Studio: international art (45.1909)

Studio-Talk

ALTAR FRONTAL AND SUPERFRONTAL

DESIGNED BY A. TROYTE GRIFFITH FOR THE CHURCH OF ST.
ANDREW, PAU, AND WORKED BY MISS HUGGETT AND A PUPIL

the roses and stems are chiefly of gold thread,
and the leaves green velvet ; the dove, grey and
silver ; and the olive branches a beautiful French
lacquered leather with silver stitching. The super-
frontal was worked by Miss Huggett, of Brighton,
and the frontal by one of her pupils, who presented
it to the church of St. Andrew, Pau, France. The
work was designed by Mr. A. Troyte Griffith, of
Great Malvern.

At the Leicester Gallery last month Mr. Rack-
ham’s pictures for a “Midsummer Night’s Dream”
were to be seen. His fairy-like abstractions seem
admirably suited for the subject, only in some

of the drawings they seem
to be overburdened by the
coarser drawing of the
gnarled black trees and the
backgrounds generally.
There are qualities of pure
line work in Mr. Rackham’s
art so sympathetic that we
cannot help thinking they
would tell more with the
backgrounds lightly touched
and subordinated. We
should like to see the
artist give his bewitching
little fairies the centre of the
stage, that they may there
engage us with all that is
most fascinating in the art out of which he has
made them. The “ cooking ” in the achievement
of colour effects for the skies, at one time quite
novel, palls with too much repetition, but the careful
ingenuity of Mr. Rackham’s detail can never pall
and should in our opinion be consciously led up
to, rather than confused with this sort of thing.

LIVERPOOL—The three pictures of Bib-
lical subjects reproduced on these pages
belong to a series of five which have been
executed by Miss MayL, Greville Cooksey
for the Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea at Sea-
forth, where they now fill five panels over the high

“the FINDING IN THE TEMPLE”

BY MAY ; L. G. COOKSEY

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