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Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20710#0279
Studio-Talk
is the enterprise which has been undertaken by
Miss Sara Purser, R.H.A., who, in the midst of a
busy career as a portrait painter of high merit and
marked originality, has found time to establish in
Dublin a workshop for the manufacture of stained
and painted glass. "An Tur Gloine "—"The
Tower of Glass "—is at once a craft school, where
instruction in every detail connected with the
designing and production of stained glass is given
to the workers, and a factory from which some
beautiful work has already appeared, and which
threatens eventually to banish altogether mechanical
Munich windows from Irish churches. The estab-
lishment of this art industry in Ireland is an example
of what may be done by meeting a demand that
already exists. Hundreds of thousands of pounds
were annually being sent out of Ireland, where
church building has gone on actively for the past
two decades, for ecclesiastical stained glass that
was, generally speaking, bad in design, in quality,
and in workmanship. Amongst the windows that
have been completed at " An Tur Gloine" are
a set of six for the new cathedral at Loughrea,
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a church in which, for the first time in modern
days, all the decorative work is Irish in feeling
and inspiration, as well as in execution. The
establishment of a modern school of stained glass
in Ireland, such as " An Tur Gloine," is a most
hopeful event, as it provides what has hitherto
been lacking, a practical field for the talent and
energy of the Irish art-student to work in.
E. D.
COPENHAGEN.—Louis Moe is a Nor-
wegian by birth, but he has for a number
of years been domiciled in Copen-
hagen, whence he every summer
betakes himself to his beloved and picturesque
mountain home in Telemarken. He was originally a
painter in oils; but by degrees he has almost com-
pletely discarded this medium, and instead taken
to pen, pencil, and needle. He is an admirable
and very popular illustrator; and although the
first of the score of etchings he has so far pub-
lished only appeared some three or four years ago,
he is already an etcher of repute. The evolution
is the enterprise which has been undertaken by
Miss Sara Purser, R.H.A., who, in the midst of a
busy career as a portrait painter of high merit and
marked originality, has found time to establish in
Dublin a workshop for the manufacture of stained
and painted glass. "An Tur Gloine "—"The
Tower of Glass "—is at once a craft school, where
instruction in every detail connected with the
designing and production of stained glass is given
to the workers, and a factory from which some
beautiful work has already appeared, and which
threatens eventually to banish altogether mechanical
Munich windows from Irish churches. The estab-
lishment of this art industry in Ireland is an example
of what may be done by meeting a demand that
already exists. Hundreds of thousands of pounds
were annually being sent out of Ireland, where
church building has gone on actively for the past
two decades, for ecclesiastical stained glass that
was, generally speaking, bad in design, in quality,
and in workmanship. Amongst the windows that
have been completed at " An Tur Gloine" are
a set of six for the new cathedral at Loughrea,
262
a church in which, for the first time in modern
days, all the decorative work is Irish in feeling
and inspiration, as well as in execution. The
establishment of a modern school of stained glass
in Ireland, such as " An Tur Gloine," is a most
hopeful event, as it provides what has hitherto
been lacking, a practical field for the talent and
energy of the Irish art-student to work in.
E. D.
COPENHAGEN.—Louis Moe is a Nor-
wegian by birth, but he has for a number
of years been domiciled in Copen-
hagen, whence he every summer
betakes himself to his beloved and picturesque
mountain home in Telemarken. He was originally a
painter in oils; but by degrees he has almost com-
pletely discarded this medium, and instead taken
to pen, pencil, and needle. He is an admirable
and very popular illustrator; and although the
first of the score of etchings he has so far pub-
lished only appeared some three or four years ago,
he is already an etcher of repute. The evolution