Studio: international art (17.1899)

Studio-Talk

DESIGN FOR BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY SUNDERLAND ROLLINSON (Scarborough)
[See “ The National Competition 55)

showed some very good work. Perhaps the most
attractive was the box illustrated here. In addition,
a bag with steel fittings and a kettle-holder were
distinctly effective. They
are not mere adaptations
of old work; indeed,
they owe less to the past
than is the case with
most modern needle-
work with any preten-
sion to art. We were
not much impressed by
the woodcuts in colour,
for the best of them
seem to be directly in-
spired by the exemplary
work of Mr. William
Nicholson. Amongst

the more ambitious ex- embroidered box

to possess, but with
they find a difficulty
should be provided

hibits were a statuette from
life by Mr. Garbe and some
stained glass by B. Nelson.
A number of drawings from
casts and from the life were
painstaking,but their interest
was of necessity not great.
Much attention seems to
have been paid to the study
of plant form with a view to
its application to design, and
some very careful drawings
were the result. From these
notes it will be seen that
the school is proceeding on
the right lines. When it
is remembered that the
majority of the students are
actually employed in various
branches of handicraft, that
they are working appren-
tices and not professional
art students devoting the
whole of their time to study,
the exhibition must be
considered encouraging in
the highest degree.

C. H.

BRISTOL. — Bris-
tolians are be-
ginningto realise
the fact that a
municipal art
gallery would be a good thing
the old spirit still upon them
in seeing that a free exhibition
out of the rates. Sir W. H.

BY GRACE CHADBURN

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