Show e w 4 W I 1 WHO is NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated feature senthi EW YORK This war NEW so 10 far fa has lacked bands and banner and all other such traditional ex a cite ments and john Masef masefield feld h hai official artist not even eve woj rit ten a of present aft war about il ii 14 has experience one detail h 0 0 cowf W tv er british traditionalism again nl pr vails sir Mul muirhead cad bone official artist 0 of f the world war is abak aga officially appointed as the arti artist rf the navy and it is understood that he also will render the graphic rec of the conflict on land as well el sir muirhead 6 64 years old rf of scottish birth is one ot of the worlds most distinguished et chers he Is 4 also a painter but in th the e years yean in be tween the big wars he has turned more to etching that is with lh trend of the times a as a modern war is decidedly an et etcher chers v war skeleton trees on a blasted hillside zigzag zig zag trenches the splintered chaos chain of peasants huts the angular dynamics of war machinery all lema leal themselves to sir Muir heads beads super dative dry point there muel ol of the painters mass and color I 1 ii an up to date war no gay plunie plumes bright uniforms and snorting black horses there are instead the ua sullen monochromes of desolation the inert black and white of sharply graven ruin there were plenty of bands playing when sir Moil head was u appointed official war artist is in 1916 ile he painted boldly or etched deeply his bis pictures for the war museum for which he be later became trustee much was made not only of the importance of a minutely observed pictorial record of the war but of the availability ity of so great an artist to render its I 1 ull full aesthetic values this time there is a tory announcement only a few lines of sir appoint ap ment not even in the graphic arts is war getting its accustomed fanfare this writer remembers well sit Muir heads masterful drawings in the studio of an earlier lierl and happier day mellow arch architectural tec tural studies or placid landscape in in english byways where no air raid siren ever sounded lie he was the son of a glasgow journalist studying art at a night school it was in 1901 that he went to england to become an honorary doctor of letters at oxford and one of the roost most famous artists of england he has exhibited to in NOT new york several times and has an enthusiastic thusia following among critics critic and the american art public |