DOI issue:
No. 96 (February, 1905)
DOI article:Studio talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26963#0457
Studio-Talk
LEADED GLASS DESIGNED BY ANDREW STODDART
EXECUTED BY NORMAN ROBINSON
which was restrained in design and useful. There
was a clever design for stained glass by Miss Emily
Ford, and cartoons for windows by Mr. Silvester
Sparrow of dignity and good design; but the best
of this kind of work was sent by Mr. Anning Bell,
whose work, with the original designs exhibited by
Mr. Walter Crane, and some of the books from
the Essex House, set that high standard of decora-
tion which is of such value to the less experienced
decorative artists who exhibit in these exhibitions.
L. S.
UBLIN. — When the Irish Arts and
Crafts Society was founded, now some
ten years ago, there was little evidence
of an awakening of the artistic spirit
amongst Irish designers and ciaftsmen. The
movement had its rise not, as in England, amongst
the craftsmen, but amongst a group of amateurs
and connoisseurs weary of the time worn conven-
tions of the Irish designer. Their first exhibition
was held in 1895.
The work at that first Arts and Crafts Exhibition
reflected very clearly the condition of Irish art
industries at the close of the nineteenth century.
Technical skill there was in plenty—the inherited
traditions of a race once famous in Europe for its
jewellery and metal-work, later for its plaster-work
and cabinet making.
Since that first exhibition the schools of art in
Ireland have come under the control of an Irish
Department, whose headquarters are in Dublin;
and the last year or two has seen a revival of
interest in the decorative arts and the starting
of several new enterprises. The Arts and Crafts
Exhibition held in Dublin last November illus-
trates these developments very fairly, though in
one important direction hardly so fully as one
would have wished. Quite the most noteworthy
event in the recent history of Irish arts and
“THE mother”: PANEL IN BY BEATRICE EI.VERY
COLOURED PLASTER
361
LEADED GLASS DESIGNED BY ANDREW STODDART
EXECUTED BY NORMAN ROBINSON
which was restrained in design and useful. There
was a clever design for stained glass by Miss Emily
Ford, and cartoons for windows by Mr. Silvester
Sparrow of dignity and good design; but the best
of this kind of work was sent by Mr. Anning Bell,
whose work, with the original designs exhibited by
Mr. Walter Crane, and some of the books from
the Essex House, set that high standard of decora-
tion which is of such value to the less experienced
decorative artists who exhibit in these exhibitions.
L. S.
UBLIN. — When the Irish Arts and
Crafts Society was founded, now some
ten years ago, there was little evidence
of an awakening of the artistic spirit
amongst Irish designers and ciaftsmen. The
movement had its rise not, as in England, amongst
the craftsmen, but amongst a group of amateurs
and connoisseurs weary of the time worn conven-
tions of the Irish designer. Their first exhibition
was held in 1895.
The work at that first Arts and Crafts Exhibition
reflected very clearly the condition of Irish art
industries at the close of the nineteenth century.
Technical skill there was in plenty—the inherited
traditions of a race once famous in Europe for its
jewellery and metal-work, later for its plaster-work
and cabinet making.
Since that first exhibition the schools of art in
Ireland have come under the control of an Irish
Department, whose headquarters are in Dublin;
and the last year or two has seen a revival of
interest in the decorative arts and the starting
of several new enterprises. The Arts and Crafts
Exhibition held in Dublin last November illus-
trates these developments very fairly, though in
one important direction hardly so fully as one
would have wished. Quite the most noteworthy
event in the recent history of Irish arts and
“THE mother”: PANEL IN BY BEATRICE EI.VERY
COLOURED PLASTER
361