DOI Heft:
Nr. 150 (September 1905)
DOI Artikel:The National Competition of schools of art, 1905
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20712#0335
The National Competition
DESIGN FOR BY WILLIAM BANBURY
OVERMANTEL PANEL (LEICESTER, THE NEWARKE)
work of the year. This student shows some
excellent modelling in plaster for an over-
mantel panel, a medallion, and a mirror-back ;
also a simple and dignified memorial tablet,
in which the fine quality of the lettering and
the restrained treatment of the decorative
figures deserve special praise. His work is
singularly fresh and vital, while its imagina-
tive power is well controlled. It challenges
comparison with the work of another gold
medallist, William Banbury (same school),
whose exhibits are on very similar lines.
This student shows a mirror-back design of
great imaginative beauty—Amor et Vanitas,
and a vigorous panel in high relief, The
Coming of Spring. Winifred Stamp (Regent
Street Polytechnic), whose best work is found
among the black and white, sends a pleasing
design for the decoration of a summer-house ;
and the panel in monochrome by James
Skinner (Burslem) is a very thoughtful and
satisfying piece of decoration. Edith M.
become an arts and crafts exhibition. One
cannot properly show specimens of “applied”
art without showing what it is to be applied
to, and one naturally regards the encourage-
ment of applied art as the chief end of the
National Competition.
The understanding of the material is of
primary importance to the designer. The
designer for textile fabrics should be thoroughly
acquainted with all the limitations and the
possibilities of the loom. The furniture
draughtsman should be practically proficient
in the laws of construction as applied to his
subject; and this same practical acquaint-
anceship is necessary in every form of artistic
craftsmanship. This qualification is recog-
nised in some of the schools ; and the more
widely it is extended, the more useful will the
schools become.
Among the more ambitious architectural
and mural decorations are the designs of
Robert J. Emerson, of the Leicester school,
which sends some of the most distinguished
DESIGN FOR
OVERMANTEL PANEL
BY R. J. EMERSON
(LEICESTER, THE NEWARKE)
3*7
DESIGN FOR BY WILLIAM BANBURY
OVERMANTEL PANEL (LEICESTER, THE NEWARKE)
work of the year. This student shows some
excellent modelling in plaster for an over-
mantel panel, a medallion, and a mirror-back ;
also a simple and dignified memorial tablet,
in which the fine quality of the lettering and
the restrained treatment of the decorative
figures deserve special praise. His work is
singularly fresh and vital, while its imagina-
tive power is well controlled. It challenges
comparison with the work of another gold
medallist, William Banbury (same school),
whose exhibits are on very similar lines.
This student shows a mirror-back design of
great imaginative beauty—Amor et Vanitas,
and a vigorous panel in high relief, The
Coming of Spring. Winifred Stamp (Regent
Street Polytechnic), whose best work is found
among the black and white, sends a pleasing
design for the decoration of a summer-house ;
and the panel in monochrome by James
Skinner (Burslem) is a very thoughtful and
satisfying piece of decoration. Edith M.
become an arts and crafts exhibition. One
cannot properly show specimens of “applied”
art without showing what it is to be applied
to, and one naturally regards the encourage-
ment of applied art as the chief end of the
National Competition.
The understanding of the material is of
primary importance to the designer. The
designer for textile fabrics should be thoroughly
acquainted with all the limitations and the
possibilities of the loom. The furniture
draughtsman should be practically proficient
in the laws of construction as applied to his
subject; and this same practical acquaint-
anceship is necessary in every form of artistic
craftsmanship. This qualification is recog-
nised in some of the schools ; and the more
widely it is extended, the more useful will the
schools become.
Among the more ambitious architectural
and mural decorations are the designs of
Robert J. Emerson, of the Leicester school,
which sends some of the most distinguished
DESIGN FOR
OVERMANTEL PANEL
BY R. J. EMERSON
(LEICESTER, THE NEWARKE)
3*7