Studio: international art (30.1904)

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PORTION OF rOSTER FOR THE NORTHERN BY HUGH WALLIS

ART WORKERS' GUILD EXHIBITION

lovely bit of colour, but rather wanting
in design, while the clear glass cabinet-
panel is a very well arranged piece of
leading.

H. Gustave Hiller's leaded light,
No. 84, is simple and pleasing; his
St. John of Beverley is good, but not
quite so satisfactory as the Bishop in
his gesso panel for reredos. He also has
three good cartoons for figure panels.
A leaded light by E. Fletcher Clayton is
charming in colour, but rather formless ;
some of his small sketches are better in
this respect. R. Anning Bell has fine
cartoons of The Adoration of the Shep-
herds for two tall narrow lights, and a
most delightful little rondel, Virgin and
Child and Angels. Drawings of several
small glazed panels by Edgar Wood are
vigorous and promise excellent results
in execution.

Hugh Wallis has a strong exhibit; his
life-time. Some eighty or more canvases have large cartoon for a mural decoration is a good char-
been got together, mostly from personal friends of coal drawing, and the pleasing touch of colour in one
the dead artist, and in viewing them one can
scarcely believe that works of such real dis-
tinction could have failed to win the renown,
during his lifetime, which is the rightful
reward of every gifted worker. A review of
his work, together with reproductions from
several of his paintings, will appear in a future
number of The Studio.

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ANCHESTER.—The Northern
Art Workers' Guild has just held
its second exhibition, and for
three weeks a small but interesting
selection of members' work has been on view
at the Municipal School of Technology. Some
excellent stained glass is arranged in the walls
of an enclosure in the centre of the room, from
within which the glass can be well seen.
Walter J. Pearce's Dancing Girl, with flying
drapery of a glorious blue colour, is most
striking, the lower part of it being admirable in
effect. The result is gained by a rather
novel method, the surface being modelled to
get an extra thickness of glass where the dark
folds of drapery are wanted. A long three-light
panel has an effective bold design of poppies.
Among several other good examples by Mr.
Pearce the nettle-leaved bell-flower panel is a
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