DOI Heft:
No. 54 (September, 1897)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: Some Glasgow designers and their work, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0261
Some Glasgow Designers
until a few wars ago. So the logic of facts upsets
all theories of racial influence antl the like. Even
U it made an Italian Rossetti the leader of one great
artistic movement in Great Britain, and Whistler,
an American, another great power, SO it may at any
moment upset all one's carefully elaborated deduc-
tions l>v quite incontrovertible facts. J-'or art is,
by its very essence, a thing you cannot reduce to a
formula, and most prophecies concerning it are only
safe to utter when the event has come off.
In connection with the mural decorations of Mr.
Mackintosh, his designs for furniture were also
illustrated and commented upon, but the exigencies
of space turned out one or two from their proper
position, in the first of these papers ; and now the
same inflexible tyrant, who is always at hand to
destroy a writer's attempts to be symmetrical, makes
it impossible to include in this part the embroideries
of Mrs. Newbery, which will be fully illustrated in
the next instalment of Glasgow work. But even
this will barely exhaust the first group of decorative
artists who are living in that city, as future papers
on the stained glass of Mr. Oscar Paterson, and
the mural and other decorations by Mr. George
Walton will show plainly. These two craftsmen
BOOK-PLATE BY J. HERBERT MCNAIR
have nothing in common
with what might be called
the " Mac " group, were
it not that both Mr.
Talwin Morris and Mrs.
Francis Newbery do not
bear the national prefix.
Indeed it would not be
fair to Mr. George Wal-
ton to link him with any
other workers, and Mr.
Oscar Paterson is not
only distinctly isolated
from the influence of
other neighbouring artists,
but has worked out a
quantity of absolutely
novel ideas in domestic
stained glass.
The Glasgow move-
ment, interesting as it is,
cannot be traced to a
|mm«hm^h Single source. Most
kwiii probably it is the natural
outcome of the vitality of
those painters who have
•'vanity" MIRROR FRAME in LEAD once again linked the
DESIGNED and BEATEN BY M. AND P. MACDONALD and HERBERT MCNAIR e .1 •» o
name of their citv with
a 34
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until a few wars ago. So the logic of facts upsets
all theories of racial influence antl the like. Even
U it made an Italian Rossetti the leader of one great
artistic movement in Great Britain, and Whistler,
an American, another great power, SO it may at any
moment upset all one's carefully elaborated deduc-
tions l>v quite incontrovertible facts. J-'or art is,
by its very essence, a thing you cannot reduce to a
formula, and most prophecies concerning it are only
safe to utter when the event has come off.
In connection with the mural decorations of Mr.
Mackintosh, his designs for furniture were also
illustrated and commented upon, but the exigencies
of space turned out one or two from their proper
position, in the first of these papers ; and now the
same inflexible tyrant, who is always at hand to
destroy a writer's attempts to be symmetrical, makes
it impossible to include in this part the embroideries
of Mrs. Newbery, which will be fully illustrated in
the next instalment of Glasgow work. But even
this will barely exhaust the first group of decorative
artists who are living in that city, as future papers
on the stained glass of Mr. Oscar Paterson, and
the mural and other decorations by Mr. George
Walton will show plainly. These two craftsmen
BOOK-PLATE BY J. HERBERT MCNAIR
have nothing in common
with what might be called
the " Mac " group, were
it not that both Mr.
Talwin Morris and Mrs.
Francis Newbery do not
bear the national prefix.
Indeed it would not be
fair to Mr. George Wal-
ton to link him with any
other workers, and Mr.
Oscar Paterson is not
only distinctly isolated
from the influence of
other neighbouring artists,
but has worked out a
quantity of absolutely
novel ideas in domestic
stained glass.
The Glasgow move-
ment, interesting as it is,
cannot be traced to a
|mm«hm^h Single source. Most
kwiii probably it is the natural
outcome of the vitality of
those painters who have
•'vanity" MIRROR FRAME in LEAD once again linked the
DESIGNED and BEATEN BY M. AND P. MACDONALD and HERBERT MCNAIR e .1 •» o
name of their citv with
a 34
.^z.~zzz ■ ■ ■--1 Wmm± z . —^■