DOI issue:
No. 55 (October, 1897)
DOI article:Little, James Stanley: Frank Brangwyn and his art
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18390#0024
Frank Brangwyn and his Art
"ST. SIMON STYLITES" FROM A PAINTING BY FRANK BRANGWYN
{In the Collection of Herr Secger)
studied at South Kensington Museum, devoting mind by his close association with the author of
himself to copying Donatello's reliefs. It will, how- "The Earthly Paradise." It was while at South
ever, surprise no one who has a general knowledge Kensington he attracted the attention of Mr. Morris,
of the processes whereby an artist of genius finds who at once perceiving the bent of his abilities, asked
himself, to learn that, with slight reservations, Frank him to make for him facsimiles of Flemish tapestry.
Brangwyn's artistic training was self-imposed and His expectations being realised, Morris gave earnest
self-directed. I lis aim in art is eminently construe- of his confidence in the young man by engaging
tive. Regarding, as he does, architecture as the him to assist him in carrying out riis own designs for
parent of art, he is fully in sympathy with mediaeval tapestries, embroideries, and other textiles. I hiring
ideas of the function of graphic art—to produce three years, though it is evident at that time
beautiful things to embellish and render more Brangwyn had no liking for prolonged employment,
habitable a well-designed habitation. I will deal he was engaged in Morris's workshops in Oxford
with this aspect of Mr. Brangwyn's art later. This Street, enlarging designs, tracing drawings on cloth
view, of which the modern exponents have been and drawing them on silk. No doubt this practice
William Morris and Walter Crane, was no doubt was exceedingly valuable, and gave the painter the
strengthened and emphasised in the young artist's facility of wrist, for after all it is the wrist which
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"ST. SIMON STYLITES" FROM A PAINTING BY FRANK BRANGWYN
{In the Collection of Herr Secger)
studied at South Kensington Museum, devoting mind by his close association with the author of
himself to copying Donatello's reliefs. It will, how- "The Earthly Paradise." It was while at South
ever, surprise no one who has a general knowledge Kensington he attracted the attention of Mr. Morris,
of the processes whereby an artist of genius finds who at once perceiving the bent of his abilities, asked
himself, to learn that, with slight reservations, Frank him to make for him facsimiles of Flemish tapestry.
Brangwyn's artistic training was self-imposed and His expectations being realised, Morris gave earnest
self-directed. I lis aim in art is eminently construe- of his confidence in the young man by engaging
tive. Regarding, as he does, architecture as the him to assist him in carrying out riis own designs for
parent of art, he is fully in sympathy with mediaeval tapestries, embroideries, and other textiles. I hiring
ideas of the function of graphic art—to produce three years, though it is evident at that time
beautiful things to embellish and render more Brangwyn had no liking for prolonged employment,
habitable a well-designed habitation. I will deal he was engaged in Morris's workshops in Oxford
with this aspect of Mr. Brangwyn's art later. This Street, enlarging designs, tracing drawings on cloth
view, of which the modern exponents have been and drawing them on silk. No doubt this practice
William Morris and Walter Crane, was no doubt was exceedingly valuable, and gave the painter the
strengthened and emphasised in the young artist's facility of wrist, for after all it is the wrist which
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