DOI Heft:
No. 17 (August, 1895)
DOI Artikel:From gallery, studio and mart, with illustrations, [5]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17190#0177
From Gallery, Studio, and Mart
as must needs be, there are not a few creditable
designs, and the report of the Examiners strikes
A BOOK-PLATE BY R. ANNING BELL
one as being more thorough and their advice even
more valuable than usual.
To criticise the work on its own merits would be
tempting; but it may be argued that the exhibition is
to prove whether the student has learned the lessons
which can be taught, not whether Nature has given
him the genius for inventing design or creating new
harmonies of colour. If looked at simply as the
result of teaching, one may be fairly content; but
if examined to discover new genius it is less satis-
factory, and the doubt will arise whether the enor-
mous national expenditure is justified by the
result.
The most striking things this year are :—Oliver
Wheatley's nude figure (No. 784); Lilian Simp-
son's Torso (No. 62Z); a modelled book-cover
(No. 624) ; a wall-paper design (No. 28), by A. A.
Carpenter; Fred Appleyard (No. 54); Caroline
Thornhill's frieze and filling (No. 22); Francis
Heron's stencil (No. 220); Harry P. Clifford's
etchings of doorways (No. 628); and two frames
of coloured drawings of fishes, by Joseph Vinall
(No. 642).
Later we hope to be able to illustrate some
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more of the designs, for several have already
appeared in our pages, notably No. 16, stained
glass, by Bernard Sleigh, which took the first prize
in our Competition; No. 688, a design for surface
decoration, by Leon Solon; and a few of the pen-
drawings by students of the Birmingham School.
A very interesting Exhibition of the Applied
Arts, by members and associates of the Society of
the Quest and the Birmingham Guild of Handi-
craft, lately held in Birmingham, included several
book-plates, one of which, cut on wood by Charles
Carr from a design by E. H. New, we are permitted
to reproduce on the previous page.
The book-plates Mr. R. Anning Bell has kindly
allowed us to reproduce here need no detailed de-
scription.
EX LIBRIS
FLORENCE AND
WILLIAM PARK-
INSON
A BOOK-PLATE BY R. ANNING BELL
as must needs be, there are not a few creditable
designs, and the report of the Examiners strikes
A BOOK-PLATE BY R. ANNING BELL
one as being more thorough and their advice even
more valuable than usual.
To criticise the work on its own merits would be
tempting; but it may be argued that the exhibition is
to prove whether the student has learned the lessons
which can be taught, not whether Nature has given
him the genius for inventing design or creating new
harmonies of colour. If looked at simply as the
result of teaching, one may be fairly content; but
if examined to discover new genius it is less satis-
factory, and the doubt will arise whether the enor-
mous national expenditure is justified by the
result.
The most striking things this year are :—Oliver
Wheatley's nude figure (No. 784); Lilian Simp-
son's Torso (No. 62Z); a modelled book-cover
(No. 624) ; a wall-paper design (No. 28), by A. A.
Carpenter; Fred Appleyard (No. 54); Caroline
Thornhill's frieze and filling (No. 22); Francis
Heron's stencil (No. 220); Harry P. Clifford's
etchings of doorways (No. 628); and two frames
of coloured drawings of fishes, by Joseph Vinall
(No. 642).
Later we hope to be able to illustrate some
160
more of the designs, for several have already
appeared in our pages, notably No. 16, stained
glass, by Bernard Sleigh, which took the first prize
in our Competition; No. 688, a design for surface
decoration, by Leon Solon; and a few of the pen-
drawings by students of the Birmingham School.
A very interesting Exhibition of the Applied
Arts, by members and associates of the Society of
the Quest and the Birmingham Guild of Handi-
craft, lately held in Birmingham, included several
book-plates, one of which, cut on wood by Charles
Carr from a design by E. H. New, we are permitted
to reproduce on the previous page.
The book-plates Mr. R. Anning Bell has kindly
allowed us to reproduce here need no detailed de-
scription.
EX LIBRIS
FLORENCE AND
WILLIAM PARK-
INSON
A BOOK-PLATE BY R. ANNING BELL