DOI Heft:
No. 105 (December, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0216
Studio- Talk
of imaginative work. It is not, then,
from a technical point of view that Mr.
Laurence Housman is most admirable,
though many seem glad to miss his
real worth as a creative illustrator of
subtle and original charm, in order that
they may bestow a petting admiration
upon the fastidious skill displayed by
his spider-webbing in pen-craftsman-
ship.
B
ARNSTAPLE. — The in-
fluence of The Studio is
not confined to the large
cities; even in a small town
like Barnstaple it makes itself felt.
It stands to the credit of North
Devon, that its metropolis, which has
already a reputation for pottery,
should be showing signs of life
steel plate designed and executed by f. devvdney 1 in metal-working and other crafts.
A Guild has now been formed,
which, for the last nine months, has
is among plants, a thing curiously fanciful and
attractive that suggests a universal imitation.
Of the eighty-two drawings and sketches by
which Mr. Housman was represented at the Fine
Art Society, all but two were in pen and ink; and
the majority were familiar as book illustrations.
The series of drawings for "All Fellows," for
"The Goblin Maiket," and for "The Field of
Clover," and " The End of Elfin Town," were
delightful, though a few of the drawings—take
that of The Fruit Merchants—had a uniform dark
outlining that rendered it difficult to see the figures
in their right planes, so that they looked rather
cramped within their few inches of space.
The perfect harmony of the masses of fine
detail in Mr. Housman's drawings is a grace so
easy to miss, that one cannot enjoy it without
thinking of the perils it has passed through. For
this reason, to an extent more or less obvious,
its appeal is made as a tour de force, somewhat to
its injury as a refinement of subtle art. And it is
worth remembering that this price has to be paid
by every creative worker who chooses the least
simple means of expression, the most hazardous
ways of producing his effects. He is certain to
blend with the art of his appeal some excess of
technical sleight of hand that speaks of a tour de door-plate designed and exe-
force, a thing at variance with the highest pleasures in copper cuted by f. braddon
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of imaginative work. It is not, then,
from a technical point of view that Mr.
Laurence Housman is most admirable,
though many seem glad to miss his
real worth as a creative illustrator of
subtle and original charm, in order that
they may bestow a petting admiration
upon the fastidious skill displayed by
his spider-webbing in pen-craftsman-
ship.
B
ARNSTAPLE. — The in-
fluence of The Studio is
not confined to the large
cities; even in a small town
like Barnstaple it makes itself felt.
It stands to the credit of North
Devon, that its metropolis, which has
already a reputation for pottery,
should be showing signs of life
steel plate designed and executed by f. devvdney 1 in metal-working and other crafts.
A Guild has now been formed,
which, for the last nine months, has
is among plants, a thing curiously fanciful and
attractive that suggests a universal imitation.
Of the eighty-two drawings and sketches by
which Mr. Housman was represented at the Fine
Art Society, all but two were in pen and ink; and
the majority were familiar as book illustrations.
The series of drawings for "All Fellows," for
"The Goblin Maiket," and for "The Field of
Clover," and " The End of Elfin Town," were
delightful, though a few of the drawings—take
that of The Fruit Merchants—had a uniform dark
outlining that rendered it difficult to see the figures
in their right planes, so that they looked rather
cramped within their few inches of space.
The perfect harmony of the masses of fine
detail in Mr. Housman's drawings is a grace so
easy to miss, that one cannot enjoy it without
thinking of the perils it has passed through. For
this reason, to an extent more or less obvious,
its appeal is made as a tour de force, somewhat to
its injury as a refinement of subtle art. And it is
worth remembering that this price has to be paid
by every creative worker who chooses the least
simple means of expression, the most hazardous
ways of producing his effects. He is certain to
blend with the art of his appeal some excess of
technical sleight of hand that speaks of a tour de door-plate designed and exe-
force, a thing at variance with the highest pleasures in copper cuted by f. braddon
203
1