Studio: international art (39.1907)

Studio- Talk

For the five cottage block, simple and effective STUDIO-TALK

designs were submitted by Mr. Naseby Adams (From our own Correspondents)

(first prize), Mr. T. J. M. Reid, Mr. T. Pickmere, W ONDON.—Messrs. Paterson are holding

Mr. Wilfrid Deacon, Mr. Edgar Quiggan, and Mr. at their gallery in Bond Street an ex-

T. V. Henshaw. Several designs submitted, though hibition of the delicate and suggestive

well planned, had obviously too expensive features." * • art of the late Mr. William E. Osborn,

whose death at a premature age recently occurred
in Chelsea. The deceased painter's art was formed
within the theoretical limitations which Whistler

" THE STUDIO " YEAR BOOK OF applied) andj as a consequence, it is essentially

DECORATIVE ART, 1907. aristocratic in'its aim. His fastidious sense of

The second number of this Year Book is now colour and conscientious regard for truth of tone

in preparation. Prominent among the new features could not fail but to endow his work with distinc-

to be introduced will be a section devoted exclu- tion. Such intense refinement as is apparent in

sively to Domestic Architecture, and the Editor it is seldom if ever coupled with that virility

will be glad to receive drawings or photographs of without which an artist has little chance of obtain-

recent work of this nature, in addition to designs, ing immediate recognition. That a wider recogni-

etc, suitable as illustrations to the various subjects tion of Mr. Osborn's qualities as a painter will

dealt with in the first Year Book. These should follow the exhibition of his works, we do not

reach us not later than November 4th, and bear doubt; for art is rare which, like this, declining

the name of the designer (and manufacturer, if the competition of large exhibitions, contents itself

necessary), with a short descriptive title of the with being so purely the personal and individual

design. expression of a refined temperament.

'THE BLUE RIVER" BY WILLIAM E. OSBORN

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