DOI Heft:
No. 62 (May, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0291
Studio- Talk
MIRROR BY COUNTESS GLEICHEN
garish and unsuitable for decoration, which is at
least one essential aspect of a painting.
The first exhibition of the Society of Medallists,
held at Mr. Van Wisselingh's Dutch Gallery, de-
serves well of all interested in a branch of art for
which, if our current coinage were sole evidence,
English people would seem to have lost all feeling
264
and interest. Here were veteran medallists, notably
Professor Legros and Miss Elinor Halle and new
recruits with tentative efforts in the difficult art of
the medallion. Among some twenty-eight medals
by Legros, those of Charles Ricketts and C. H.
Shannon were the latest and in some respects most
interesting. One, here reproduced, will demonstrate
the delicacy and strength of both; the other, unfortu-
nately, failed to reproduce effectively. Miss Edith
A. Bell's Naomi, Mr. Pibworth's Medallion Portrait,
Mr. David McGill's medals, Sir Edward Poynter's
Una Capresse, Mr. Rothenstein's Rodin and Paul
Verlaine, and an admirable collection by Mr. Frank
Bowcher, were among the most attractive by reason
of their design. Mr. Alfred Drury's charming panel
in high relief—My Queen—if hardly a medal, is a
beautiful thing in itself. The Countess Feodora
MEDALLION BY FRANK BOWCHER
MIRROR BY COUNTESS GLEICHEN
garish and unsuitable for decoration, which is at
least one essential aspect of a painting.
The first exhibition of the Society of Medallists,
held at Mr. Van Wisselingh's Dutch Gallery, de-
serves well of all interested in a branch of art for
which, if our current coinage were sole evidence,
English people would seem to have lost all feeling
264
and interest. Here were veteran medallists, notably
Professor Legros and Miss Elinor Halle and new
recruits with tentative efforts in the difficult art of
the medallion. Among some twenty-eight medals
by Legros, those of Charles Ricketts and C. H.
Shannon were the latest and in some respects most
interesting. One, here reproduced, will demonstrate
the delicacy and strength of both; the other, unfortu-
nately, failed to reproduce effectively. Miss Edith
A. Bell's Naomi, Mr. Pibworth's Medallion Portrait,
Mr. David McGill's medals, Sir Edward Poynter's
Una Capresse, Mr. Rothenstein's Rodin and Paul
Verlaine, and an admirable collection by Mr. Frank
Bowcher, were among the most attractive by reason
of their design. Mr. Alfred Drury's charming panel
in high relief—My Queen—if hardly a medal, is a
beautiful thing in itself. The Countess Feodora
MEDALLION BY FRANK BOWCHER