reproducing the atmosphere of the desert 
Corporal Gerald Ackermann shows two excellent pictures' 
one of_^ Corfe Castle" and the other of "Richmond 
Lastle, and there, is a touch of the Futurist that is 
very pleasing in Private Paul Nash's "Tree-Tops" 
(83) and Summer Garden " (91). Breadth of vision 
and treatment characterises Captain Gerard Chowne's 
" The Chff " (66) ; 
Sergeant C. Maresco 
Pearce's " Mentone " is 
a splendid presentation 
o f Italian domestic 
architecture, and Lieu- 
tenant W. Lee ^an- 
key's " France in 1914- 
1915 " (74 and 78) are 
admirably expressed. 
" Somewhere in 
France " (93), by Ser- 
geant E. Handley 
Read, is a vigorous 
painting of a typical 
willow-avenued road 
flooded with rain ; and 
2nd Lieutenant Adrian 
Klein (we notice from 
the catalogue that he 
has been given a com- 
mission .since he gave 
up etching and took 
to painting, although 
whether on account of 
it or not is not men- 
tioned), has a pathetic 
painting of the " Flem- 
ish Mill, Ypres." 
Other contributors 
to this admirable ex- 
hibition are Colonel 
Walter C. Horsley, 
Captain Charles J. 
Blomfield, Captain 
Hall, Second Lieu- 
tenant A. E. Cooper. 
Corporal Montague 
Smyth, Lance-Corporal 
Dobson, and Private 
W. H. Fisher. Glanc- 
ing through the names 
and at the work on the 
walls of which these 
men are capable, the 
thought very naturally 
arises what will be the 
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broke against it and battered it into a mass of ruin, result of actual experiences in thTfidd'' undent J'oDiS 
^?f, '1 gams new deep pathos. Next to it is an etching conditions, on the future output of these artists Thev 
of ;• The Belfry, Bruges," by and Lieut. W: I-e Hai^ey ^^fPv^^^''^;:^^^'^ :Snr:S%^ 
' t'l'±.JlZrtl!'T. e„M„^^„^..!T;-- ^°.«-^ f^^"- and it seems ob'vioS 
which IS a very fine piece ^. ...... .... .,.(,'- — " ^^ icei me emouons to tne lull, and it seems obviou'« 
Belgium, reproduced on the opposite page, is by the that the new life in which some of them are even Z- 
same artist. Lance-Corporal E. L. Pattison has a engaged will cut deep into their work^ SrSneZr 
stnking etching of "Magdalen Tower, Oxford." Ser- Pryse, whose hthographs enjoy a urque reputa^En fn 
geant Garrard's lithograph "The Port of London," is a the world of art, has already showZT ho7deeply no^ 
hne study Something which is out of the common, and only the sadness, but the sliarp contrasts that iro in 
Which will necessarily command attention in that it evitable in war-time impress him One could not wi^h 
shows how intertwined in these bloodstained days are for a better example of this than the litho"ranh that 
peace and war, is the sketch of the proposed " Govern- appears in the present issue British Artillerv af T ^. 
ment Bmldmg " at Ottawa, by 2nd Lieutenant T. H. Mans-English guns resting under the shelter of the oM 
Hughes. "St. Omer from the Abbey" by Cadet Adrian French Cathedral. The scene at first Xnce at ' ^^^^ 
B. Klein, is sure to arrest many a Staff Officer from by its incongruity, but in its dramatic power lies the auiet 
l-orcl brench downwards. It woidd be difficult to give strength of the glorious building and the restless activitv 
a better idea of the beauty of this part of the exhibition of the gunners and their battery. It seems to shadow 
than by a glance at the bottom picture on the opposite forth the quiet potency and immutability of religion 
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