DOI article:
West, W. K.: Some recent monumental sculpture by Sir George Frampton, R.A.
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Sir George Frampton, R.A.
RECUMBENT EFFIGY OF THE EIGHTH DUKE OF ARGYLL IN IONA CATHEDRAL. BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, R.A.
has remained flexible and spontaneous, and it
reflects in a very interesting way the response of
his mind to the stimulus of fresh impressions.
Even in those applications of sculpture which have
necessarily to be formal in character, even in those
cases where he has to make his work accessory
and complementary to that of the architect, he
does not adopt aury stereotyped manner; he deals
with each motive as the occasion seems to demand,
and uses each opportunity in the way that seems
to suit best his personal preferences as an artist.
This capacity for adapting himself to the special
needs of the work which he is called upon to
produce is illustrated very definitely in the ex-
amples of his more recent accomplishment which
have been selected for reproduction here. The
wall tablets particularly are instructive as instances
of the judicious varying of architectural forms and of
decorative ingenuity rightly exercised in the treat-
ment of things in which necessarily certain well-
marked limitations have to be respected. He has
not attempted any extravagant departures from
the formality which is desirable in this type of
design, he has not substituted eccentricity for
rational decoration, but while exercising a due
measure of artistic restraint he has missed none of
TABLET AT THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART IN HONOUR OF SIR JAMES FLEMING, CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNORS
BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, R.A.
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RECUMBENT EFFIGY OF THE EIGHTH DUKE OF ARGYLL IN IONA CATHEDRAL. BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, R.A.
has remained flexible and spontaneous, and it
reflects in a very interesting way the response of
his mind to the stimulus of fresh impressions.
Even in those applications of sculpture which have
necessarily to be formal in character, even in those
cases where he has to make his work accessory
and complementary to that of the architect, he
does not adopt aury stereotyped manner; he deals
with each motive as the occasion seems to demand,
and uses each opportunity in the way that seems
to suit best his personal preferences as an artist.
This capacity for adapting himself to the special
needs of the work which he is called upon to
produce is illustrated very definitely in the ex-
amples of his more recent accomplishment which
have been selected for reproduction here. The
wall tablets particularly are instructive as instances
of the judicious varying of architectural forms and of
decorative ingenuity rightly exercised in the treat-
ment of things in which necessarily certain well-
marked limitations have to be respected. He has
not attempted any extravagant departures from
the formality which is desirable in this type of
design, he has not substituted eccentricity for
rational decoration, but while exercising a due
measure of artistic restraint he has missed none of
TABLET AT THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART IN HONOUR OF SIR JAMES FLEMING, CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNORS
BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, R.A.
39