Studio: international art (37.1906)

Arts and Crafts Exhibition. First Notice

Grafton Gallery. We look in vain for an adequate
representation of the genius of designers like
George Frampton, R. Arming Bell, W. Bainbndge
Reynolds, C R. Macintosh, M. and F. MacDonald,
Annie Macbeth, and many others. We do not
know, and have nothing to do with the reasons
which have prevented the work of such artists being
well represented. We can but deplore the fact
that their work is either not there at all, or at best
but inadequately shown. Complaints are made
by some that the passing craze in England for
objects of Georgian design has for a time obscured
the healthy advance of artistic principles in decora-

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tion. But this is only true to a very limited extent.
There is a gradually growing section of the more
intelligent community who are able to appreciate
good, individual, and thoroughly artistic work.
So long as an artist's work is really excellent he
need not want for patronage. It is the work of the
mere imitator either of ancient or modern design
who is subject to the vicissitudes of fashion. The
true genius, if he will but be entirely true to him-
self, will not fail for lack of appreciation and
patronage. Matters were not always so, but we
venture to think that they are so to-day.

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