DOI issue:
No. 123 (June, 1903)
DOI issue:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0086
Studio- Talk
DESIGN FOR A BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY H. W. WILEY
Duchess of Sutherland's Cripples' Guild. Fine
embroideries were exhibited by Anne Macbeth
(Glasgow), Mary Newill (Birmingham), and applique
work of good design by Mrs. Osborn (Chester); there
was also a richly-embroidered hanging in green and
gold by the West Bromwich Guild. Furniture
and fittings of a fireplace by H. J. Osborn (Chester),
and specimens of wood-staining by Robert Gray
(Egremont), and stained-glass panels by Sylvester
Sparrow (London) claimed particular notice. Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Gaskin's gold and silver jewellery
and enamels gave general delight. The Haslemere
Peasant Industry sent a fine applique hanging,
The Spies, designed by Godfrey Blount, and several
rich hand-woven rugs, all work of a high quality;
while the St. Edmundsbury Weaving Works, Hasle-
mere, showed tapestries and altar cloths, in silk and
wool and silk and gold thread, of good decorative
design, by Edmund Hunter. H. B. B.
BIRMINGHAM.—There are many things
to be considered when criticising the
work of so important and large a school
as the Birmingham one, and the extensive
collection of students' work exhibited this year
must of course be judged from several standpoints.
It is necessary for students who are intending to
take art-teachers' certificates to execute careful
drawings on specified lines. More than that, since
in every student's training routine work is essential,
and a very great proportion of the students, especi-
ally at the branch schools, are only in the more
elementary stages of that routine, it is evident that
much of the exhibited work must consist of more or
less conventional studies and completed drawings.
And even where the work reaches a higher plane,
most of the results are of value chiefly as a means
of judging the merit of the system of instruction
under which they are produced.
DESIGN FOR A BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY H. W. WILEY
69
DESIGN FOR A BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY H. W. WILEY
Duchess of Sutherland's Cripples' Guild. Fine
embroideries were exhibited by Anne Macbeth
(Glasgow), Mary Newill (Birmingham), and applique
work of good design by Mrs. Osborn (Chester); there
was also a richly-embroidered hanging in green and
gold by the West Bromwich Guild. Furniture
and fittings of a fireplace by H. J. Osborn (Chester),
and specimens of wood-staining by Robert Gray
(Egremont), and stained-glass panels by Sylvester
Sparrow (London) claimed particular notice. Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Gaskin's gold and silver jewellery
and enamels gave general delight. The Haslemere
Peasant Industry sent a fine applique hanging,
The Spies, designed by Godfrey Blount, and several
rich hand-woven rugs, all work of a high quality;
while the St. Edmundsbury Weaving Works, Hasle-
mere, showed tapestries and altar cloths, in silk and
wool and silk and gold thread, of good decorative
design, by Edmund Hunter. H. B. B.
BIRMINGHAM.—There are many things
to be considered when criticising the
work of so important and large a school
as the Birmingham one, and the extensive
collection of students' work exhibited this year
must of course be judged from several standpoints.
It is necessary for students who are intending to
take art-teachers' certificates to execute careful
drawings on specified lines. More than that, since
in every student's training routine work is essential,
and a very great proportion of the students, especi-
ally at the branch schools, are only in the more
elementary stages of that routine, it is evident that
much of the exhibited work must consist of more or
less conventional studies and completed drawings.
And even where the work reaches a higher plane,
most of the results are of value chiefly as a means
of judging the merit of the system of instruction
under which they are produced.
DESIGN FOR A BOOK ILLUSTRATION BY H. W. WILEY
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