Studio: international art (28.1903)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition

exhibition being due, for
if there is one thing more
injurious to an Arts and
Crafts Society than the
flattery of raw juvenile
efforts, it is the tolerance
of works admitted merely
in consideration of the
exhibitors' names.

Much has been hoped
from the Arts and Crafts
Society in the way of
raising the standard of
public architecture and
decoration, but the present
exhibition reveals but a
limited progress in that
direction. This may be
due partly to the oft-
lamented depravity of pub-
lic taste, and partly to a
lack of vitality in the
firescreen by haroi.d cooper Society itselfj two causes

which re-act intimately

Heal. A first glance round the galleries also upon each other. Broadly speaking, the public is
assures us of exhibits by Mr. George Frampton, not far wrong in taking the leaders of this Society
A.R.A., Mr. R. Anning Bell,

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Jack, Mr. Arthur W. Simp-
son, Mr. G. LI. Morris, Mr.
Sidney H. Barnsley, Mr.
Harrison Townsend, the
leading members of the
Bromsgrove Guild of Metal
Workers, the Birmingham
Guild of Handicraft, the
Keswick School of Industrial
Arts, and the Central School
of Arts and Crafts in Regent
Street. With the exception
of this last, which makes a
very creditable show, there
is certainly matter for regret
in the small total of works
sent in from the public tech-
nical schools, which both in
London and elsewhere have
multiplied, developed, and in
some cases wholly renewed
their constituents since the
exhibition of 1899. It would
surely have been worth while
to acquaint all such students
with the fact of another cabinet

. by harold cooper

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