DOI Heft:
No. 103 (September, 1905)
DOI Artikel:Pal's wall paper designs for the children's room
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26960#0370
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ourselves kneedeep in the nursery. Kenneth
Grahame leads a long procession of tellers of
stories of childhood fancy. Autobiographies of
real boys, annals of the kindergarten, studies of
the child mind like Bretherton's, and adaptations
of Plato's schemes for delegating parental authority
like Cooper's, fill the shelves or rather stir the air
with the turning of multitudinous pages. Letters
have become a spring-time tale authorized by your
granddaughter. The dye, of course, has mastered
the illustrator's hand too. We once railed at the
"Young Person" as having too blighting an influ-
ence on the freedom of artistic expression. We
appear now to be busy with some unanimity in
celebrating and applauding the Very Young Person.
One of the cleverest achievements recently in this
cult of the Very Young Person is the work of the
artist who goes by the name of Pal in adapting a
design of Mr. Joseph P. McHugh for wall paper
for the children's room. Mr. McHugh felt that
there was a demand for a nursery frieze of a better
artistic quality than the several Noah's Ark and
Mother Goose prints that had been popular. Such
things did all very well in their day; but children
grow more exacting. It was intended to produce
something superior to the Aldin and Hassall frieze
with which Mr. McHugh engaged the attention of
artists and lovers of children five years ago. The
work was to be better in design, more refined in
colour. The subject was to have a more graceful
appeal. Mr. McHugh would have it understood
that the stirring adventures of Pierrot, Harlequin,
and Columbine and their friends are a bit of old
French folk lore. We are not sure that we have ever
come upon just this tale before, but then we are by
no means ready to speak ex-cat/? gffm on old French
folk lore.
Mr. McHugh tried to interest designers of
papers abroad in his idea without much success.
Now the series is already finding a lively introduc
tion across the sea after having struck the popular
fancy here. Henri Fiquet, of Paris, made the pre-
liminary sketches from the designs. Then Pal was
thought of.
Pal is short for Paleologue. Ancestors of the
family, Pal avers, formerly ruled the Byzantine
Empire. Pal himself is a prince and the younger
brother of Prince Gregoire, of Roumania. He was
educated in the military college of St. Cyr, where
he made up his mind that the crayon was more to
his liking than the sword. He and his work are
well known in Paris and London. Recently he
came to this country, with the good-humoured
announcement that he was to write a book about
III. LA DANSE
BY PAL
IV. LA SURPRISE BY PAL
V. FUITE DU LAPIN
BY PAL
VI. FUREUR D'ARLEQUIN
BY PAL
LXXIX
ourselves kneedeep in the nursery. Kenneth
Grahame leads a long procession of tellers of
stories of childhood fancy. Autobiographies of
real boys, annals of the kindergarten, studies of
the child mind like Bretherton's, and adaptations
of Plato's schemes for delegating parental authority
like Cooper's, fill the shelves or rather stir the air
with the turning of multitudinous pages. Letters
have become a spring-time tale authorized by your
granddaughter. The dye, of course, has mastered
the illustrator's hand too. We once railed at the
"Young Person" as having too blighting an influ-
ence on the freedom of artistic expression. We
appear now to be busy with some unanimity in
celebrating and applauding the Very Young Person.
One of the cleverest achievements recently in this
cult of the Very Young Person is the work of the
artist who goes by the name of Pal in adapting a
design of Mr. Joseph P. McHugh for wall paper
for the children's room. Mr. McHugh felt that
there was a demand for a nursery frieze of a better
artistic quality than the several Noah's Ark and
Mother Goose prints that had been popular. Such
things did all very well in their day; but children
grow more exacting. It was intended to produce
something superior to the Aldin and Hassall frieze
with which Mr. McHugh engaged the attention of
artists and lovers of children five years ago. The
work was to be better in design, more refined in
colour. The subject was to have a more graceful
appeal. Mr. McHugh would have it understood
that the stirring adventures of Pierrot, Harlequin,
and Columbine and their friends are a bit of old
French folk lore. We are not sure that we have ever
come upon just this tale before, but then we are by
no means ready to speak ex-cat/? gffm on old French
folk lore.
Mr. McHugh tried to interest designers of
papers abroad in his idea without much success.
Now the series is already finding a lively introduc
tion across the sea after having struck the popular
fancy here. Henri Fiquet, of Paris, made the pre-
liminary sketches from the designs. Then Pal was
thought of.
Pal is short for Paleologue. Ancestors of the
family, Pal avers, formerly ruled the Byzantine
Empire. Pal himself is a prince and the younger
brother of Prince Gregoire, of Roumania. He was
educated in the military college of St. Cyr, where
he made up his mind that the crayon was more to
his liking than the sword. He and his work are
well known in Paris and London. Recently he
came to this country, with the good-humoured
announcement that he was to write a book about
III. LA DANSE
BY PAL
IV. LA SURPRISE BY PAL
V. FUITE DU LAPIN
BY PAL
VI. FUREUR D'ARLEQUIN
BY PAL
LXXIX