Studio: international art (35.1905)

Studio- Talk

ELECTRIC LIGHT SCONCE IN SILVER AND BY ALEXANDER FISHER

STEEL, WITH BRASS AND ENAMELS

worked together, with the
infinite freedom of the one
slightly restrained by the
other. Mr. Borough John-
son is always masterly with
the pencil, and this drawing
is more sympathetic and
sensitive in technique than
usual; it has the sentiment
of a real work of art and a
happy suggestion of colour.
These are substantiated by
the sound and scholarly
draughtsmanship that is
so characteristic of Mr.
Borough Johnson’s work.

It cannot be said that
the present exhibition at
the New Gallery differs
much in its general charac-
ter from those by which it
has been preceded during
the last few years. It pos-
sesses most of the features
which have become char-
acteristic of the shows

Mr. Alexander Fisher. Mr.
Fisher is the greatest master
of silver-craft now creating
among us. His amazing
fertility of invention over-
flows from one object to
another, conceiving and
executing a never-ending
variety of shapes, embellish-
ing some and simplifying
others at the dictation of
an inexhaustible fancy. As
an enameller his reputation
would be difficult to in-
crease. The reproductions
here given from his recent
exhibition at the Dowdes-
well Galleries show the
qualities that have made his
reputation both as a silver-
worker and an enameller.

We have in Mr. E.
Borough Johnson’s draw7-
ing of a Mother and Child,
water - colours and line
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BRACKET FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT IN BRONZE : BY ALEXANDER FISHER

“SELENE, THE MOON GODDESS”