DOI issue:
No. 70 (January 1899)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0307
Studio- Talk
displays of his work. He is an artist with a very
wide range of capacity and distinct discretion in
his choice of subjects. His particular specialism lies
in the direction of architectural motives, and in
the show were included many sound examples of
this branch of his work, studies in and about such
buildings as Canterbury, Winchester, and St. David's
Cathedrals, the Market Hall, Shrewsbury, and
Winchester College. But, besides, he showed a
good number of well-imagined landscapes that by
their capable expression of effects of atmosphere
and light appealed strongly to all lovers of nature's
subtleties.
An addition is to be made directly to the already
numerous associations of artists which exist in
London. This is to be a " Pastel Society," and its
first exhibition will open in February in the gal-
leries of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-
Colours. A considerable array of members has
been gathered together, among them Sir W. B.
Richmond, Sir J. D. Linton, Mr. E. A, Abbey,
Mr. G. F. Watts, Mr. G. H. Boughton, Mr. Onslow
Ford, Mr. Holman Hunt, Mr. A. Parsons, Mr.
Byam Shaw, Mr. J. J. Shannon, Mr. Solomon J.
Solomon, Mr. Clausen, Mr. Walter Crane, and
Mr. J. M. Swan, as well as a number of foreign
painters of note. An exhibition under such
auspices should help greatly to popularise a
method of technical practice at which the public
have lately been inclined to look somewhat
askance; and it should prove incontestably what
are the possibilities of this fascinating medium.
No such attempt to rehabilitate pastel and to assert
the excellence of its qualities has been made since
the shows at the Grosvenor Gallery some years
ago, and every success is to be hoped for the new
society.
Two large lunettes in coloured plaster relief
have been, recently executed by Mr. H. C. Fehr,
one of the most able of our younger sculptors,
and are now in their permanent position in the
Library of the West Ham Institute. They are
important examples of a method of decoration
which has become exceedingly popular during
recent years; and, as each one has a width at the
base of twenty feet and a height of ten feet, they
play a valuable part in the scheme of adornment
selected for the room. One symbolises Literature,
the other The Romance of Chivalry; in the first
the spirit of Literature is enthroned with various
attendants, personifying the Arts and Sciences,
grouped around; and in the second a king with
his knights and followers is shown riding in his
warlike panoply beyond a terrace on which stand
female figures representing Art, Music, Literature,
and the Stage. Both are modelled in low relief,
but are treated with considerable vigour; and the
scheme of colouring adopted for them is full of
variety. A good effect is gained by the lavish use
of gold and silver surfaces to accentuate the salient
details of the compositions.
The book-plate by Miss Sandheim, which is
reproduced, has merits as a design which entitle it
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displays of his work. He is an artist with a very
wide range of capacity and distinct discretion in
his choice of subjects. His particular specialism lies
in the direction of architectural motives, and in
the show were included many sound examples of
this branch of his work, studies in and about such
buildings as Canterbury, Winchester, and St. David's
Cathedrals, the Market Hall, Shrewsbury, and
Winchester College. But, besides, he showed a
good number of well-imagined landscapes that by
their capable expression of effects of atmosphere
and light appealed strongly to all lovers of nature's
subtleties.
An addition is to be made directly to the already
numerous associations of artists which exist in
London. This is to be a " Pastel Society," and its
first exhibition will open in February in the gal-
leries of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-
Colours. A considerable array of members has
been gathered together, among them Sir W. B.
Richmond, Sir J. D. Linton, Mr. E. A, Abbey,
Mr. G. F. Watts, Mr. G. H. Boughton, Mr. Onslow
Ford, Mr. Holman Hunt, Mr. A. Parsons, Mr.
Byam Shaw, Mr. J. J. Shannon, Mr. Solomon J.
Solomon, Mr. Clausen, Mr. Walter Crane, and
Mr. J. M. Swan, as well as a number of foreign
painters of note. An exhibition under such
auspices should help greatly to popularise a
method of technical practice at which the public
have lately been inclined to look somewhat
askance; and it should prove incontestably what
are the possibilities of this fascinating medium.
No such attempt to rehabilitate pastel and to assert
the excellence of its qualities has been made since
the shows at the Grosvenor Gallery some years
ago, and every success is to be hoped for the new
society.
Two large lunettes in coloured plaster relief
have been, recently executed by Mr. H. C. Fehr,
one of the most able of our younger sculptors,
and are now in their permanent position in the
Library of the West Ham Institute. They are
important examples of a method of decoration
which has become exceedingly popular during
recent years; and, as each one has a width at the
base of twenty feet and a height of ten feet, they
play a valuable part in the scheme of adornment
selected for the room. One symbolises Literature,
the other The Romance of Chivalry; in the first
the spirit of Literature is enthroned with various
attendants, personifying the Arts and Sciences,
grouped around; and in the second a king with
his knights and followers is shown riding in his
warlike panoply beyond a terrace on which stand
female figures representing Art, Music, Literature,
and the Stage. Both are modelled in low relief,
but are treated with considerable vigour; and the
scheme of colouring adopted for them is full of
variety. A good effect is gained by the lavish use
of gold and silver surfaces to accentuate the salient
details of the compositions.
The book-plate by Miss Sandheim, which is
reproduced, has merits as a design which entitle it
275