DOI Heft:
No. 26 (May, 1895)
DOI Artikel:S., E. B.: Some aspects of the work of Miss Mary L. Newill
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0076
The Work of Miss Mary L. Newill
Leighton's memorable Lemon Tree, reproduced in with a motto, which is possibly intended to be a
an earlier issue of The Studio ; yet it would be design for stained glass, we see the final reduction
hardly easy to name any other modern example of fact to symbols, so happily carried out that the
that has been published which exhibits equal quasi-realistic border of carillons is the only jarring
dexterity of handling combined
with patient observation. But
the chance association of these
two widely different drawings
must not be taken to imply
comparison, much less compe-
tition. The young artist, now
President of the Royal Aca-
demy, had quite different ends
in view. His medium—lead
pencil—lent itself to subtleties
of form, not even sought, much
less achieved in Miss Newill's
work. The Lemon Tree shows
the artistic acceptance of almost
every detail that Nature offered;
in the other, each detail has
been modified to its due im-
portance in the scheme regard- "the broad gate, ludlow " by m. l. newill
less of facts, but mindful of its
decorative value as a symbol rather than a portrait, note not merely in this panel, but in the group of
The study of a conifer (it is best to use the Miss Newill's work here represented,
generic phrase, since the exact species depicted is In the needlework we see that an artist has em-
not quite certain) shows that the larger study was ployed the material simply and with a full sense of
not due to a happy accident, but the result of its own importance, so that you do not feel that it
knowledge and trained sight. The other studies is the copy of a picture, burlesqued in stitches, but
of a yew-tree by a church porch, the churchyard a genuine achievement in the art of embroidery,
and vicarage, and the view of a village by the sea, which by virtue of a fine sense of design happens
all bear witness to the same orderly perception of also to include some pictorial qualities. The panel
the simple facts which must needs suffice for of an angel, here illustrated, is a feast of colour, no
workers in this style. In the decorative panel less than a most pleasant arrangement of line and
churchyard, ludlow
60
by m. l. newill
Leighton's memorable Lemon Tree, reproduced in with a motto, which is possibly intended to be a
an earlier issue of The Studio ; yet it would be design for stained glass, we see the final reduction
hardly easy to name any other modern example of fact to symbols, so happily carried out that the
that has been published which exhibits equal quasi-realistic border of carillons is the only jarring
dexterity of handling combined
with patient observation. But
the chance association of these
two widely different drawings
must not be taken to imply
comparison, much less compe-
tition. The young artist, now
President of the Royal Aca-
demy, had quite different ends
in view. His medium—lead
pencil—lent itself to subtleties
of form, not even sought, much
less achieved in Miss Newill's
work. The Lemon Tree shows
the artistic acceptance of almost
every detail that Nature offered;
in the other, each detail has
been modified to its due im-
portance in the scheme regard- "the broad gate, ludlow " by m. l. newill
less of facts, but mindful of its
decorative value as a symbol rather than a portrait, note not merely in this panel, but in the group of
The study of a conifer (it is best to use the Miss Newill's work here represented,
generic phrase, since the exact species depicted is In the needlework we see that an artist has em-
not quite certain) shows that the larger study was ployed the material simply and with a full sense of
not due to a happy accident, but the result of its own importance, so that you do not feel that it
knowledge and trained sight. The other studies is the copy of a picture, burlesqued in stitches, but
of a yew-tree by a church porch, the churchyard a genuine achievement in the art of embroidery,
and vicarage, and the view of a village by the sea, which by virtue of a fine sense of design happens
all bear witness to the same orderly perception of also to include some pictorial qualities. The panel
the simple facts which must needs suffice for of an angel, here illustrated, is a feast of colour, no
workers in this style. In the decorative panel less than a most pleasant arrangement of line and
churchyard, ludlow
60
by m. l. newill