DOI Heft:
No. 156 (March, 1906)
DOI Artikel:The arts and crafts exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0162
Arts and Crafts Exhibition. Second Notice
illustration. The embroidered panel by Miss Anne
Macbeth given on p. 133 is the only example of her
beautiful work in this year's exhibition. No one
has carried out the art on principles of pure deco-
ration to a more logical conclusion than Miss
Macbeth. Her regard for colour has always been
one of the prominent features of her designs, a
regard which arises out of a very refined sense of
what is permitted in the licence of contrast and of
what is most suitable in arranging harmoniously flat
spaces of almost pure colours, so as to attain great
delicacy in effect.
bookbinding by douglas cockerell
highly decorative and useful application of the art.
We shall have occasion, in our next article on the
exhibition, to refer to the cushion again, and give an
bookbinding
bookbinding by the essex house press
We referred in our last article to the cut
needlework design by Mrs. Southall, but on
account of our illustration it were well to do so
again. Owing to the simple character of the
material, our illustration conveys very accurately
the many praiseworthy qualities of the design,
and quite effectively hints at the excellence of
the execution, and the precision and sympathy with
which the pattern has been cut. Nothing indicates
more the all-embracing influence of the Society,
when one pauses to think of it, than in turning from
the study of this delicate fabric to catch a glimpse
by douglas cockerell or Mr. Bertram Pegram's large frieze in plaster at
illustration. The embroidered panel by Miss Anne
Macbeth given on p. 133 is the only example of her
beautiful work in this year's exhibition. No one
has carried out the art on principles of pure deco-
ration to a more logical conclusion than Miss
Macbeth. Her regard for colour has always been
one of the prominent features of her designs, a
regard which arises out of a very refined sense of
what is permitted in the licence of contrast and of
what is most suitable in arranging harmoniously flat
spaces of almost pure colours, so as to attain great
delicacy in effect.
bookbinding by douglas cockerell
highly decorative and useful application of the art.
We shall have occasion, in our next article on the
exhibition, to refer to the cushion again, and give an
bookbinding
bookbinding by the essex house press
We referred in our last article to the cut
needlework design by Mrs. Southall, but on
account of our illustration it were well to do so
again. Owing to the simple character of the
material, our illustration conveys very accurately
the many praiseworthy qualities of the design,
and quite effectively hints at the excellence of
the execution, and the precision and sympathy with
which the pattern has been cut. Nothing indicates
more the all-embracing influence of the Society,
when one pauses to think of it, than in turning from
the study of this delicate fabric to catch a glimpse
by douglas cockerell or Mr. Bertram Pegram's large frieze in plaster at