DOI issue:
Nr. 121 (April 1903)
DOI article:The Arts & Crafts Exhibition at the New Gallery: third notice
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19878#0195
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition
designs for flat surfaces was cne ot the
best qualities of the hanging committee;
enabling them rightly to include such
diverse methods of space-filling as Mr. _ - '} / (
C. F. A. Voysey's and Mr. Lewis F. V>V V, ' S ft*
Day's; and the tiles sent by those two \y j$- ' jf > jl
so opposite designers are an apt illus- j< V , <
tration of their difference. For Mr. 1
Voysey a single spray often suffices, with • /f'-v
its leaf and blossom, to exemplify "the * » } V , \ )f ";Kt:>"; > ./
art of filling a flat space without covering | ■' \ > Y\
it"—which has somewhere been claimed s*^* ..\ \\ W it m I s
as the distinctive note of Japanese work. «^ ^' \-< > ) J
On the other hand, the tiles and pottery 'V \ ■{ .*< ' /
panels exhibited by Mr. Lewis F. Day .
were richly floreated and lavish of colour x^'" "\* v \ ^ P
in a great variety of designs. The cubicle /S A j
furnished by him in association with v' A > J \
Miss Bradley and Miss Barlow, Messrs.
Lawrence Hall, T. F. Evans, A. J.
Kwiatkowski, and the Pilkington Pottery
Company, afforded an excellent study of decorative panel by miss e. m. rope
what may be done with coloured glazes,
even " to meet the conditions of practical
manufacture," as the exhibitor says. The tiles a the achievement of colour in the firing processes :
and m in this group were particularly fine in colour, this is a small triptych in bronze and enamel by Mrs.
and in strong masses of decoration, blending Geraldine Carr, with panels by W. Dacres Adams,
harmonious greens and blues with Indian red The subject—an incantation—is treated with dignity
of a very well-chosen quality. In the opposite and imaginative charm, and the. technique, both in
recess was a notable piece of enamelling in a design and colouring, is uniformly good. The
more ambitious class of work, but which may decoration is beautifully mounted and its total
conveniently be mentioned here as bearing on effect workmanlike and pleasant to the eye.
by r. morton nance
l83
designs for flat surfaces was cne ot the
best qualities of the hanging committee;
enabling them rightly to include such
diverse methods of space-filling as Mr. _ - '} / (
C. F. A. Voysey's and Mr. Lewis F. V>V V, ' S ft*
Day's; and the tiles sent by those two \y j$- ' jf > jl
so opposite designers are an apt illus- j< V , <
tration of their difference. For Mr. 1
Voysey a single spray often suffices, with • /f'-v
its leaf and blossom, to exemplify "the * » } V , \ )f ";Kt:>"; > ./
art of filling a flat space without covering | ■' \ > Y\
it"—which has somewhere been claimed s*^* ..\ \\ W it m I s
as the distinctive note of Japanese work. «^ ^' \-< > ) J
On the other hand, the tiles and pottery 'V \ ■{ .*< ' /
panels exhibited by Mr. Lewis F. Day .
were richly floreated and lavish of colour x^'" "\* v \ ^ P
in a great variety of designs. The cubicle /S A j
furnished by him in association with v' A > J \
Miss Bradley and Miss Barlow, Messrs.
Lawrence Hall, T. F. Evans, A. J.
Kwiatkowski, and the Pilkington Pottery
Company, afforded an excellent study of decorative panel by miss e. m. rope
what may be done with coloured glazes,
even " to meet the conditions of practical
manufacture," as the exhibitor says. The tiles a the achievement of colour in the firing processes :
and m in this group were particularly fine in colour, this is a small triptych in bronze and enamel by Mrs.
and in strong masses of decoration, blending Geraldine Carr, with panels by W. Dacres Adams,
harmonious greens and blues with Indian red The subject—an incantation—is treated with dignity
of a very well-chosen quality. In the opposite and imaginative charm, and the. technique, both in
recess was a notable piece of enamelling in a design and colouring, is uniformly good. The
more ambitious class of work, but which may decoration is beautifully mounted and its total
conveniently be mentioned here as bearing on effect workmanlike and pleasant to the eye.
by r. morton nance
l83