DOI Heft:
Nr. 46 (January 1897)
DOI Artikel:The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1896 (final article)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17298#0298
The Arts and Crafts
pieces of jewellery, from designs by Eleanor C. Tiles, designed by Lewis F. Day and executed by
Mercer, Esther Moore, C. Napier Clavering, C. M. Lawrence Hale ; Came lot, a Fireplace designed by
Gore, Jessie M. Jones, Elinor Halle, A. S. Dixon, Halsey Ricardo ; Book-plates by H. Ospovat, and
Lilian Simpson and others, are worthy of detailed programme designs by Henry Holiday, are but a
notice, but space forbids even a bare catalogue. few of the worthy objects unnoticed here. All the
Night, a metal panel by Gilbert Bayes ; a really leather and cloth bindings, the illuminations, and
novel and satisfactory Piano, by M. H. B. Scott; a several other classes of work, have either been
lead pipe-head by F. W. Troup; a Stove by J. previously noticed in these pages, or will form the
Begg; some Opus Sectile, designed by G. P. subjects of future articles. With a definite in-
Hutchinson, and executed by Powell & Sons; and tention to leave no item unnoticed, the attempt
more of the same material designed by H. Holiday, was found to be impracticable. The exigencies
and executed by W. Glasby & Co.; a Panel of of an illustrated magazine refuse space for
unlimited gossip, and the
injustice thereby wrought is
not due to want of sympathy,
but merely to the inexorable
laws of space, which cannot
be ignored.
Even an attempt to sum
up in a few lines the artistic
value of over eight hundred
exhibits is perhaps not
merely a foolish but a hope-
less task. Yet it is impos-
sible to avoid contrasting
the fifth exhibition of " The
Arts and Crafts" with its
predecessors. Each new
display exhibits not only its
new triumphs but also its
failures, and these at first
are more obtrusive, while
memories of earlier shows
are apt to record impres-
sions of the best things
only and to ignore the less
worthy.
It is more difficult to ap-
preciate the progress of the
Arts as represented in col-
lections of hundreds of
various objects, by reason
of the principle which has
ruled so far, which ranks the
effect of each room as a
more important feature than
a classification of the objects
it contains.
Whether the effect of the
Exhibition as a whole would
suffer by an orderly distri-
bution of its objects into
classes is an open question.
ILLUSTRATION FOR "THE TEMPEST" BY G. WOOLLISCROFT RHEAD Certainly it WOUld have a
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pieces of jewellery, from designs by Eleanor C. Tiles, designed by Lewis F. Day and executed by
Mercer, Esther Moore, C. Napier Clavering, C. M. Lawrence Hale ; Came lot, a Fireplace designed by
Gore, Jessie M. Jones, Elinor Halle, A. S. Dixon, Halsey Ricardo ; Book-plates by H. Ospovat, and
Lilian Simpson and others, are worthy of detailed programme designs by Henry Holiday, are but a
notice, but space forbids even a bare catalogue. few of the worthy objects unnoticed here. All the
Night, a metal panel by Gilbert Bayes ; a really leather and cloth bindings, the illuminations, and
novel and satisfactory Piano, by M. H. B. Scott; a several other classes of work, have either been
lead pipe-head by F. W. Troup; a Stove by J. previously noticed in these pages, or will form the
Begg; some Opus Sectile, designed by G. P. subjects of future articles. With a definite in-
Hutchinson, and executed by Powell & Sons; and tention to leave no item unnoticed, the attempt
more of the same material designed by H. Holiday, was found to be impracticable. The exigencies
and executed by W. Glasby & Co.; a Panel of of an illustrated magazine refuse space for
unlimited gossip, and the
injustice thereby wrought is
not due to want of sympathy,
but merely to the inexorable
laws of space, which cannot
be ignored.
Even an attempt to sum
up in a few lines the artistic
value of over eight hundred
exhibits is perhaps not
merely a foolish but a hope-
less task. Yet it is impos-
sible to avoid contrasting
the fifth exhibition of " The
Arts and Crafts" with its
predecessors. Each new
display exhibits not only its
new triumphs but also its
failures, and these at first
are more obtrusive, while
memories of earlier shows
are apt to record impres-
sions of the best things
only and to ignore the less
worthy.
It is more difficult to ap-
preciate the progress of the
Arts as represented in col-
lections of hundreds of
various objects, by reason
of the principle which has
ruled so far, which ranks the
effect of each room as a
more important feature than
a classification of the objects
it contains.
Whether the effect of the
Exhibition as a whole would
suffer by an orderly distri-
bution of its objects into
classes is an open question.
ILLUSTRATION FOR "THE TEMPEST" BY G. WOOLLISCROFT RHEAD Certainly it WOUld have a
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