International studio (26.1905)

been a pleasure to have
quoted from so good an
authority on the subject.


We are reproducing
some designs of Mr. W. S.
Hadaway's silver. When-
ever Mr. Hadaway ex-
hibits at an Arts and
Crafts or similar exhibi-
tion his work stands out
distinctively as that of a
silver-worker with a true
sense of design, and who

"THE BRICKLAYER'S ARMS, MANOR STREET" BY DOROTHY OSBORN

of colour. She retains this hold upon minute form,
and is successful, too, in giving us an
Public houses are often sordid things, but they
can make a nice scheme of colour, and in Mrs.
Osborn's art they always seem quite pleasant
places. Her pleasant manner of painting turns
them into little places where might fairies come
to drink. Yet her work is elaborately careful in
its truth of intention; but it is the view of the
butterfly of these matters, laid down by Whistler
as the true artist's view of things. We think it is a
feminine quality, too, this content with the charm
of the outward appearance of places and things.
Certainly Mrs. Osborn justifies the standpoint.
We have not derived so much pleasure from many
more pretentious collections of sketches as we
derived from the exhibition of her little shops
held in the Ryder Gallery some time since.
The artist's frankly unassuming work, with its
delicacy and cleverness, was refreshing. The artist
supplemented the catalogue of her exhibition by
an essay of no little charm on the old shops of
Chelsea. Had our space permitted, it would have
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is a master of his craft.
Mr. Hadaway is not of
those who repeat them-
selves ; he goes forward;
so that every time we see
his designs it is with
pleasure. We like to
meet them in exhibi-
tions. The examples
that we give contain
many fine specimens of
that restraint which is so
valuable in emphasising
by contrast the parts of
the design which are
elaborated. This juxta-
position of severity and
elaborateness, the change
from undecorated to
decorated surface, is the
fascinating quality that
makes his design some-
thing more than mere

TABLESPOON IN, SILVER
AND ENAMEL BY W. S.
HADAWAY