International studio (26.1905)

CASKET DESIGNED BY
W. ARMSTRONG DAVIDSON
EXECUTED BY PUPILS OF THE
GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART
The gallery consists of casts of the best
sculpture, quite austerely selected, of Egypt,
Assyria, Greece, Rome, Italy, France and
Germany, with sections devoted to Celtic
sculpture and to the very important subject
of lettering, which has been somewhat neg-
lected by the local " monumental mason."

The statues are arranged in a central
court, supported by eighteen pillars of divers
granites, and in adjoining rooms. Great
attention has been paid to the lighting of the
galleries, inverted arc lamps being used (for
the first time in Scotland). The walls are
hung with a delicate green cloth. Altogether
the gallery is a little gem. To those who
believe in the possibilities of granite as a

medium for the sculptor, and who decline to regard
marble as the only medium, the Sculpture Gallery
ranks not merely as artistic, but as a great com-
mercial asset to the Granite City. But for the
daring and inspiring enthusiasm of one man it
would still be z'?z J. M. B.
LASGOW. — The Glasgow School of
H Art has recently had the honour of
W receiving two important commissions
^to execute. In December last, owing
to the death of the chief inspector for Scotland,
Dr. Stewart, his second in command, Mr. Scougal,
was transferred from Glasgow to Edinburgh. To
mark their sense of the value of Mr. Scougal's
work, the educationists of the West of Scotland,
lay and professional, united to give a banquet in
his honour, and, further, as a souvenir of his
sojourn in the west, it was decided to present him


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