DOI issue:
No. 163 (October, 1906)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0088
Studio-Talk
Creditable as an example of craftsmanship is
the handsome memorial tablet, here reproduced,
commemorating the gift by Mr. Andrew Carnegie
of a free public library at West Derby to the
Corporation of Liverpool. The work has been
executed in beaten copper by Mr. C. E. Thompson
and his assistant, Walter Millar. Translucent
enamels on copper are inserted in the design, and
those of ruby-coloured ground are splashed with
other colours, fired on silver and gold foil,
giving the effect of clustered emeralds, sapphires,
amethysts, etc. The copper being coloured to a
rich dark bronze, satisfactorily enhances the effect
of the inserted enamels. H. B. B.
kRESCOT, LANCS.—In September ot
last year was cut short a career of great
"the seasons"—a set of by j. h. morcom promise in the art of landscape-painting,
medallions in silver
P
as the few who have seen what remains
of the little-known work of Sydney Pilkington have
The painting records one of the loveliest scenes not failed to realise. His years of production were
of North Wales in the vicinity of Bala, to which few. The second son of Col. W. W. Pilkington, of
locality the artist has recently removed his Prescot, Lancashire, he was educated at Shrewsbury
permanent residence. and proceeded to Christchurch, Oxford. Leaving
- the University after a short residence, in order to
Mr. J. Herbert Morcom's sculptured work is devote himself to painting, he spent two years at
distinguished always by poetic feeling, graceful the Slade School under Professor Brown, where he
composition, intelligent and conscientious model- showed already a singular individuality of thought
ling. Protection, a plaster-cast about two-thirds and feeling. The next few years were spent mainly
life size, and Study of a Head, full size, both re- at Salford in Worcestershire, where the drawings
produced on the preceding page, represent perhaps here reproduced were done, under the influence of
his most successful work.
The smaller compositions
of The Seasons are de-
signed for silver medal-
lions to be set in the
dark oak panels of a re-
volving bookcase. Fore-
warned that residence in
a more congenial climate
is a necessary condition
to the safety and main-
tenance of his health, Mr.
Morcom's many friends
can only regretfully ac-
quiesce in his projected
departure for sunny Cali-
fornia, in the hope that
he may there obtain con-
tinuance of strength for
exercise of his undoubted
talent in the newer
sphere.
:
■ ±~A. c/J«j " rJ > ■-> •■ ■•> " ■■-■sis '.-^, -7^mU£S
- of?:
- memorial tablet by c. e. thompson and walter millar
68
Creditable as an example of craftsmanship is
the handsome memorial tablet, here reproduced,
commemorating the gift by Mr. Andrew Carnegie
of a free public library at West Derby to the
Corporation of Liverpool. The work has been
executed in beaten copper by Mr. C. E. Thompson
and his assistant, Walter Millar. Translucent
enamels on copper are inserted in the design, and
those of ruby-coloured ground are splashed with
other colours, fired on silver and gold foil,
giving the effect of clustered emeralds, sapphires,
amethysts, etc. The copper being coloured to a
rich dark bronze, satisfactorily enhances the effect
of the inserted enamels. H. B. B.
kRESCOT, LANCS.—In September ot
last year was cut short a career of great
"the seasons"—a set of by j. h. morcom promise in the art of landscape-painting,
medallions in silver
P
as the few who have seen what remains
of the little-known work of Sydney Pilkington have
The painting records one of the loveliest scenes not failed to realise. His years of production were
of North Wales in the vicinity of Bala, to which few. The second son of Col. W. W. Pilkington, of
locality the artist has recently removed his Prescot, Lancashire, he was educated at Shrewsbury
permanent residence. and proceeded to Christchurch, Oxford. Leaving
- the University after a short residence, in order to
Mr. J. Herbert Morcom's sculptured work is devote himself to painting, he spent two years at
distinguished always by poetic feeling, graceful the Slade School under Professor Brown, where he
composition, intelligent and conscientious model- showed already a singular individuality of thought
ling. Protection, a plaster-cast about two-thirds and feeling. The next few years were spent mainly
life size, and Study of a Head, full size, both re- at Salford in Worcestershire, where the drawings
produced on the preceding page, represent perhaps here reproduced were done, under the influence of
his most successful work.
The smaller compositions
of The Seasons are de-
signed for silver medal-
lions to be set in the
dark oak panels of a re-
volving bookcase. Fore-
warned that residence in
a more congenial climate
is a necessary condition
to the safety and main-
tenance of his health, Mr.
Morcom's many friends
can only regretfully ac-
quiesce in his projected
departure for sunny Cali-
fornia, in the hope that
he may there obtain con-
tinuance of strength for
exercise of his undoubted
talent in the newer
sphere.
:
■ ±~A. c/J«j " rJ > ■-> •■ ■•> " ■■-■sis '.-^, -7^mU£S
- of?:
- memorial tablet by c. e. thompson and walter millar
68