Studio: international art (9.1897)

The Arts and Crafts

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admirable " Kitzroy Pictures"—Cricket, The
Plough, The City, and The Railway Train—show
a very sincere effort to treat modern life deco-
ratively. If they are not quite equally successful,
they all show a very fine instinct of selection, and
dramatic presentation of the theme.

A silk and wool hanging (page 274) by Arthur
H. Lee is fully explained by the illustration, and
needs no further comment. Another piece (page
275) executed by the same hand, from a design
by Samuel Rowe, may also be left to speak for
itself.

Sidney Haward, a very clever designer, was repre-
sented by a single exhibit (page 275), a pattern for

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cretonne, which is a little thin in its lines
for a fabric, yet there is no little novelty in
its plan, although it cannot be regarded as
a successful attempt to combine naturalistic
growth with purely conventional disposition of
details.

The Thicket, a wall paper frieze in lacquer,
Floral Trellis, a filling, and The Fig and Vine,
showed Mr. Heywood Sumner as the designer
of some admirable wall papers manufactured by
Jeffrey and Co. They were excellent examples of
simple conventional forms and unaffected gay colour,
with a certain old-world charm, that is distinctly
pleasing. Drawings for Jacob and the Raven,
and three admirable embroidery designs, exe-
cuted respectively by Mrs. Ward and Hilda

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