DOI Heft:
No. 7 (October, 1893)
DOI Artikel:Vallance, Aymer: The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society at the New Gallery, 1893
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0028
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1893
exhibit offered by Mr. George Frampton. Nothing
quite so captivating in the frankly Pagan beauty
of its modernity as his coloured bas-relief frieze
for a chancel ceiling has been offered to us in
recent years. The two sections of frieze shown
offer alternative schemes of colour, of which that
on the right-hand side, daring as it is in its glow
of nameless reds, seems to me the more satis-
factory. The sketch design (page 8) for the
cove of the same chancel strikes a more religious
note, but is to the full as original in its blend-
ing of the not dissimilar spirits of Italy of the
sixteenth and England of the nineteenth cen-
tury. The same artist's imaginative low-relief, The
Vision (page 9), which hangs below, I liked
infinitely better as it appeared in last season's
Academy in its virginity of spotless plaster. The
colour, deft as is its scheme, seems to rob the face
of half its imaginative mysticism.
More directly stylistic, but no 'less personal, is
the coloured relief by Mr. R. Arming Bell (page 21)
fountain in bronze and italian marble.
by george w. wilson, executed
by roger dawson & co., ltd.
note of this bit of nineteenth-century
magnificence, however, is rather the
thoughtful knowledge which pervades it
to its minutest detail, than the perfec-
tion in such detail of any one feature.
I am sorry Mr. Jack, who is respons-
ible for the chimney-piece (page 20)
which stands in the opposite corner as
companion to that of Mr. Wilson's, was
so ill-advised as to exhibit it with the
over-mantel. Apart from this uneasy
and painfully naturalistic treatment of
flying gulls, there is much to commend
in the quiet unostentation of the chim-
ney-piece proper and the iron grate it
houses, while the same sobriety charac-
terises the inlaid marble mantel of Mr.
Lethaby on this page, which finds a place
in the West Gallery—a sobriety, how-
ever, which is somewhat marred by the
violence of the contrast in the parti-
coloured marbles on which alone it relies
for decorative effect. It is difficult to
praise, even in terms of hesitancy, the
chimney-piece in painted wood by Mr.
L. A. Shuffrey in the Central Hall, though
its bas-reliefs by Mr. Stephen Webb are
at least unobjectionable. As one stands marble chimney-piece and grate, designed by w. r. lethaby.
in the Central Hall, however, one is mantelpiece executed by farmer and brindley.
perhaps rendered hypercritical by the grate by longden and co.
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exhibit offered by Mr. George Frampton. Nothing
quite so captivating in the frankly Pagan beauty
of its modernity as his coloured bas-relief frieze
for a chancel ceiling has been offered to us in
recent years. The two sections of frieze shown
offer alternative schemes of colour, of which that
on the right-hand side, daring as it is in its glow
of nameless reds, seems to me the more satis-
factory. The sketch design (page 8) for the
cove of the same chancel strikes a more religious
note, but is to the full as original in its blend-
ing of the not dissimilar spirits of Italy of the
sixteenth and England of the nineteenth cen-
tury. The same artist's imaginative low-relief, The
Vision (page 9), which hangs below, I liked
infinitely better as it appeared in last season's
Academy in its virginity of spotless plaster. The
colour, deft as is its scheme, seems to rob the face
of half its imaginative mysticism.
More directly stylistic, but no 'less personal, is
the coloured relief by Mr. R. Arming Bell (page 21)
fountain in bronze and italian marble.
by george w. wilson, executed
by roger dawson & co., ltd.
note of this bit of nineteenth-century
magnificence, however, is rather the
thoughtful knowledge which pervades it
to its minutest detail, than the perfec-
tion in such detail of any one feature.
I am sorry Mr. Jack, who is respons-
ible for the chimney-piece (page 20)
which stands in the opposite corner as
companion to that of Mr. Wilson's, was
so ill-advised as to exhibit it with the
over-mantel. Apart from this uneasy
and painfully naturalistic treatment of
flying gulls, there is much to commend
in the quiet unostentation of the chim-
ney-piece proper and the iron grate it
houses, while the same sobriety charac-
terises the inlaid marble mantel of Mr.
Lethaby on this page, which finds a place
in the West Gallery—a sobriety, how-
ever, which is somewhat marred by the
violence of the contrast in the parti-
coloured marbles on which alone it relies
for decorative effect. It is difficult to
praise, even in terms of hesitancy, the
chimney-piece in painted wood by Mr.
L. A. Shuffrey in the Central Hall, though
its bas-reliefs by Mr. Stephen Webb are
at least unobjectionable. As one stands marble chimney-piece and grate, designed by w. r. lethaby.
in the Central Hall, however, one is mantelpiece executed by farmer and brindley.
perhaps rendered hypercritical by the grate by longden and co.
16