DOI Heft:
No. 373 (April 1924)
DOI Artikel:Handicrafts at the women artists' exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0219
HANDICRAFTS AT THE WOMEN
ARTISTS’ EXHIBITION. a a
THE inclusion of work by craftswomen
in such exhibitions as the one recently
held by the Society of Women Artists
indicates a changing attitude on the part
of the public towards the functions and
status of the applied arts, and must further
the just claims of these varied forms of
artistic expression to free and equal fellow-
ship with the work of painters and sculp-
tors. The handicraft exhibited in the Royal
Institute Galleries included achievements
of considerable merit and value, which
more than held their own in an exhibition
devoted primarily to pictures, and inci-
dentally formed a welcome and refreshing
oasis in a desert of, for the most part, dull
and superfluous canvases. One felt that
these craftworkers had definitely justified
themselves, which is more than could
truthfully be said of those responsible for
a large proportion of the paintings covering
the walls in such riotous profusion. The
production of a good piece of pottery or a
well-designed and executed embroidery is
a service rendered to the community,
whereas a feeble painting is merely a
menace to one’s peace of mind. All serious
“ giraffe family.” glaze
POTTERY BY STELLA CROFTS
(Society of Women Artists
Exhibition)
"ANNE OF CLEVES"
GLAZED EARTHENWARE
FIGURE BY T. L*PEACEY
(Society of Women Artists
Exhibition)
artists, whatever their medium, who seek
public recognition and support, become
thereby servants of the public, and their
work can only be judged from that stand-
point and its value estimated accordingly.
A number of women are devoting their
attention nowadays to pottery, with a
considerable degree of success, and some
pleasing examples of this ancient craft were
shown in this exhibition. Miss Stella
Crofts’s delightfully humorous animal
groups in glazed pottery are always virile
and distinguished in conception and
modelling. We illustrate her Giraffe Family,
which is typical of her highly individual
outlook. The glazed earthenware figure,
Anne of Cleeves, by Mrs. Lawson Peacey,
is a charming and expressive production in
which no false effort is made to evade the
limitations and controlling influence of the
material. Mrs. Louise Powell, whose lustre
pottery is well known to readers of The
Studio, was represented by several attrac-
tive specimens. We illustrate one of these
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ARTISTS’ EXHIBITION. a a
THE inclusion of work by craftswomen
in such exhibitions as the one recently
held by the Society of Women Artists
indicates a changing attitude on the part
of the public towards the functions and
status of the applied arts, and must further
the just claims of these varied forms of
artistic expression to free and equal fellow-
ship with the work of painters and sculp-
tors. The handicraft exhibited in the Royal
Institute Galleries included achievements
of considerable merit and value, which
more than held their own in an exhibition
devoted primarily to pictures, and inci-
dentally formed a welcome and refreshing
oasis in a desert of, for the most part, dull
and superfluous canvases. One felt that
these craftworkers had definitely justified
themselves, which is more than could
truthfully be said of those responsible for
a large proportion of the paintings covering
the walls in such riotous profusion. The
production of a good piece of pottery or a
well-designed and executed embroidery is
a service rendered to the community,
whereas a feeble painting is merely a
menace to one’s peace of mind. All serious
“ giraffe family.” glaze
POTTERY BY STELLA CROFTS
(Society of Women Artists
Exhibition)
"ANNE OF CLEVES"
GLAZED EARTHENWARE
FIGURE BY T. L*PEACEY
(Society of Women Artists
Exhibition)
artists, whatever their medium, who seek
public recognition and support, become
thereby servants of the public, and their
work can only be judged from that stand-
point and its value estimated accordingly.
A number of women are devoting their
attention nowadays to pottery, with a
considerable degree of success, and some
pleasing examples of this ancient craft were
shown in this exhibition. Miss Stella
Crofts’s delightfully humorous animal
groups in glazed pottery are always virile
and distinguished in conception and
modelling. We illustrate her Giraffe Family,
which is typical of her highly individual
outlook. The glazed earthenware figure,
Anne of Cleeves, by Mrs. Lawson Peacey,
is a charming and expressive production in
which no false effort is made to evade the
limitations and controlling influence of the
material. Mrs. Louise Powell, whose lustre
pottery is well known to readers of The
Studio, was represented by several attrac-
tive specimens. We illustrate one of these
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