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International studio — 60.1916/​1917

DOI issue:
Nr. 237 (November, 1916)
DOI article:
Harris, Julia Collier: National Society of Craftsmen: the work of the armfields
DOI Page / Citation link: 
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43463#0087

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National Society of Craftsmen


A GROUP OF ARMFIELD DESIGNS

city, painting its grandiose vistas on canvas and
in verse, and analyzing the signs of its aesthetic
development.
Their deductions were so interesting and so
optimistic that they are worth
quoting:
“We find,” said Mrs. Armfield,
“an astonishing development of
colour sense in this country. How
could it be otherwise, when your
air is so clear, your sun so bright,
and life so buoyant and gay? The
display of colour and its combina-
tions in the Fifth Avenue shops is
truly beautiful. Nowhere else have
we seen anything like it. And we
find many of the designs used on
your magazine covers to be of the
highest order of decoration. Your
country has a great future in art
development. The war has forced
it to become independent of Euro¬

pean influences, for a time at least, and this will
probably act as an impetus toward the develop-
ment of a truly national art, and, best of all, a
democratic art, which should appeal to and em-


THE INDIAN BLANKET DESIGNED BY CONSTANCE ARMFIELD

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