International studio (25.1905)

recently she has been awarded
the municipality's " travelling "
scholarship valued at ^*6o.
H. B. B.

energy, with powers of concentration and a
capacity and love for work which promises well
for the future, especially when further practice has
ensured her greater freedom with brush and clay.

The craft classes in which she has familiarised
herself with the character of treatment adapted to
the material to be employed have had valuable
influence in controlling within due limits an ex-
uberant imagination and a facility of design
applicable to a very varied range of decorative art.

Sculpture, stained glass, metal work, furniture,
jewellery, embroideries, black-and-white illustra-
tion, all show in her handling a strong personality,
combined with a fine and individual sense of
appropriateness.
Embroideries which Phcebe McLeish designs
and executes are particularly successful in attaining
a beautiful harmony of form and colour without
over-elaboration of detail and that waste of labour
so frequently noticeable in this branch of art.

EMBROIDERED TEA-COSY

BY PHCEBE MCLEISH

-^ UBLIN.—Side by side
j \ with the Arts and Crafts
# movement there is
^ another, even more im-
portant, which has been attracting a
great deal of attention during the
past few weeks. I refer to the pro-
posal to establish a gallery of modern
pictures in Dublin. The loan ex-
hibition organised by Mr. Hugh
Lane of works by the great French
impressionists—Manet, Monet,
Renoir, and their school—and by
earlier masters, like Constable,
Rousseau, Corot, and Isabey ; and

In sculpture Miss McLeish has made rapid
progress in modelling from life, evincing a fine
feeling for line and a just appreciation of mass
insuring a distinction of style in all the work
she has produced.
During the last two years Miss McLeish has
held a City scholarship of ^30 per annum, and

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