DOI Heft:
No. 126 (September, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Wood, Esther: The national competition of schools of art, 1903
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0286
The National Competition
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design for a piano front, coloured gesso, inlaid by kate m. eadie birmingham)
(Huddersfield) was yet another instance of too- of composition and colouring. His fellow-student,
heavy decorative figures. In the silks, prints, William Stewart, sent a fascinating little series of
and heavier tapestries, the Liverpool and designs intended for "dress and drapery silks,"
Bradford students were conspicuous. The design some of which (especially the charming little grey
for a printed hanging by Arthur B. Waller one with a faint pink ornament) would be quite
(Liverpool) was one of the best of the year; the irresistible as boudoir wall-papers. They served at
space was very effectively filled, and the flying geese
among the trees and rivers gave coherence to a
decoration full of movement and vitality. George
Mason (Bradford) is another interesting and
resourceful designer ; his printed silk showed a bold
use of the female figure with peacocks in a broad
repeat £his stencilled hanging was also a fine piece
sgraffito bowl
by laura brocklebank (blackheath)
least as a compensation for the surprising lack
of wall-paper designs. Two Macclesfield students,
Tom H. Bailey and Edwin Moss, also sent
remarkably good textile patterns, notable also for
the precision and thoroughness of the working
plans. Beatrice Brooks (Camberwell) showed an
ingenious and pretty design, based on the
Love-in-a-Mist, and suitable for almost any light
fabric. Lilian Crabb (Plymouth) should be
warmly commended for her painted silk fan.
The stencilled designs were much more numerous
and interesting than in previous years. That of
Harry A. Wright (Bradford) for a church hanging
was a fine decoration in golden bronze, with sym-
bolic figures judiciously treated: and from the same
group in oil colours ° , . , ,
by arthur mackinder ( Lincoln) school came Charles Vv. Smiths refined little study
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" m. \
design for a piano front, coloured gesso, inlaid by kate m. eadie birmingham)
(Huddersfield) was yet another instance of too- of composition and colouring. His fellow-student,
heavy decorative figures. In the silks, prints, William Stewart, sent a fascinating little series of
and heavier tapestries, the Liverpool and designs intended for "dress and drapery silks,"
Bradford students were conspicuous. The design some of which (especially the charming little grey
for a printed hanging by Arthur B. Waller one with a faint pink ornament) would be quite
(Liverpool) was one of the best of the year; the irresistible as boudoir wall-papers. They served at
space was very effectively filled, and the flying geese
among the trees and rivers gave coherence to a
decoration full of movement and vitality. George
Mason (Bradford) is another interesting and
resourceful designer ; his printed silk showed a bold
use of the female figure with peacocks in a broad
repeat £his stencilled hanging was also a fine piece
sgraffito bowl
by laura brocklebank (blackheath)
least as a compensation for the surprising lack
of wall-paper designs. Two Macclesfield students,
Tom H. Bailey and Edwin Moss, also sent
remarkably good textile patterns, notable also for
the precision and thoroughness of the working
plans. Beatrice Brooks (Camberwell) showed an
ingenious and pretty design, based on the
Love-in-a-Mist, and suitable for almost any light
fabric. Lilian Crabb (Plymouth) should be
warmly commended for her painted silk fan.
The stencilled designs were much more numerous
and interesting than in previous years. That of
Harry A. Wright (Bradford) for a church hanging
was a fine decoration in golden bronze, with sym-
bolic figures judiciously treated: and from the same
group in oil colours ° , . , ,
by arthur mackinder ( Lincoln) school came Charles Vv. Smiths refined little study
270