DOI Heft:
No. 83 (February, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0059
Studio- Talk
A Winter's Evening. We now give two illustra- from the art centres of Chelsea, Kensington, and
tions of this work. The artist, as will be-seen at a St. John's Wood. What are they to do? They
glance, has been influenced by our modern Pre- can form themselves into a working brotherhood,
Raphaelites, and we cannot choose but hope that and as a check upon their mutual admiration can
he will soon have sufficient confidence in his own invite criticism at public exhibitions of their own.
talents to be entirely original in all his paintings. One little group of young and clever artists, having
But we can say this and yet perceive that A its home in the neighbourhood of Camden Square,
Winter's Evening has many fine qualities. The has already done this, calling itself the Guild of Art
colour is good throughout, there is a pleasant Craftsmen; and we give illustrations to show that
austerity in the composition, and the glow from its productions are varied and meritorious. The
the fire is admirably contrasted with the cold chimney-piece (p. 50), wrought somewhat too
grey light of departing day. If the girls were not heavily in old oak, fumed and polished, was
sadly self-conscious, if they were really dreaming brought to a finish by nearly all the members of
in the radiant dusk, there would be little to invite the guild. It is designed by Mr. G. M. Ellwood;
criticism. the caps of the pilasters are carved by Mr. J.
- Osmond ; the large panel, representing five knights
Artists are gregarious, and it is common know- on their way to a joust, is a fine piece of silver
ledge that their work suffers when they rarely meet repousse work by Mr. Onslow Whiting ; while two
together for discussion. This general interchange circular copper panels, representing The Fight
of thought and criticism is often impossible in and The Victor, are by Mr. Garbe. It will be
London, in some quarters of which a few artists noticed here and there in the illustrations that the
find themselves separated by almost a day's journey Guild of Art Craftsmen is sometimes so modern as
BY CAYLKY ROBINSON
A Winter's Evening. We now give two illustra- from the art centres of Chelsea, Kensington, and
tions of this work. The artist, as will be-seen at a St. John's Wood. What are they to do? They
glance, has been influenced by our modern Pre- can form themselves into a working brotherhood,
Raphaelites, and we cannot choose but hope that and as a check upon their mutual admiration can
he will soon have sufficient confidence in his own invite criticism at public exhibitions of their own.
talents to be entirely original in all his paintings. One little group of young and clever artists, having
But we can say this and yet perceive that A its home in the neighbourhood of Camden Square,
Winter's Evening has many fine qualities. The has already done this, calling itself the Guild of Art
colour is good throughout, there is a pleasant Craftsmen; and we give illustrations to show that
austerity in the composition, and the glow from its productions are varied and meritorious. The
the fire is admirably contrasted with the cold chimney-piece (p. 50), wrought somewhat too
grey light of departing day. If the girls were not heavily in old oak, fumed and polished, was
sadly self-conscious, if they were really dreaming brought to a finish by nearly all the members of
in the radiant dusk, there would be little to invite the guild. It is designed by Mr. G. M. Ellwood;
criticism. the caps of the pilasters are carved by Mr. J.
- Osmond ; the large panel, representing five knights
Artists are gregarious, and it is common know- on their way to a joust, is a fine piece of silver
ledge that their work suffers when they rarely meet repousse work by Mr. Onslow Whiting ; while two
together for discussion. This general interchange circular copper panels, representing The Fight
of thought and criticism is often impossible in and The Victor, are by Mr. Garbe. It will be
London, in some quarters of which a few artists noticed here and there in the illustrations that the
find themselves separated by almost a day's journey Guild of Art Craftsmen is sometimes so modern as
BY CAYLKY ROBINSON