DOI Heft:
No. 198 (September, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Artikel:Art School notes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0360
Art School Notes
PEASANT INTERIOR AT THE STOCKHOLM EXHIBITION. FURNITURE & FABRICS NEWLY EXECUTED FROM OLD DESIGNS
talent of their architect, Ferdinand Boberg, who
has done and is doing so much for the furtherance
of Swedish architecture and the various arts and
crafts ancillary thereto.
ART SCHOOL NOTES.
ONDON.—At the St. Martin’s Sketch
Club the summer season was wound up
in the customary fashion by an exhibi-
tion, to which each member contributed
a set of works submitted in competition for prizes
awarded by Sir Hubert Herkomer. On the night
of the exhibition there was a large gathering in the
principal studio at St. Martin’s School of Art, in
which the drawings and paintings were arranged.
When Sir Hubert arrived the exhibition room was
temporarily cleared while the judge, accompanied
by the Head Master, Mr. J. E. Allen, and the Club
Secretary, Mr. W. P. Robins, inspected the work.
Sir Hubert’s examination was made in the most
thorough fashion, and he found it difficult in more
than one instance to decide between two compet-
ing sketches—“ judging pictures at the Academy
was nothing to it,” he jocosely remarked. However,
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finally he gave the first prize to Mr. Herbert
W. Wright, the second to Mr. W. P. Robins, the
third to Mr. F. A. Bishop, and the fourth to Mr.
H. C. C. Turner. A special prize for decorative
work he gave to Mr. F. A. Whincap, with honour-
able mentions to Mr. W. R. Reeve and Mr. A. H.
Hookham. The judging finished, the students
begged for a speech, but Sir Hubert unfortunately
had prepared nothing. Still, he would say some-
thing if they liked, and, asking their permission to
be seated, he sat himself down on the arm of a big
chair.
“ Now,” said Sir Hubert, “ ask me something.
What do you want me to tell you ? ” Some of the
students asked for a criticism of the work on the
walls, but Sir Hubert said that he had already
looked at and judged the work, and that there was
not much more to be said about it. A tendency
towards seriousness and breadth seemed to cha-
racterise it generally, and he was glad to see that
it was unaffected by that curse of our times, the
cult of ugliness. “But,” said the famous artist, “in
your work you all appear to have had patterns in
your eye. A good pattern may be all very well,
PEASANT INTERIOR AT THE STOCKHOLM EXHIBITION. FURNITURE & FABRICS NEWLY EXECUTED FROM OLD DESIGNS
talent of their architect, Ferdinand Boberg, who
has done and is doing so much for the furtherance
of Swedish architecture and the various arts and
crafts ancillary thereto.
ART SCHOOL NOTES.
ONDON.—At the St. Martin’s Sketch
Club the summer season was wound up
in the customary fashion by an exhibi-
tion, to which each member contributed
a set of works submitted in competition for prizes
awarded by Sir Hubert Herkomer. On the night
of the exhibition there was a large gathering in the
principal studio at St. Martin’s School of Art, in
which the drawings and paintings were arranged.
When Sir Hubert arrived the exhibition room was
temporarily cleared while the judge, accompanied
by the Head Master, Mr. J. E. Allen, and the Club
Secretary, Mr. W. P. Robins, inspected the work.
Sir Hubert’s examination was made in the most
thorough fashion, and he found it difficult in more
than one instance to decide between two compet-
ing sketches—“ judging pictures at the Academy
was nothing to it,” he jocosely remarked. However,
326
finally he gave the first prize to Mr. Herbert
W. Wright, the second to Mr. W. P. Robins, the
third to Mr. F. A. Bishop, and the fourth to Mr.
H. C. C. Turner. A special prize for decorative
work he gave to Mr. F. A. Whincap, with honour-
able mentions to Mr. W. R. Reeve and Mr. A. H.
Hookham. The judging finished, the students
begged for a speech, but Sir Hubert unfortunately
had prepared nothing. Still, he would say some-
thing if they liked, and, asking their permission to
be seated, he sat himself down on the arm of a big
chair.
“ Now,” said Sir Hubert, “ ask me something.
What do you want me to tell you ? ” Some of the
students asked for a criticism of the work on the
walls, but Sir Hubert said that he had already
looked at and judged the work, and that there was
not much more to be said about it. A tendency
towards seriousness and breadth seemed to cha-
racterise it generally, and he was glad to see that
it was unaffected by that curse of our times, the
cult of ugliness. “But,” said the famous artist, “in
your work you all appear to have had patterns in
your eye. A good pattern may be all very well,