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DOI Heft:
Nr. 238 (December, 1916)
DOI Artikel:
Whitley, William Thomas: Arts and crafts at the Royal Academy, 1
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: 
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43463#0128

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The Arts and Crafts Exhibition


“ PIPING FAUN/’

LEAD ROUNDEL BY PHOEBE STABLER

work to this object. The greatest effort has been
made in the decoration of the Third Gallery, the
large room in which the annual banquets of the
Royal Academy are held in times of peace. This
gallery has been so transformed as to be unrecog-
nisable, for even the roof is concealed by a
velarium. It is now a civic hall, elaborately
decorated, with the walls divided on either side
into four bays, each of which contains a large wall


painting. The piers between the bays are
adorned with low reliefs of mythological sub-
jects by Mr. Gilbert Bates simply modelled
and touched with gold, which keep their
places perfectly in the general scheme.
The paintings in the eight bays, some of
which are of a patriotic character, are by Mr.
F. E. Jackson, Mr. H. Payne, Mr. C. M. Gere,
Mr. J. E. Southall, Mr. Harold Speed,


GARDEN FIGURE IN LEAD
BY PHOEBE STABLER

Mr. Walter Bayes, Mr. Sydney Lee, and
Mr. Gerald Moira.
The Fourth Gallery is devoted chiefly
to the exhibition of examples of various
arts and industries, but it also contains
several small rooms decorated and furnished
by different artists and craftsmen. There
are more of these small rooms too in the
Fifth Gallery including one furnished by
Miss May Morris, and another by the
Women’s Guild of Art. In the same
Gallery are many examples of lettering,
printing and illumination. In the Sixth
Gallery is Mr. Augustus John’s huge
painting of Galway Peasants, in an alcove
 
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