Studio: international art (28.1903)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition

young designer, Mr. Alex-
ander Gascoyne, whose
panel for a door has the
wise economy of line and
judicious use of colour
which have marked his
early work. At present the
treatment of glass doors
and windows, both in
ecclesiastical and domestic
building, shows a certain
stagnation. Failing the
glass itself, however, the
exhibition contains a great
number of cartoons for
this class of design. That
of Mr. H. Dearie (Morris
& Co.), Christ's charge to
St. Peter, and Mr. R.
Anning Bell's Good Sama-

'the snake slayer, pottery panel by leon v. solon

ritan for Atherton Baptist Chapel, have been
already referred to, but there are no fewer than
fifteen of Mr. Bell's designs on view, though in
some cases carried out by other executants.
Three of these are his own beautiful pen-and-ink
drawings for book illustration (including one for
the Pilgrim's Progress); two are for tiles, which
are particularly successful, and seven are cartoons
for stained and leaded glass. These comprise
The Ado?-atio?i of the Shepherds, Virgin and
Child Adored by Angels (a rondel), The Baptism
of Christ, The Adoration of the Magi, and, in
a different vein, Cupid and Psyche. In the
grave and reverent treatment of childhood and
maternity Mr. Anning Bell is always at his best.
Mr. Louis Davis is another designer usually very
happy in his representations of children, though
he approaches them perhaps in a more fanciful
and buoyant manner, and enters more naively
into the spirit of play. His painted shutters,
Scenes from the Lives of Early Missionaries,
are at present rather spoilt by their frame. They
are intended for the altar-piece in the chapel of
the Universities' Mission, Westminster. The
cartoon for a window on the subject of The Dream
of St. Catlierine is very pleasing ; and the designs
for the east windows in the churches of St. Mary
and St. Nicholas, Littlemore, and St. Anselm's,
Pinner, show the steady advance of this artist in
'flora," panel for an overmantel by r. annixg bell ecclesiastical work. Their chief fault lies in the

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