DOI Heft:
No. 70 (January 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0312
Studio- Talk
entitled Song, while little more than a suggestion,
is an exceedingly pretty idea, skilfully handled.
Mr. Leonard R. Guthrie, who, for so young a
designer, shows remarkable versatility, contri-
butes, besides a well-proportioned music cabinet
and architectural sketches, a refined window car-
toon, which puts the Adoration of the Magi in
a very modern aspect. A word of praise should
be bestowed on Mr. Fulton's sketches made in
Spain, less architectural records than beautiful
objects in themselves. Though the medium is
pencil the manner would be equally suitable in
ink, and the story told is strictly in the language
of line. It is this language, too, which Miss
Jessie M. King employs to such good purpose
in her engaging drawings. Nothing could be
finer than the way in which she has etherealised
EMBROIDERY DESIGNED BY JESSIE R. NEWBERY
EXECUTED BY EDITH ROWAT
the dreamy confusion, the delightful nonsense
of Eugene Field's lullaby, "Wynken, Blynken
and Nod," the fishermen three. In the June
number of The Studio we illustrated some 6f
Miss King's work ; to-day we have to congratu-
late her on an advance in the line of her dis-
tinctive methods.
Time and space would fail one to specify
many other exhibits which might well earn a
word of commendation or criticism. But
enough has been said to indicate the nature
and tendency of the collection. Such an ex-
hibition, if maintained at this standard annually,
280
TEA-COSY DESIGNED BY JESSIE R. NEWBERY
EXECUTED BY BELLA ROWAT
must be a recurring stimulus to young art-
workers, and at the same time an educative
influence upon its numerous visitors. Im-
portant as is the function which this group
of students exercises in the shaping of local
taste, it is likely to be extended if the move-
ment continues to carry with it the increasing
breadth of view and widening knowledge
which this year's exhibition evinces. No one
interested can fail to observe in the best
LEAD MIRROR-FRAME BY MISS DEWAR
entitled Song, while little more than a suggestion,
is an exceedingly pretty idea, skilfully handled.
Mr. Leonard R. Guthrie, who, for so young a
designer, shows remarkable versatility, contri-
butes, besides a well-proportioned music cabinet
and architectural sketches, a refined window car-
toon, which puts the Adoration of the Magi in
a very modern aspect. A word of praise should
be bestowed on Mr. Fulton's sketches made in
Spain, less architectural records than beautiful
objects in themselves. Though the medium is
pencil the manner would be equally suitable in
ink, and the story told is strictly in the language
of line. It is this language, too, which Miss
Jessie M. King employs to such good purpose
in her engaging drawings. Nothing could be
finer than the way in which she has etherealised
EMBROIDERY DESIGNED BY JESSIE R. NEWBERY
EXECUTED BY EDITH ROWAT
the dreamy confusion, the delightful nonsense
of Eugene Field's lullaby, "Wynken, Blynken
and Nod," the fishermen three. In the June
number of The Studio we illustrated some 6f
Miss King's work ; to-day we have to congratu-
late her on an advance in the line of her dis-
tinctive methods.
Time and space would fail one to specify
many other exhibits which might well earn a
word of commendation or criticism. But
enough has been said to indicate the nature
and tendency of the collection. Such an ex-
hibition, if maintained at this standard annually,
280
TEA-COSY DESIGNED BY JESSIE R. NEWBERY
EXECUTED BY BELLA ROWAT
must be a recurring stimulus to young art-
workers, and at the same time an educative
influence upon its numerous visitors. Im-
portant as is the function which this group
of students exercises in the shaping of local
taste, it is likely to be extended if the move-
ment continues to carry with it the increasing
breadth of view and widening knowledge
which this year's exhibition evinces. No one
interested can fail to observe in the best
LEAD MIRROR-FRAME BY MISS DEWAR