DOI Heft:
No. 61 (April, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0209
Studio- Talk
ILLUS rRATH >N for
feeling of old missal
work without archaic
affectation.
A feature of one room
was undoubtedly the
folding screen exhibited
by the Royal School of
Art Needlework. The
design by Mr. Walter
Crane, extending over
three panels, supplies
a conventional arrange-
ment of figures in land-
scape, well within the
province of the needle.
folk-lore" by a. donnay By its breadth of colour-
ing, and by " values "
encing more and more the work of the present preserved most skilfully, it compared very favour-
day school of younger painters. ably with the average of its kind. At a time when
Aubrey Beardsley is dead ! It is needless in the
pages wherein he was first introduced to the
public to add a word to the bare fact. His first
tentative efforts appeared in a school magazine,
dated February 1889, and in our first number (April
1893) his first serious work ; this gives less than five
years for an influence which has modified illustra-
tion all the world over. In our next number will
appear a design made especially for The Studio,
showing a new development of his peculiarly
individual manner. For the moment, the fact that
he is dead demands silence, not speech.
At the forty-third exhibition of the Society of
Lady Artists, at the Suffolk Street Galleries, two
rooms were again devoted to examples of handi-
craft. In wood-carving, embroidery, lace, book-
binding, repousse metal work, and kindred methods,
were over two hundred examples of varying degrees
of merit, including some of genuine interest.
Speaking broadly of the whole of this section, the
craft was in advance of the design. Notable ex-
ceptions were to be found, but a tendency to
invertebrate ornament, not by any means peculiar
to ladies' work, was often in evidence. Much of
the painted vellum binding, pleasant in colour and
quite enticing at first sight, revealed this fatal
weakness. Amongst the best of the objects exhi-
bited may be mentioned a distinctly good design
for a silver sugar-basin, by Miss Hilda M. Pem-
berton, and a St. Cecilia, by Edith Calvert
(Mrs. Elkin Mathews), a design attractive by its
colour and by its simplicity, while keeping the
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"ST. CECILIA" PAINTED PANEL BY EDITH CALVERT
ILLUS rRATH >N for
feeling of old missal
work without archaic
affectation.
A feature of one room
was undoubtedly the
folding screen exhibited
by the Royal School of
Art Needlework. The
design by Mr. Walter
Crane, extending over
three panels, supplies
a conventional arrange-
ment of figures in land-
scape, well within the
province of the needle.
folk-lore" by a. donnay By its breadth of colour-
ing, and by " values "
encing more and more the work of the present preserved most skilfully, it compared very favour-
day school of younger painters. ably with the average of its kind. At a time when
Aubrey Beardsley is dead ! It is needless in the
pages wherein he was first introduced to the
public to add a word to the bare fact. His first
tentative efforts appeared in a school magazine,
dated February 1889, and in our first number (April
1893) his first serious work ; this gives less than five
years for an influence which has modified illustra-
tion all the world over. In our next number will
appear a design made especially for The Studio,
showing a new development of his peculiarly
individual manner. For the moment, the fact that
he is dead demands silence, not speech.
At the forty-third exhibition of the Society of
Lady Artists, at the Suffolk Street Galleries, two
rooms were again devoted to examples of handi-
craft. In wood-carving, embroidery, lace, book-
binding, repousse metal work, and kindred methods,
were over two hundred examples of varying degrees
of merit, including some of genuine interest.
Speaking broadly of the whole of this section, the
craft was in advance of the design. Notable ex-
ceptions were to be found, but a tendency to
invertebrate ornament, not by any means peculiar
to ladies' work, was often in evidence. Much of
the painted vellum binding, pleasant in colour and
quite enticing at first sight, revealed this fatal
weakness. Amongst the best of the objects exhi-
bited may be mentioned a distinctly good design
for a silver sugar-basin, by Miss Hilda M. Pem-
berton, and a St. Cecilia, by Edith Calvert
(Mrs. Elkin Mathews), a design attractive by its
colour and by its simplicity, while keeping the
186
"ST. CECILIA" PAINTED PANEL BY EDITH CALVERT