DOI Heft:
No. 181 (March, 1912)
DOI Artikel:Marke, G. Mortimer: The twenty-seventh annual exhibition of the Architectural League of New York
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43449#0368
Exhibition of the Avchitectural League of New York
FRANCIS THE FIRST HUNTING PARTY
A DECORATIVE PANEL
BY ANDREW T. SCHWARTZ
r I 5 HE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL
EXHIBITION OF THE ARCHI-
TECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW
JL YORK
BY G. MORTIMER MARKE
This season, to a degree even more marked
than in previous years, the exhibition of the Archi-
tectural League of New York might well be called
an exhibition of “Architecture and the Allied
Arts.” More space than ever before is given to
cartoons for stained glass, panels for mural deco-
ration and to sculpture, both monumental and
informal, while there are also a good many ex-
hibits, such as book plates, whose place in archi-
tecture is, to say the least, problematical.
It is difficult to forecast exactly where this trend
toward diversity will lead—whether the serious
study of architecture will be weakened by digres-
sions in the allied arts, or whether architectural
design will become more fully developed and gen-
erally enriched through a keener appreciation of
the importance of stained glass, sculpture, mural
decorations and tapestries. That the latter should
be the case is eminently in accord with the theories
to teachings of Walter Crane, than whom it were
hard to cite a better theorist or more practical
teacher.
It certainly seems fitting that the fully equipped
architect should be versed in an intelligent knowl-
edge and a technical as well as an esthetic appre-
ciation of the allied arts, for he must call in the
painter and the sculptor to add the finishing touch
to his own work, but must, however, be able to talk
to them in their own language. Nor is it less desir-
able for the painter and the sculptor to acquire a
sympathetic understanding with the architect.
For the furtherance of this collaboration there
is an annual prize for the design of a specified pro-
ject—this year A Chimney Piece for a Town
Hall, at the End of an Assembly Room—estab-
lished by Mrs. S. P. Avery, to be awarded to an
architect, sculptor and mural painter working in
conjunction. Many interesting designs have been
developed in this way, with a promise of the ulti-
mate elimination of the frequent cross-purposes
often apparent in such conjunctive work.
In this year’s collaborative competition com-
ment may be made on the award of the
prize. Perhaps the splendid design of the man-
STUDY FOR A
DECORATION
BY EDWIN H.
BLASHFIELD
XIV
FRANCIS THE FIRST HUNTING PARTY
A DECORATIVE PANEL
BY ANDREW T. SCHWARTZ
r I 5 HE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL
EXHIBITION OF THE ARCHI-
TECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW
JL YORK
BY G. MORTIMER MARKE
This season, to a degree even more marked
than in previous years, the exhibition of the Archi-
tectural League of New York might well be called
an exhibition of “Architecture and the Allied
Arts.” More space than ever before is given to
cartoons for stained glass, panels for mural deco-
ration and to sculpture, both monumental and
informal, while there are also a good many ex-
hibits, such as book plates, whose place in archi-
tecture is, to say the least, problematical.
It is difficult to forecast exactly where this trend
toward diversity will lead—whether the serious
study of architecture will be weakened by digres-
sions in the allied arts, or whether architectural
design will become more fully developed and gen-
erally enriched through a keener appreciation of
the importance of stained glass, sculpture, mural
decorations and tapestries. That the latter should
be the case is eminently in accord with the theories
to teachings of Walter Crane, than whom it were
hard to cite a better theorist or more practical
teacher.
It certainly seems fitting that the fully equipped
architect should be versed in an intelligent knowl-
edge and a technical as well as an esthetic appre-
ciation of the allied arts, for he must call in the
painter and the sculptor to add the finishing touch
to his own work, but must, however, be able to talk
to them in their own language. Nor is it less desir-
able for the painter and the sculptor to acquire a
sympathetic understanding with the architect.
For the furtherance of this collaboration there
is an annual prize for the design of a specified pro-
ject—this year A Chimney Piece for a Town
Hall, at the End of an Assembly Room—estab-
lished by Mrs. S. P. Avery, to be awarded to an
architect, sculptor and mural painter working in
conjunction. Many interesting designs have been
developed in this way, with a promise of the ulti-
mate elimination of the frequent cross-purposes
often apparent in such conjunctive work.
In this year’s collaborative competition com-
ment may be made on the award of the
prize. Perhaps the splendid design of the man-
STUDY FOR A
DECORATION
BY EDWIN H.
BLASHFIELD
XIV