DOI issue:
Nr. 174 (August, 1911)
DOI article:Some decorative panels by George Sheringham
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43447#0191
Decorative Panels by George Sheringham
SOME DECORATIVE PANELS BY
GEORGE SHERINGHAM.
The series of wall panels executed by Mr.
George Sheringham, for a room in the country
house of His Honour Judge Evans, deserves to be
noted as an unusually attractive example of well-
considered decorative work. During the past two
or three years Mr. Sheringham has made for
himself a very definite place among the younger
artists who have the inclination and the capacity
to deal with problems of decoration; and by the
admirable quality of his achievement he has
gained the sincere approval of those art lovers who
can appreciate the value of a personal outlook
and manner of expression in art practice. He has,
indeed, a very real talent as a designer; his
originality is unquestionable and his decorative
sense is guided by the soundest taste, and he has
already, young as he is, acquired a wonderfully
sure command over refinements of technical prac-
tice. Hitherto, he has chiefly confined himself to
things on a comparatively small scale, to fans and
small fanciful compositions which have offered him
scope for the display of his power as a colourist and
as a sensitive and graceful draughtsman; and in
his management of work of this character—which
demands the greatest possible daintiness of inven-
tion and delicacy of handling—he has proved
himself to be quite exceptionally accomplished.
These panels, however, were scarcely capable ot
the same kind of treatment that could appropriately
be applied to his smaller paintings; they are fairly
large and they have called for greater breadth of
execution as well as a bigger view of decorative
responsibilities. But he has been quite equal to
DECORATIVE PANELS PAINTED IN WATER-COLOUR ON SILK BY GEORGE SHERINGHAM
( / he property of His Honmtr Judge Evans)
136
the occasion; he has
realised fully how to ex-
pand his methods so as
to secure the proper re-
lation between the scale
of his handling and the
space he had to fill, and
he has avoided with ex-
cellent judgment any
tendency towards small-
ness of manner or trivi-
ality of detail. The way
in which the panels are
imagined, their quaint-
ness of design and their
subtlety of colour, and
particularly their mas-
culine simplicity, can be
sincerely commended;
to the manner in
which they have been
thought out they owe
much of their fascina-
tion.
But as technical ex-
amples, also, they are
of very real interest.
They are painted on
silk in water-colour, and
Mr. Sheringham has
overcome with note-
worthy skill the diffi-
culties which are
inevitable in the ap-
plication of the water-
colour medium on
SOME DECORATIVE PANELS BY
GEORGE SHERINGHAM.
The series of wall panels executed by Mr.
George Sheringham, for a room in the country
house of His Honour Judge Evans, deserves to be
noted as an unusually attractive example of well-
considered decorative work. During the past two
or three years Mr. Sheringham has made for
himself a very definite place among the younger
artists who have the inclination and the capacity
to deal with problems of decoration; and by the
admirable quality of his achievement he has
gained the sincere approval of those art lovers who
can appreciate the value of a personal outlook
and manner of expression in art practice. He has,
indeed, a very real talent as a designer; his
originality is unquestionable and his decorative
sense is guided by the soundest taste, and he has
already, young as he is, acquired a wonderfully
sure command over refinements of technical prac-
tice. Hitherto, he has chiefly confined himself to
things on a comparatively small scale, to fans and
small fanciful compositions which have offered him
scope for the display of his power as a colourist and
as a sensitive and graceful draughtsman; and in
his management of work of this character—which
demands the greatest possible daintiness of inven-
tion and delicacy of handling—he has proved
himself to be quite exceptionally accomplished.
These panels, however, were scarcely capable ot
the same kind of treatment that could appropriately
be applied to his smaller paintings; they are fairly
large and they have called for greater breadth of
execution as well as a bigger view of decorative
responsibilities. But he has been quite equal to
DECORATIVE PANELS PAINTED IN WATER-COLOUR ON SILK BY GEORGE SHERINGHAM
( / he property of His Honmtr Judge Evans)
136
the occasion; he has
realised fully how to ex-
pand his methods so as
to secure the proper re-
lation between the scale
of his handling and the
space he had to fill, and
he has avoided with ex-
cellent judgment any
tendency towards small-
ness of manner or trivi-
ality of detail. The way
in which the panels are
imagined, their quaint-
ness of design and their
subtlety of colour, and
particularly their mas-
culine simplicity, can be
sincerely commended;
to the manner in
which they have been
thought out they owe
much of their fascina-
tion.
But as technical ex-
amples, also, they are
of very real interest.
They are painted on
silk in water-colour, and
Mr. Sheringham has
overcome with note-
worthy skill the diffi-
culties which are
inevitable in the ap-
plication of the water-
colour medium on