DOI issue:
No. 196 (July, 1909)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0162
Studio-Talk
that he only retained the fan shape
for the reasons we have indicated,
and as an excuse for the silk
surface upon which he preferred
to work. But the fan is only an
incident in the story of his paint-
ing, and to refer to him, as one
writer did at the time of his death,
as the master of the fan, is some-
what to obscure the nature of his
genius as a painter, which was
great enough in itself to be alto-
gether independent of the ends to
which he adapted it.
“ THE FAIRY SHIP : ” PANEL IN BEATEN BRASS BY MARION H. WILSON
“SPRING:” PANEL IN BEATEN COPPER
BY MARION H. WILSON
GLASGOW. — Miss Marion
Wilson, one of the many
aluvmi of the Glasgow
School of Art to develop
marked individuality, works in such
metal mediums as brass, copper, steel
and block tin; selecting her subjects
from the full figure, cherubs’ heads,
ships in full sail, the peacock, the night
owl, and the decorative rose; with
these and other motifs she embellishes
screens, overmantels, hanging and table
clocks, jardinieres, mirror frames, vases,
plaques, sconces, door furniture, electric
bell pushes, switch plates, and other
adjuncts employed in the decoration of
the house. In every case the designing
and craftsmanship are alike distin-
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TWO PANELS IN BEATEN BRASS BY MARION H. WILSON
guished, and the method adopted by the artist,
of throwing the deeper parts of the work into
shadow by smoking the whole metal surface in
the flame of a candle, thereafter polishing the
raised parts, enhances the effect materially. In
such work as that now illustrated, the detail is
all executed with assiduous care, and particularly
in the steel panels and those in “antique brass,”
the contrast of almost black-and-white resulting
from the process described, is most striking.
Like many other modern artists Miss Wilson is
not limited to one department of art; she paints
that he only retained the fan shape
for the reasons we have indicated,
and as an excuse for the silk
surface upon which he preferred
to work. But the fan is only an
incident in the story of his paint-
ing, and to refer to him, as one
writer did at the time of his death,
as the master of the fan, is some-
what to obscure the nature of his
genius as a painter, which was
great enough in itself to be alto-
gether independent of the ends to
which he adapted it.
“ THE FAIRY SHIP : ” PANEL IN BEATEN BRASS BY MARION H. WILSON
“SPRING:” PANEL IN BEATEN COPPER
BY MARION H. WILSON
GLASGOW. — Miss Marion
Wilson, one of the many
aluvmi of the Glasgow
School of Art to develop
marked individuality, works in such
metal mediums as brass, copper, steel
and block tin; selecting her subjects
from the full figure, cherubs’ heads,
ships in full sail, the peacock, the night
owl, and the decorative rose; with
these and other motifs she embellishes
screens, overmantels, hanging and table
clocks, jardinieres, mirror frames, vases,
plaques, sconces, door furniture, electric
bell pushes, switch plates, and other
adjuncts employed in the decoration of
the house. In every case the designing
and craftsmanship are alike distin-
136
TWO PANELS IN BEATEN BRASS BY MARION H. WILSON
guished, and the method adopted by the artist,
of throwing the deeper parts of the work into
shadow by smoking the whole metal surface in
the flame of a candle, thereafter polishing the
raised parts, enhances the effect materially. In
such work as that now illustrated, the detail is
all executed with assiduous care, and particularly
in the steel panels and those in “antique brass,”
the contrast of almost black-and-white resulting
from the process described, is most striking.
Like many other modern artists Miss Wilson is
not limited to one department of art; she paints