DOI issue:
No. 178 (January, 1908)
DOI article:Garstin, Norman: On stencil cutting: an open letter from Mr. Norman Garstin
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0346
Studio-Talk
beauty in no small measure in the delicate Mr. Nelson Dawson has lately made somewhat
matching and contrast of one softly-coloured of a departure in the technique of jewellery work
piece of drapery with another, and in the dis- in his treatment of enamel and gold. For his
position of lines. In all these illustrations to purpose he has invented an especial ground of
the famous stories his women are drawn with precious metal which has given him rare results in
careful regard for beauty, and it is only in the brilliancy of colour, whilst forming a safe base for
faces of the men that his treatment approaches the enamel. Mr. Dawson has thus surmounted
the grotesque ; but on the whole he keeps this two of the greatest difficulties in the art of the
element within the bounds appropriate to the goldsmith, and visitors to a recent private exhibition
subject. of his work were rewarded by seeing achievements
greatly in advance of anything hitherto attempted
We have had occasion more than once to refer in a similar direction,
our readers to Miss A. M. Bauerle's work as an etcher
for pleasantly imaginative qualities and appreciation T IVERPOOL.—Since the removal of his
of childhood. The recent plate of hers called studio to London the periodical visits
A Casual Meeting, which we reproduce, is an of Robert Fowler to Liverpool are
attractive specimen of her art. ^ ^ welcomed as keeping him in touch with
- his many friends and admirers here. A choice
Considerable progress has been made during the little collection of his landscapes in oil, lately on
last year or two in colour photography. Many view in the tasteful galleries of Messrs. Grindley &
experimenters have been at work on different lines, Palmer, were all remarkable for extreme brilliancy
and already some remarkable results have been of illumination without loss of delicacy and re-
attained. As an example of what can be done finement. It would be difficult to imagine that
with a single plate, the accompanying reproduction paint could be carried further in this one particular
of Mr. Alvin Langdon Coburn's " autochrome " direction, as evidenced especially in the 22-in. by
photograph of Miss Lillah McCarthy, the actress, 16-in. pictures entitled Fitful Gleams, Orme's Head;
will, we are sure, interest our readers, whether they Snowdon, from Beddgelert Road—Noonday; and
have followed recent developments or not. Our Mountain Stream—Sunny Afternoon. Of course,
reproduction is, of course,
made from the trans-
parency itself, no means
having yet been found of
taking a print from one of
these plates.
Mr. Augustus John ex-
hibited his drawings at the
Carfax Galleries at the be-
ginning of last month.
There was considerable
variety in the work brought
together, but there was also
evident an inequality and
indecision of purpose not
easily explained. But let
Mr. John be as obscure
as he will, and though
his work is misun-
derstood to the full, a
vitality underlying and
quite independent of any
shape his art may take,
betrays itself in his draw-
ings for our admiration. "a casual meeting" (etching) by Amelia m. baueele
312
it
beauty in no small measure in the delicate Mr. Nelson Dawson has lately made somewhat
matching and contrast of one softly-coloured of a departure in the technique of jewellery work
piece of drapery with another, and in the dis- in his treatment of enamel and gold. For his
position of lines. In all these illustrations to purpose he has invented an especial ground of
the famous stories his women are drawn with precious metal which has given him rare results in
careful regard for beauty, and it is only in the brilliancy of colour, whilst forming a safe base for
faces of the men that his treatment approaches the enamel. Mr. Dawson has thus surmounted
the grotesque ; but on the whole he keeps this two of the greatest difficulties in the art of the
element within the bounds appropriate to the goldsmith, and visitors to a recent private exhibition
subject. of his work were rewarded by seeing achievements
greatly in advance of anything hitherto attempted
We have had occasion more than once to refer in a similar direction,
our readers to Miss A. M. Bauerle's work as an etcher
for pleasantly imaginative qualities and appreciation T IVERPOOL.—Since the removal of his
of childhood. The recent plate of hers called studio to London the periodical visits
A Casual Meeting, which we reproduce, is an of Robert Fowler to Liverpool are
attractive specimen of her art. ^ ^ welcomed as keeping him in touch with
- his many friends and admirers here. A choice
Considerable progress has been made during the little collection of his landscapes in oil, lately on
last year or two in colour photography. Many view in the tasteful galleries of Messrs. Grindley &
experimenters have been at work on different lines, Palmer, were all remarkable for extreme brilliancy
and already some remarkable results have been of illumination without loss of delicacy and re-
attained. As an example of what can be done finement. It would be difficult to imagine that
with a single plate, the accompanying reproduction paint could be carried further in this one particular
of Mr. Alvin Langdon Coburn's " autochrome " direction, as evidenced especially in the 22-in. by
photograph of Miss Lillah McCarthy, the actress, 16-in. pictures entitled Fitful Gleams, Orme's Head;
will, we are sure, interest our readers, whether they Snowdon, from Beddgelert Road—Noonday; and
have followed recent developments or not. Our Mountain Stream—Sunny Afternoon. Of course,
reproduction is, of course,
made from the trans-
parency itself, no means
having yet been found of
taking a print from one of
these plates.
Mr. Augustus John ex-
hibited his drawings at the
Carfax Galleries at the be-
ginning of last month.
There was considerable
variety in the work brought
together, but there was also
evident an inequality and
indecision of purpose not
easily explained. But let
Mr. John be as obscure
as he will, and though
his work is misun-
derstood to the full, a
vitality underlying and
quite independent of any
shape his art may take,
betrays itself in his draw-
ings for our admiration. "a casual meeting" (etching) by Amelia m. baueele
312
it