DOI Heft:
No. 62 (May, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0293
Studio- Talk
Gleichen, besides several medals (one being here
reproduced), showed a very graceful hand-mirror,
with an ivory handle and back, gold and green
enamel snakes, entwined amid bronze metal work
enclosing a crystal below, and framing a daintily
modelled figure above the handle.
The new schools in connection with the Leighton
Memorial Art Gallery in Peckham Road, Camber-
wTell, promise to extend the admirable wrork of
the County Council art-training on the south
side of London. Mr. Cecil Burns is the master,
and the rooms at his disposal are singularly well
arranged and well lighted. To show how practical
is the scheme of technical education carried on in
the same building, it will suffice to mention a class
for house painters which has a room provided with
a certain number of old panelled doors for them
to practice upon. Housed under the same roof as
the art galleries, students enjoy the benefit of the
loan exhibition held therein. At present a num-
ber of fine paintings by Leighton, Burne-Jones,
Watts, and others are reinforced by a large collection
of Mr. Walter Crane's work, and rooms filled with
porcelain, metal wrork, and various examples of
applied art, some lent by the South Kensington
Museum and others by Mrs. William Morris; one
of these latter being a famous armoire painted by
Sir Edward Burne-Jones and made for the Red
House, Bexley. So admirable an enterprise de-
serves the good wishes of all in sympathy with art. ceiling decoration by james r. cooper
The frames, illustrated here, designed and deco- enters into rivalry with the pictures for which they
rated by Mr. A. Wickham Jarvis, have been in each case specially designed. The
show the influence of architectural wood in some has been entirely covered with gold,
style upon a simple object. In each and the gesso decoration treated harmoniously; in
wre have comely proportion and sound others, the " untouched oak " is left as background
construction. Such ornamentation to the relief decoration in gesso. As they have
as they been in each case specially designed for certain
have is pictures, some of the effect is lost by their being
most fit- seen as frames only, and the symbolism adopted to
tingly ap- harmonise with the motive of the painting lacks its
plied, and reason for existence. But the designs themselves
by its reti- are far better studied with no conflicting interest,
cence never and they are good enough to stand the test. The
work of Mr. Wickham Jarvis in this direc-
tion is distinctly timely. At present, when
pictures in the ordinary gilt frames are
viewed suspiciously, it is good to find that
by substituting designs of the character of
these illustrated, even a modern natural-
istic picture can be brought to take its
rightful place in a well-considered scheme
ceiling decoration by james r. cooper of interior decoration, as in the one bear-
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Gleichen, besides several medals (one being here
reproduced), showed a very graceful hand-mirror,
with an ivory handle and back, gold and green
enamel snakes, entwined amid bronze metal work
enclosing a crystal below, and framing a daintily
modelled figure above the handle.
The new schools in connection with the Leighton
Memorial Art Gallery in Peckham Road, Camber-
wTell, promise to extend the admirable wrork of
the County Council art-training on the south
side of London. Mr. Cecil Burns is the master,
and the rooms at his disposal are singularly well
arranged and well lighted. To show how practical
is the scheme of technical education carried on in
the same building, it will suffice to mention a class
for house painters which has a room provided with
a certain number of old panelled doors for them
to practice upon. Housed under the same roof as
the art galleries, students enjoy the benefit of the
loan exhibition held therein. At present a num-
ber of fine paintings by Leighton, Burne-Jones,
Watts, and others are reinforced by a large collection
of Mr. Walter Crane's work, and rooms filled with
porcelain, metal wrork, and various examples of
applied art, some lent by the South Kensington
Museum and others by Mrs. William Morris; one
of these latter being a famous armoire painted by
Sir Edward Burne-Jones and made for the Red
House, Bexley. So admirable an enterprise de-
serves the good wishes of all in sympathy with art. ceiling decoration by james r. cooper
The frames, illustrated here, designed and deco- enters into rivalry with the pictures for which they
rated by Mr. A. Wickham Jarvis, have been in each case specially designed. The
show the influence of architectural wood in some has been entirely covered with gold,
style upon a simple object. In each and the gesso decoration treated harmoniously; in
wre have comely proportion and sound others, the " untouched oak " is left as background
construction. Such ornamentation to the relief decoration in gesso. As they have
as they been in each case specially designed for certain
have is pictures, some of the effect is lost by their being
most fit- seen as frames only, and the symbolism adopted to
tingly ap- harmonise with the motive of the painting lacks its
plied, and reason for existence. But the designs themselves
by its reti- are far better studied with no conflicting interest,
cence never and they are good enough to stand the test. The
work of Mr. Wickham Jarvis in this direc-
tion is distinctly timely. At present, when
pictures in the ordinary gilt frames are
viewed suspiciously, it is good to find that
by substituting designs of the character of
these illustrated, even a modern natural-
istic picture can be brought to take its
rightful place in a well-considered scheme
ceiling decoration by james r. cooper of interior decoration, as in the one bear-
266