DOI issue:
No. 126 (September, 1903)
DOI article:Wood, Esther: The national competition of schools of art, 1903
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0276
The National Competition
overmantel by Gladys M.
Baly (Regent Street) was
well conceived and con-
scientiously drawn, and that
of Louise R. Jacobs (Hull),
intended for a nursery, was
one of the best of the year.
It represented a group of
little girls dancing by the
light of lanterns held in
the trees above them by
what appeared at first to be
witches, but turned out to
be "fairy godfathers" 01
DESIGN FOR A LACE FAN BY CLARA LAVINGTON (LEEDS) 1mte a n0Vel kUld> The
design was sparsely and
flatly drawn, but full of ani-
was exercised in harmonious colouring; and the very mation and fanciful charm. In a contrasting vein
successful panels for an oak coffer by Henry Perrett was the serious and genuinely decorative little altar-
(Regent Street). panel by Elizabeth Davies (Newcastle-on-Tyne).
Two other piano- Certainly one of the prettiest decorations by
fronts came also women students was the painted frieze for a ball-
from Birmingham room by Winifred L. Stamp (Regent Street). Here
—one by Geral- the variety and charm -of the dancing figures,
dine Morris, who drawn from all the "seven ages," were highly
is known for her creditable to the draughtswoman, and the scheme
black - and - white was remarkably well balanced in interest, as in corn-
designs, and one position and colour. Exception might be taken
by Jessie Lacon, to the uniform puffiness of the swirling draperies,
the latter to be as though the whole procession were dancing in a
carried out in high wind; but this perhaps enhances the sense of
stained wood. motion and gaiety that was intended. Another
The design for an and more sober frieze-design by Arthur Paul
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BELLOWS
BY J. W. WILKINSON
(LANCASTER) BOOK-COVER BY GERTRUDE BUTLER (BIRMINGHAM)
260
overmantel by Gladys M.
Baly (Regent Street) was
well conceived and con-
scientiously drawn, and that
of Louise R. Jacobs (Hull),
intended for a nursery, was
one of the best of the year.
It represented a group of
little girls dancing by the
light of lanterns held in
the trees above them by
what appeared at first to be
witches, but turned out to
be "fairy godfathers" 01
DESIGN FOR A LACE FAN BY CLARA LAVINGTON (LEEDS) 1mte a n0Vel kUld> The
design was sparsely and
flatly drawn, but full of ani-
was exercised in harmonious colouring; and the very mation and fanciful charm. In a contrasting vein
successful panels for an oak coffer by Henry Perrett was the serious and genuinely decorative little altar-
(Regent Street). panel by Elizabeth Davies (Newcastle-on-Tyne).
Two other piano- Certainly one of the prettiest decorations by
fronts came also women students was the painted frieze for a ball-
from Birmingham room by Winifred L. Stamp (Regent Street). Here
—one by Geral- the variety and charm -of the dancing figures,
dine Morris, who drawn from all the "seven ages," were highly
is known for her creditable to the draughtswoman, and the scheme
black - and - white was remarkably well balanced in interest, as in corn-
designs, and one position and colour. Exception might be taken
by Jessie Lacon, to the uniform puffiness of the swirling draperies,
the latter to be as though the whole procession were dancing in a
carried out in high wind; but this perhaps enhances the sense of
stained wood. motion and gaiety that was intended. Another
The design for an and more sober frieze-design by Arthur Paul
*°?x \ /
■■am** f^m^s^
x^c^^?%
f»8iXX \ J.-"f>^ \\; ; gf^
BELLOWS
BY J. W. WILKINSON
(LANCASTER) BOOK-COVER BY GERTRUDE BUTLER (BIRMINGHAM)
260