Studio: international art (3.1894)

From Gallery, Studio, and Mart

The invitation cards on this page, designed by
members of the '91 Art Club, an association of
lady artists, were shown with others at a reception
some weeks ago. The voting, which was exercised
by all visitors, placed the design bearing the full
lettering first. This proved to be from the pen of
Miss E. C. Woodward ; two others, by her sister,
Miss Alice B. Woodward, are also reproduced.
Those who saw a very clever menu card for the Royal
Geological Society, and a programme for a smoking

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concert given by the Hon. Artillery Company, will
recognise Miss Alice Woodward's clever invention
and spirited touch. At the " At Home " for which
these cards were prepared, some half-hundred pic-
tures were shown, including several by Miss Anna
Nordgreen, the lady president. The modernity of
the work and its courage was very striking, and in
more than one canvas audacity was amply justified
by success. Some very graceful pieces of sculp-
ture were also shown.

A conspiracy of ugliness seems always to have
existed among those who have designed the com-
mon objects of the street. He would be a public
benefactor who should make the lamp-post a thing
of beauty, and there seems no special reason why
the pillar-post should be as ugly as it is. Surely its
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red vulgarity might be relieved by some parade of
appropriate heraldry. Meanwhile, the "fancy"
lamp-posts which have recently sprung up in dif-
ferent parts of London make one wary of proceed-
ing further. The boiler arrangement which balances
Mr. Gilbert's fountain is an excellent example of
how the thing should not be done.