Studio: international art (39.1907)

Mr. G. P. Bankarfs Plaster Work

OF SOME RECENT
PLASTER WORK BY
MR. G. P. BANKART.
BY AYMER VALLANCE.

As recently as January, 1903, Mr.
Ernest Radford contributed to the pages
of The Studio so excellent an article
on the subject of Mr. Bankart's plaster
decoration that it might be thought there
was left no more to say about it worth the
saying. However, a continuance of work
on the artist's part implies also an increase
of experience, and perhaps a wider out-
look too, and therefore may well call for
some further notice. Now, for the sake
of any readers who happen not to have
had the advantage of reading Mr. Radford's
paper, it may be useful just to repeat, at
the outset, that of the two methods, the
Italian, known as stucco dttro, and the
other, the English, which deals with soft
plaster pure and simple, the latter is the
one practised by Mr. Bankart.
"greystoke," near Warwick p. morley horder, architecx In plastering, as in every other craft, the

one essential test and condition of good
April nth, 1907. A number of eminent men, work is a sympathetic appreciation of the material,
representing the artistic, literary, and scientific with all its limitations and capabilities. And this
organisations and institutions of the world, will knowledge can be gained in two ways only : firstly,
be present at the dedication of the building, by reference to original documents, whereby I mean
and the international exhibition will be an im- not so much the perusal of treatises of authorities,
portant feature of the occasion, and an event living or dead, as I mean diligent observation ot
of commanding distinction in the year's history every available specimen of old work that the
of art. - student can manage to encounter; and, secondly,

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p. morley horder, architect