DOI Heft:
No. 327 (June 1920)
DOI Artikel:Taylor, Horace: The poster revival, [1]: Mr. E. McKnight Kauffer
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0153
STUDIO-TALK
LONDON GROUP
EXHIBITION POSTER
DESIGNED BY E.
MCKNIGHT KAUFFER
any other country, we are far behind the
rest of Europe in the quality of the designs.
In Switzerland last year you could find
scarcely more than one poster out of
twenty or so that was designed by the
ordinary mechanic innocent of art who
seems to be responsible for 90 per cent, of
poster work over here. There, of course,
artists do not receive the extravagant prices
for easel-pictures that obtain here, and so
they are not too proud to design posters.
If only our manufacturers cared to insist
on good designs, there can be little doubt
that the artists would be forthcoming. 0
Horace Taylor
STUDIO-TALK.
(From our own Correspondents.)
LONDON.—At the newly opened Dorien
Leigh Galleries in Bruton Street an
exhibition is being held this month of recent
work by Mr. Gordon Craig—stage designs,
etchings, etc. We reproduce below a choice
little etching of his, and hope to refer more
fully to his work in a subsequent issue. 0
In ** The Studio Year-Book of Decora-
tive Art '' for last year some of Miss G.
M. Parnell's pottery figures in the Chelsea
manner were illustrated, and we now have
pleasure in reproducing (p. 148) some fur-
ther examples of them. Miss May Kimber,
the author of the decorative water-colour
reproduced on page 149, is chiefly known by
her charming essays in illuminated lettering
which form an interesting feature of the ex-
hibitions of the Royal Society of Miniature
Painters, of which she is an Associate. The
casket and tea-caddy by Miss Legge, also
illustrated, make one wish that more room
could be found for examples of decorative
metal work like this at the Royal Academy.
The catalogue of this year's Academy
exhibition is remarkable for the number of
names in the list of Associates to which the
title “ R.A. Elect " is added. There are no
less than twelve, and two of them—those of
Mr. Brangwyn and Sir William Orpen—
appeared in last year's catalogue with the
same designation. Its reappearance means,
we presume," that they have not yet com-
plied with Article III of the u Instru-
“ THE DRAMA/' ETCHING
BY E. GORDON CRAIG
(DORIEN LEIGH GALLERIES)
147
LONDON GROUP
EXHIBITION POSTER
DESIGNED BY E.
MCKNIGHT KAUFFER
any other country, we are far behind the
rest of Europe in the quality of the designs.
In Switzerland last year you could find
scarcely more than one poster out of
twenty or so that was designed by the
ordinary mechanic innocent of art who
seems to be responsible for 90 per cent, of
poster work over here. There, of course,
artists do not receive the extravagant prices
for easel-pictures that obtain here, and so
they are not too proud to design posters.
If only our manufacturers cared to insist
on good designs, there can be little doubt
that the artists would be forthcoming. 0
Horace Taylor
STUDIO-TALK.
(From our own Correspondents.)
LONDON.—At the newly opened Dorien
Leigh Galleries in Bruton Street an
exhibition is being held this month of recent
work by Mr. Gordon Craig—stage designs,
etchings, etc. We reproduce below a choice
little etching of his, and hope to refer more
fully to his work in a subsequent issue. 0
In ** The Studio Year-Book of Decora-
tive Art '' for last year some of Miss G.
M. Parnell's pottery figures in the Chelsea
manner were illustrated, and we now have
pleasure in reproducing (p. 148) some fur-
ther examples of them. Miss May Kimber,
the author of the decorative water-colour
reproduced on page 149, is chiefly known by
her charming essays in illuminated lettering
which form an interesting feature of the ex-
hibitions of the Royal Society of Miniature
Painters, of which she is an Associate. The
casket and tea-caddy by Miss Legge, also
illustrated, make one wish that more room
could be found for examples of decorative
metal work like this at the Royal Academy.
The catalogue of this year's Academy
exhibition is remarkable for the number of
names in the list of Associates to which the
title “ R.A. Elect " is added. There are no
less than twelve, and two of them—those of
Mr. Brangwyn and Sir William Orpen—
appeared in last year's catalogue with the
same designation. Its reappearance means,
we presume," that they have not yet com-
plied with Article III of the u Instru-
“ THE DRAMA/' ETCHING
BY E. GORDON CRAIG
(DORIEN LEIGH GALLERIES)
147