Studio: international art (20.1900)

Studio- Talk

West of Ireland, where he has completed a number
of interesting works. Our illustration is a reduced
sketch of one of his new pictures which will be
exhibited in London shortly. E. D.

GLASGOW.—We have pleasure in giving
herewith reproductions of some recent
stained glass by Messrs. Stephen
Adam & Son, who have done and are
doing much noteworthy work. While they cannot
be said to have departed from the accepted

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the jewel-like translucent qualities of glass that is
good in itself. Of Messrs. Stephen Adam & Son
it can be said with truth that in their work they
endeavour to cultivate the purity and principles of
earlier work, and by a careful avoidance of the
doubtful methods which brought about the decay

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traditions which usually govern the design of stained
glass, their work is throughout distinguished by
soundness of treatment based on a wholesome and
intelligent appreciation of the limitations of the
material in which they work. They recognise that
mere manipulation of glass is not necessarily art,—
that a higher standard of art, and infinitely better
results are attained if design and execution are
modified by the simple rules the material renders
possible. To attempt to make more of any
medium, whether it be glass, metal, marble, or wood,
than the natural material is capable of express-
ing is to destroy the truth in it, and no painstaking
application of mechanical processes can increase
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