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DOI Artikel:Lovett, Eva: Colored terra cotta on recent buildings
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Colored Terra Cotta
TERRA COTTA
ORNAMENT
There is still a question whether so much color
will be too glaring when the building is completed,
in which case the more brilliant tints are to be
“sand-blasted” to soften the high color and har-
monize the whole scheme.
Other good examples of fine color work in terra-
cotta are two Della Robbia panels, one from the
Parochial School, Brookline, Mass., and the other
for the Missionary Society of the Most Holy Re-
deemer of the State of New York, at Esopus, N. Y.
These, as well as the terra cotta of the Brooklyn
Academy, were made at the Atlantic Terra Cotta
Works.
Striking color effects are displayed on the ex-
terior of the new church of St. Ambrose, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. The tinting is elaborate, with
broad bands of green and yellow, and many medal-
lions of the blue and white of Della Robbia, and
string pieces of patterns of many colors, and in-
numerable colored ornaments along the eaves and
surrounding the windows. The walls are of cream
Henry F. W. Ganz, whose
book of “Hints” on painting,
composition, landscape work
and etching we have formerly
noted, has issued a similar
volume of useful suggestions,
“Practical Hints on Modeling,
Design and Mural Decora-
tion” (J. B. Lippincott Com-
pany, $1.00 net). The book is fully illustrated and
contains chapters on fresco, mosaic, sgraffito,
stained glass, painted glass, qualities of clay, etc.
A most attractive book from the Davis Press,
Worcester, Mass., is entitled “The Furnishing of
a Modest Home.” It is written by Fred Hamilton
Daniels, a director of drawing in Massachusetts
public schools, and carries an introduction by Henry
Turner Bailey, editor of the School Arts Book.
Chapters on the walls and floor and pictures and
casts will be found especially suggestive.
The Berlin Photographic Company has held
an exhibition of reproductions of the works of
Rembrandt. The subjects were arranged chrono-
logically, showing the course of his development.
The exhibition had been planned for the 300th
anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, but was post-
poned, as at the time some of his important works
were not obtainable in reproduction.
CONKLING-ARMSTRONG
TERRA COTTA COMPANY
brick. An instance of an ex-
cellent use of color is the ex-
terior of the Wetzel Building,
East Forty-fourth Street, New
York, the face of which is cov-
ered with a pattern in subdued
colors of unglazed terra cotta.
Terra cotta of brilliant
colors has been used freely
for the inner decoration of
many new buildings, among
them the New Amsterdam
theater, New York; the ter-
minals of the New York Sub-
way and of the new McAdoo
tunnels. Fine work in vari-
ously colored terra cotta from
the Conkling-Armstrong Com-
pany is introduced in the
Maryland Institute, of Balti-
more, Md., where there are
festoons of flowers and fruit
in natural tints. E. L.
cxiv
TERRA COTTA
ORNAMENT
There is still a question whether so much color
will be too glaring when the building is completed,
in which case the more brilliant tints are to be
“sand-blasted” to soften the high color and har-
monize the whole scheme.
Other good examples of fine color work in terra-
cotta are two Della Robbia panels, one from the
Parochial School, Brookline, Mass., and the other
for the Missionary Society of the Most Holy Re-
deemer of the State of New York, at Esopus, N. Y.
These, as well as the terra cotta of the Brooklyn
Academy, were made at the Atlantic Terra Cotta
Works.
Striking color effects are displayed on the ex-
terior of the new church of St. Ambrose, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. The tinting is elaborate, with
broad bands of green and yellow, and many medal-
lions of the blue and white of Della Robbia, and
string pieces of patterns of many colors, and in-
numerable colored ornaments along the eaves and
surrounding the windows. The walls are of cream
Henry F. W. Ganz, whose
book of “Hints” on painting,
composition, landscape work
and etching we have formerly
noted, has issued a similar
volume of useful suggestions,
“Practical Hints on Modeling,
Design and Mural Decora-
tion” (J. B. Lippincott Com-
pany, $1.00 net). The book is fully illustrated and
contains chapters on fresco, mosaic, sgraffito,
stained glass, painted glass, qualities of clay, etc.
A most attractive book from the Davis Press,
Worcester, Mass., is entitled “The Furnishing of
a Modest Home.” It is written by Fred Hamilton
Daniels, a director of drawing in Massachusetts
public schools, and carries an introduction by Henry
Turner Bailey, editor of the School Arts Book.
Chapters on the walls and floor and pictures and
casts will be found especially suggestive.
The Berlin Photographic Company has held
an exhibition of reproductions of the works of
Rembrandt. The subjects were arranged chrono-
logically, showing the course of his development.
The exhibition had been planned for the 300th
anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, but was post-
poned, as at the time some of his important works
were not obtainable in reproduction.
CONKLING-ARMSTRONG
TERRA COTTA COMPANY
brick. An instance of an ex-
cellent use of color is the ex-
terior of the Wetzel Building,
East Forty-fourth Street, New
York, the face of which is cov-
ered with a pattern in subdued
colors of unglazed terra cotta.
Terra cotta of brilliant
colors has been used freely
for the inner decoration of
many new buildings, among
them the New Amsterdam
theater, New York; the ter-
minals of the New York Sub-
way and of the new McAdoo
tunnels. Fine work in vari-
ously colored terra cotta from
the Conkling-Armstrong Com-
pany is introduced in the
Maryland Institute, of Balti-
more, Md., where there are
festoons of flowers and fruit
in natural tints. E. L.
cxiv