Studio: international art (12.1898)

Some (Glasgow Designers

This passage would contain a stern condemna- sent them adequately but suffer, and terribly, by trans-
tion of the Glasgow School if it were what its lation in black and white. For the artist is not one
enemies prefer to believe it to be—a mere effort of those who makes elaborate drawings in mono-
for novelty at any price. It is because I, for one, chrome, and adds pigments arbitrarily to them after,
believe that with all its
waywardness it has a very

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firm hold of beauty, and
is striving to make beauti-
ful harmonies of colour,
and beautiful combina-
tions of line, that it is pos-
sible to feel very tolerant *
to its whimsicality, and
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certain conventions—
especially of the treatment

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of the human figure—that

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enough to approve. &
Such a defence is in j|
happy context when it ac-
companies the designs of
Mrs. Newbery, which,
new as they are, are obe- f
dient to the laws of sym-
metry and admirably fitted
for their material.

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embroideries — were evi-

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dently conceived as *
schemes of colour, they
not merely require that

important factor to repre- design for ax embroidered cushiox by jessie r. newbery

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