International studio (35.1908)

The National Competition, igo8

FIGURE COMPOSIIION
tunities that suggest themselves of dealing with the
small examples of domestic ironwork do not seem to
have appealed to the craft-students, or, if they did,
the results of their efforts failed to find their way
into the exhibitions. The best piece of wrought-
iron work was the grille by Mr. Silas Paul, of Leeds.
Some good tiles were shown, although there was
nothing quite so fine in colour as the panel sent
last year by Mr. Albert Mountford, of Burslem. He,
however, showed again
some work of nice quality.
Other examples that at-
tracted in this section were
the red tiles, with lions and
lionesses in low relief, by
Mr. Harold C. Austwick.
of Leeds, and the green
and blue majolica tiles
shown respectively by Mr.
Frederick S. Harrop, of
Hanley, and Mr. George
H. Bearder, of Leeds.
In arranging an exhibition
of this kind the placing
of examples of stained
glass in positions in which
the light can shine through
them is always a difficult
matter, but the trouble
was ingeniously over-

come on this occasion,
and the panels from
Birmingham and Cam-
berwell were admirably
displayed. Birmingham
(Margaret Street), as in
other years, took the lead
in this section. Miss
Margaret A. Rope again
sent work that was good
in colour and design, and
Mr. Harry G. Rushbury,
a young student of seven-
teen, showed great promise
in his panel of The
Prodigal Son. More
attractive still was the work
of another Birmingham
student, Mr. Cyril Laven-
stein, whose panel of a
shepherd rescuing a strayed
sheep (p. 280) owes much
of its charm to its setting
in the middle of a space
of small leaded panes of slightly tinted glass. From
Mr. James H. Hogan of Camberwell came two
panels with full-length figures, decoratively treated,
of famous designers of the past—Alfred Stevens,
who was one of the first teachers appointed to the
original School of Design at Somerset House, and
William Morris, who was for years an examiner in
the National Art Competitions.
Mr. Frederick Carter, of the Polytechnic (Regent

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