Art
[THE NEW BURLINGTON GALLERIES. L.N.E. RAILWAY POSTERS.]
Tim London North-Eastern Railway's seventh exhibition of posters differs from its predecessors in that the majority of the designs which are exhibited have not yet appeared on the public hoardings. The Company are pursuing their usual Methods in getting the best of the poster artists to do their work for them, while other artists, not usually associated with poster work, have also contributed to this exhibition. Dame Laura Knight appears this year as a poster designer, for the first time, I believe. The types of poster vary from the simplified designs of Mr. Tom Purvis to the very elaborate pictures by Mr. Fred Taylor, while Marfurt, a Belgian, and Ladislas Freiwirth, an Hungarian artist, both adopt very modern styles in their representations of the Flying Scotsman. Mr. Frank Mason contributes no less than fifteen posters, of which the series of six representing various types of East Coast fishing craft are the most pleasing. He has a vary strong sea sense. Brussels, by Mr. Fred Taylor, with its flower market, is the best of his efforts, though all his designs are full of detailed work. Perhaps, from a conventional nosier
point of view; Mr. R. E. Higgins's The Continent via Harwich (No. 5), with its midinette and her bandbox, is the most satisfactory work shown, though Mr. Purvis' East Coast, where the design is reduced to its simplest elements, runs it very close. After viewing this exhibition one can imagine the day coming when our railway stations will take upon themselves a second function, namely that of picture galleries displaying the best commercial. art, and the L.N.E. Railway, by. setting themselves such a high artistic standard • for their posters, are bringing that day appreciably nearer.
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