Studio: international art (14.1898)

Studio-Talk

UMBRELLA STAND IN OAK AND COPPER

BY B. SCHWABE
(.See Manchester Studio- Talk)

arms of the mother, her head confidingly resting
on the father’s shoulder
in an attitude fully expres-
sive of the first calm
moment succeeding a
terrified agitation.

DRESDEN. — At the time that the
sad news of the sudden death of
Sir Edward Burne-Jones reached
us, there was an exhibition of his
works on at Arnold’s Galleries here.
It embraced only drawings and sketches, about fifty
in number, being part of those shown in London
during the spring of 1897. However, although the
absence of all paintings was sorely felt, the show
was very acceptable, since down till then we have
had to content ourselves with photographic repro-
ductions whenever we wished to form an opinion
on Burne-Jones’ art. The same exhibition made
us acquainted with an excellent and large selection
of glassware by Louis Tiffany, of New York.

The poster craze here has come to an end, but
it has been followed’by another craze, in some
manner dependent upon it—the picture post-card.
For ten or twenty years picture post-cards have
been used on the Continent to a degree quite un-
known in England. People travelling about, who
wished to avoid troublesome letter-writing and
yet wanted to inform their friends of their where-
abouts, would drop a line to them on a card with
a view of the place they happened to be at, drawn
by an inferior hand or reproduced by photography.
When poster-designing was suddenly raised from a
trade to an art, the designing of picture post-cards
followed suit, and a little over a year ago a firm in
Karlsruhe published a set of “artist post-cards.”
Since then an immense amount has been produced,
and the number of illustrated cards forwarded by
the German mail during the first six months of 1898
has been estimated at over ten millions. Some very
well-known artists have devoted their talents to the

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Now nearing comple-
tion in Mr. Allen’s studio
are two panels destined
for the decoration of St.
George’s Hall. Mr. Stir-
ling Lee and Mr. Conrad
Dressier have both re-
ceived commissions for
corresponding panels.

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