DOI Heft:
No. 56 (October, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Wood, Esther: The national competition, 1901
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22775#0366
The National Competition
composition, all are more suited to the material
for which they are meant.
There is still a lack of individual development in
the field of black-and-white illustration. Some of
the best students go through a phase of imitative
Celticism, if we may so describe it; and on the
principle that we must all begin by imitating some-
body or other this must not be too unkindly
discouraged. The work of Allan Inglis (Dundee)
The Lambeth students again distinguish them-
selves in designs for colour-prints, and those of
Daisy Hansford, Gertrude Steel, and Ruth Burgess
deserve special praise. The fact of their charm
lying chiefly in their colour debars them from
ordinary reproduction, but the drawing in nearly
all is substantially good. Unfortunately, side
by side with these really delightful and work-
manlike examples of the craft, one sees a tendency
towards colour-prints of
an inferior kind, both
prolific and slovenly, and
threatening to lower the
standard here in a manner
that should be sternly
repressed. The work of
Gertrude Steel, it should
be said, is equally admirable
in colour-print designing
and in black-and-white,
Janet Simpson, of the same
school (Lambeth), also
shows excellent feeling for
composition in black-and-
white, though her drawing
is not quite above reproach.
Near this group are seen a
very successful little series of
stencilled Christmas cards
by Florence Laverock
(Liverpool), which affords
one of the best examples
promises to outlive these
temporary influences and
to show fine qualities of
its own, while that of
Harry Wanless (Scar-
borough) has already done
so, and his decorative
drawings and other de-
signs show a steady in-
crease of power, especially
those intended for colour
prints—a department
which gains in interest
every year. The black-
and-white studies of
Arthur G. Watts (New
Cross) show a good sense
of decorative line in land-
scape, and his sea-coast
drawings of East Anglian
character are very pleasant.
TOOLED LEATHER BINDING
BY WILLIAM TERRY (CAMBERWELL)
267
composition, all are more suited to the material
for which they are meant.
There is still a lack of individual development in
the field of black-and-white illustration. Some of
the best students go through a phase of imitative
Celticism, if we may so describe it; and on the
principle that we must all begin by imitating some-
body or other this must not be too unkindly
discouraged. The work of Allan Inglis (Dundee)
The Lambeth students again distinguish them-
selves in designs for colour-prints, and those of
Daisy Hansford, Gertrude Steel, and Ruth Burgess
deserve special praise. The fact of their charm
lying chiefly in their colour debars them from
ordinary reproduction, but the drawing in nearly
all is substantially good. Unfortunately, side
by side with these really delightful and work-
manlike examples of the craft, one sees a tendency
towards colour-prints of
an inferior kind, both
prolific and slovenly, and
threatening to lower the
standard here in a manner
that should be sternly
repressed. The work of
Gertrude Steel, it should
be said, is equally admirable
in colour-print designing
and in black-and-white,
Janet Simpson, of the same
school (Lambeth), also
shows excellent feeling for
composition in black-and-
white, though her drawing
is not quite above reproach.
Near this group are seen a
very successful little series of
stencilled Christmas cards
by Florence Laverock
(Liverpool), which affords
one of the best examples
promises to outlive these
temporary influences and
to show fine qualities of
its own, while that of
Harry Wanless (Scar-
borough) has already done
so, and his decorative
drawings and other de-
signs show a steady in-
crease of power, especially
those intended for colour
prints—a department
which gains in interest
every year. The black-
and-white studies of
Arthur G. Watts (New
Cross) show a good sense
of decorative line in land-
scape, and his sea-coast
drawings of East Anglian
character are very pleasant.
TOOLED LEATHER BINDING
BY WILLIAM TERRY (CAMBERWELL)
267