DOI Heft:
No. 138 (September, 1904)
DOI Artikel:The National Competition of schools of art, 1904
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0351
The National Competition
DECORATIVE PANEL BY ETHEL STEWART
(MOUNT STREET, LIVERPOOL)
book-covers, and illustrations in black-and-white ;
and the Liverpool (Mount Street) school again
sends examples of the stencilled decorations by
Ethel Stewart and Margaret E. Lloyd which were so
agreeably conspicuous last year. Especially good
are the Village Fair and Mary, Mary, by the latter
student and the Village Street by the former, with
a charming study of a pump and a cat. The best
poster of the group, however, is by a Liverpool
student, Winifred Blackburn, and, being rather
small, is modestly called a window-bill. It is a
delightfully fresh and piquant announcement of a
missionary bazaar, well thought out for printing
in two colours—red and black—and full of interest
in composition and drawing. The figure of the
lady visitor to the bazaar is conceived with a
subtlety of humour and satire not easy to preserve
in work of this kind, and belongs rather to the
spirit of Cranford than to the vacant burlesque of
most modern posters, and the student who can
combine these qualities of artistic sympathy and
imagination with a sound knowledge of her craft
should certainly not be lost sight of. Another
good poster design is by George Cox (Cheltenham)
for an exhibition of students' work.
Chief among the colour-prints are the beautiful
little designs by Margery Wood (Lambeth), which
certainly deserve more than a book prize. If
their style is a little reminiscent of the Millais of
the sixties, they have nevertheless a genuine
inspiration of their own. This student is also
conspicuous in the black-and-white section for
her designs for book illustrations; the one
entitled Forsaken is perhaps the best of a sin-
gularly thoughtful and mature group of work.
Another excellent colour-print, of a girl standing
on a quay, is by James Williams (Newcastle-on-
Tyne), and is carried out with quiet simplicity
and dignity in a low twilight scheme of colour.
Three students from the same school send speci-
mens of illuminated manuscript of fine and
ornate workmanship, of which the best in
colouring is by Ida Taylor; but the general
workmanship and design of A. Jessica Thomp-
son and Alice Armes deserve praise. A simi-
larly good piece of illumination, and particularly
well mounted, is by Mildred M. Brown (Bir-
mingham). The Lambeth traditions are again
carried on by those excellent black-and-white
designers, Janet Simpson and Gertrude Brodie ;
the former, however, confines herself to some
BOOK ILLUSTRATION: " FORSAKEN "
BY MARGERY WOOD (LAMBETH)
327
DECORATIVE PANEL BY ETHEL STEWART
(MOUNT STREET, LIVERPOOL)
book-covers, and illustrations in black-and-white ;
and the Liverpool (Mount Street) school again
sends examples of the stencilled decorations by
Ethel Stewart and Margaret E. Lloyd which were so
agreeably conspicuous last year. Especially good
are the Village Fair and Mary, Mary, by the latter
student and the Village Street by the former, with
a charming study of a pump and a cat. The best
poster of the group, however, is by a Liverpool
student, Winifred Blackburn, and, being rather
small, is modestly called a window-bill. It is a
delightfully fresh and piquant announcement of a
missionary bazaar, well thought out for printing
in two colours—red and black—and full of interest
in composition and drawing. The figure of the
lady visitor to the bazaar is conceived with a
subtlety of humour and satire not easy to preserve
in work of this kind, and belongs rather to the
spirit of Cranford than to the vacant burlesque of
most modern posters, and the student who can
combine these qualities of artistic sympathy and
imagination with a sound knowledge of her craft
should certainly not be lost sight of. Another
good poster design is by George Cox (Cheltenham)
for an exhibition of students' work.
Chief among the colour-prints are the beautiful
little designs by Margery Wood (Lambeth), which
certainly deserve more than a book prize. If
their style is a little reminiscent of the Millais of
the sixties, they have nevertheless a genuine
inspiration of their own. This student is also
conspicuous in the black-and-white section for
her designs for book illustrations; the one
entitled Forsaken is perhaps the best of a sin-
gularly thoughtful and mature group of work.
Another excellent colour-print, of a girl standing
on a quay, is by James Williams (Newcastle-on-
Tyne), and is carried out with quiet simplicity
and dignity in a low twilight scheme of colour.
Three students from the same school send speci-
mens of illuminated manuscript of fine and
ornate workmanship, of which the best in
colouring is by Ida Taylor; but the general
workmanship and design of A. Jessica Thomp-
son and Alice Armes deserve praise. A simi-
larly good piece of illumination, and particularly
well mounted, is by Mildred M. Brown (Bir-
mingham). The Lambeth traditions are again
carried on by those excellent black-and-white
designers, Janet Simpson and Gertrude Brodie ;
the former, however, confines herself to some
BOOK ILLUSTRATION: " FORSAKEN "
BY MARGERY WOOD (LAMBETH)
327