Studio: international art (14.1898)

The National Competition

DESIGN FOR SILVER BOWL BY ISABEL MCBEAN

(New Cross)

ingenious disposition of ornament will soon be
enforced by fine colour, which is still more essen-
tial, inasmuch as its pre-
sence or absence in any
given object for good or
evil is felt long before the
eye begins to look for
form and detail.

On the Press-day the
appearance of the rooms
wherein the works were
displayed was singularly
good. One has to say on
the Press-day,because then
the central room, contain-
ing models and drawings
from the life, is not shut
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(Vol.XI. p. 231). A pleasant scheme for a sten-
cilled frieze, with all-over pattern also in stencil
(gold medalled) by the same hand, is entirely
good.

Another pleasant repeating pattern comes from
George Philip Parker (Chelsea). A group of
stencilled Christmas cards by Hugo William Koch
(South Kensington), and a stencilled wall-paper

‘teaaftmEwsges mat.

DESIGNS FOR BROOCHES BY H. M. PEMBERTON (New Cross)

in by curtains, bearing notices forbidding all
but teachers and art students to enter. Hence
the capital arrangement of the statues and paint
ings, which added no little to the effect of the
galleries as a whole, must be taken for granted.
It may be essential to keep the ordinary visitor
from such portions of a school’s work, but one
wishes that it could be done without these formal
prohibitions. For even to a well-balanced mind,
the very fact that a certain portion of the show is
forbidden raises doubts regarding its propriety,
which the British Museum, or the Royal Academy
itself, never suggest.

Taking the contents in order of classification,
we encounter first a group by H. E. Simpson
(Bradford), one of which, a panel, seems to owe its
inspiraton to certain decorations of a fireplace by
Mr. Talwin Morris, illustrated in The Studio

DRAWING BY M. E. THOMPSON

{New Cross)