Studio: international art (41.1907)

The National Competition, igoy

of whom more should be heard later on. He is only Frederic Carter of the Polytechnic (Regent Street)

seventeen. The designs for stained glass are fairly show some invention and a considerable diversity of

good, and the credit for nearly all the best of them style ranging from the broadly treated drawings, of

belongs to the Birmingham school. Arrangements which " A Scientific Examination " (see p. 303)

have been made at one end of the exhibition is a good type, to the Beardsleyesque " Pierrot

gallery by which the executed specimens of stained Malade." They are weak in the treatment of some

glass can be seen tolerably well, but there is still of the details, notably in the drawing of hands, but

room in this respect for improvement. this is a defect that study and experience should

Designs for fans are far below the level of other remove,
years, with the single exception of the fan in The weakness of the students' drawing when the

Honiton lace for which Miss Gertrude M. Chapman, figure is treated in design, which was referred to at

of Dover, receives the well-deserved honour of a the commencement of this article, is exemplified in

gold medal (see p. 300). Miss Chapman's design, the exhibition by a large design for a decorative

founded on the rose and its foliage, is admirable in panel with classical figures by a lake. The design

arrangement, and its scale is well fitted to the size itself is not altogether bad, but it is one that should

of a small object like a fan. The sketches for the not have been attempted by any student unless his

fan-ends in silver and mother-of-pearl, and for the knowledge of drawing from the nude was moder-

small sticks in mother-of-pearl alone, which accom- ately extensive, and the same criticism applies to

pany the design for the fan and the worked example, most of the sketches for figure decoration shown

are not so good as that for the lace itself. The on the same screen. The decorative painting in

design for a painted plaque by Miss Gladys Luke spirit fresco by Miss Gwynedd Hudson of the

of Plymouth Technical School has a border of Brighton School of Art (see page 299) has some

conventionalized waves and Elizabethan ships which qualities of colour, but it seems impossible that it

is too good for the portrait of the Virgin Queen could look well set in a space on a panelled wall

that it surrounds. But the border is capital, and as indicated by the student in the small sketch that
there is promise in another
design for painted pottery by

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land, a bowl the inside of
which is decorated with long-
tended arms linked together

and attractive, but it is ques-
tionable whether children

design by Mr. Hugh Hepburn

of Newcastle-on-Tyne for the t _ JH

illuminated page of a book,

and a pen-and-ink picture of ^mm^
the Parable of the Ten Virgins

(see p. 301) is effective in ^^^M^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

arrangement. The designs

d _ d portion of a music cabinet

for book illustration by Mr. designed and executed by wm. s. Williamson (Bridgwater

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