DOI issue:
No. 82 (January, 1900)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0316
Studio- Talk
Last year, in November, the School Board for
London held its annual exhibition of the best work
done by children in many forms of handicraft, and
we are glad to speak of it as one of the most inter-
esting exhibitions that we have seen in recent years.
It proved two things clearly: first, that London
children take delight in modelling, woodwork,
drawing, brush work, wood-carving and metal-work;
next, that the School Board has set before itself
the duty of becoming a good influence in the pro-
gress of applied art. Pupils and teachers are
evidently in earnest; they work together both with
method and with enthusiasm; and the general
result of this co-operation is full of promise. Of
course, we do not mean to hint that everything is
perfect. The style of drawing is not square enough,
and a great deal too much time is given to shading.
We hope these defects will soon disappear.
".ffiNEAS LEAVING TROY " BY GILBERT BAYES
/ENEAS LEAVING TROY" BY M. J. BROWN
Two talented and widely differing American artists,
Mr. Henry Mayer and Mr. Charles H. Pepper, have
recently exhibited separate collections of their
drawings. The former, when he opened, his little
show at the Clifford Galleries, was already known
to a large number of English people, but we doubt
if many had then an exact notion of the great
variety of his appeal as a caricaturist, as a sort of
Josh Billings in black and white. Caricature has
often been called a dangerous art, so apt is it not
only to lose its true flavour, its flavour of drollery,
but to become offensively impudent and personal;
for when a man begins to make fun of another's
failings and personal appearance, he needs a play-
ful kindness of heart to save him from cruel errors
of bad taste. To this fact very little attention is
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Last year, in November, the School Board for
London held its annual exhibition of the best work
done by children in many forms of handicraft, and
we are glad to speak of it as one of the most inter-
esting exhibitions that we have seen in recent years.
It proved two things clearly: first, that London
children take delight in modelling, woodwork,
drawing, brush work, wood-carving and metal-work;
next, that the School Board has set before itself
the duty of becoming a good influence in the pro-
gress of applied art. Pupils and teachers are
evidently in earnest; they work together both with
method and with enthusiasm; and the general
result of this co-operation is full of promise. Of
course, we do not mean to hint that everything is
perfect. The style of drawing is not square enough,
and a great deal too much time is given to shading.
We hope these defects will soon disappear.
".ffiNEAS LEAVING TROY " BY GILBERT BAYES
/ENEAS LEAVING TROY" BY M. J. BROWN
Two talented and widely differing American artists,
Mr. Henry Mayer and Mr. Charles H. Pepper, have
recently exhibited separate collections of their
drawings. The former, when he opened, his little
show at the Clifford Galleries, was already known
to a large number of English people, but we doubt
if many had then an exact notion of the great
variety of his appeal as a caricaturist, as a sort of
Josh Billings in black and white. Caricature has
often been called a dangerous art, so apt is it not
only to lose its true flavour, its flavour of drollery,
but to become offensively impudent and personal;
for when a man begins to make fun of another's
failings and personal appearance, he needs a play-
ful kindness of heart to save him from cruel errors
of bad taste. To this fact very little attention is
287