DOI issue:
No. 200 (November, 200)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0169
Studio-Talk
kind has not afforded him the happiest opportunity illuminated page by Mr. Fred Vigers, embracing
for his lively and resourceful art. many difficulties of design and achieving a very
- interesting result.
The Stock Exchange Art Society's recent
Exhibition at the Drapers' Hall should remove Two small exhibitions of last month worthy of
anybody's impression that the Stock Exchange is recording were Mr. A. Fuller Maitland's Landscape
a centre of Philistia. It is true the artist brokers and Sea- Paintings at the Ryder Gallery and Mr.
wisely choose easy conventions and take no daring F. D. How's Cotswold drawings at the Baillie
or hazardous flights into the mazes of impressionism Gallery. _
and the problems which overthrow the gladiators
of our great exhibitions. Sticking, then, to veins Mr. Pennell, whose " oeuvre" by this time
which it is the fashion to think exhausted, they amounts to the respectable number of some three
produced some admirable results. Perhaps Mr. hundred and odd plates, has recently turned his
Mostyn Pritchard's pencil drawings of architecture attention to mezzotint. Few modern etchers are
were the most highly successful things in the practising the process—always excepting the "re-
exhibition, and Mr. W. Newell's sculpture was of productive" men, who vie more or less success-
great merit. There were, however, many exhibits fully with their famous eighteenth century ancestors
displaying an educated artistic vision, and the in translating popular paintings in black-and-white,
atmosphere of the exhibition and the standard of Mr. Pennell's work is, of course, distinct from
work were thoroughly professional
throughout. _
At the Fine Art Society there
was held last month an exhibition
of some brilliantly effective water
colours by Yoshio Markino, and
drawings for Kings ley's North
Devon and Water Babies, by
Warwick Goble. Mr. Warwick
Goble has a gift of some charm in
water colours, though where for the
purposes of illustration he has had
, .. . laf.MMMwWBmi^F^WPvw .o'er the cartk .\nd »ca,
recourse to line, he exhibits charac- HKvftvHv WBP5C»fel'uxt"l,"vcal'c*t kou.-ofHe.wen
, • i , nj- ; (ItxKMti ^SroSsw^^SS^ilK^i' worthiest thai
tenstics ol style invented by Mr. Ifflfflg .MaTBBSlh^* Wth. hour!..
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liveliness and skilfulness as a de-
signer of fanciful figures. In this ' fBSHTg^Wn <T T4fs ^'"Z1fejtcft .
0 o : 1 • v.Jf /IkB >*Sgri m ^■ndnotAbrcAthcrcpt thre*uoiitlierosy,ttr,|
connection, for a similar kind of iBsiB^ / /C' ^*, -W«itkcft>rc>tt«vessccm'ci3tirr;clr
....', . mf? lltWfjCW ■ <S»®Xfe««hprayers \
illustration -though running more W"Uj/^flK mimm Utftwofpr^'^S
in a humorous vein—we might 3C«M VMW A«MAri»rti»thchiur<f low! ^fij^
. 0 \m!*Mrmmr™0Bfi AverUrul may our spirits cUre.-Z^^sx^
here mention Mr. W. H. Walker's Sd^SmPK Look up to tkinc .-ma to thy Soil's above 1
.exhibition at the Walker gallery. J«Bfi ^t^^t^Sl^^^
The artist had struck a note of (f)^^J^^^^M^M^-^^.^^dx^c--i
v (ilkai though 'tis but .1 pictured inur>e strike!
fantasy similar to that which Mr. Ch*t pointing u no wW;u» too Uke.<j
Rackham brought into fashion long
before that artist's work was so
well known; for that note of
fantasy, though he has not Mr.
Rackham's power and skill as a
designer, his work made a pleasant
•exhibition. _
„ , . , illumination designed and executed by frederick vigers
On this page we reproduce an black letters by m. c. oliver
147.
kind has not afforded him the happiest opportunity illuminated page by Mr. Fred Vigers, embracing
for his lively and resourceful art. many difficulties of design and achieving a very
- interesting result.
The Stock Exchange Art Society's recent
Exhibition at the Drapers' Hall should remove Two small exhibitions of last month worthy of
anybody's impression that the Stock Exchange is recording were Mr. A. Fuller Maitland's Landscape
a centre of Philistia. It is true the artist brokers and Sea- Paintings at the Ryder Gallery and Mr.
wisely choose easy conventions and take no daring F. D. How's Cotswold drawings at the Baillie
or hazardous flights into the mazes of impressionism Gallery. _
and the problems which overthrow the gladiators
of our great exhibitions. Sticking, then, to veins Mr. Pennell, whose " oeuvre" by this time
which it is the fashion to think exhausted, they amounts to the respectable number of some three
produced some admirable results. Perhaps Mr. hundred and odd plates, has recently turned his
Mostyn Pritchard's pencil drawings of architecture attention to mezzotint. Few modern etchers are
were the most highly successful things in the practising the process—always excepting the "re-
exhibition, and Mr. W. Newell's sculpture was of productive" men, who vie more or less success-
great merit. There were, however, many exhibits fully with their famous eighteenth century ancestors
displaying an educated artistic vision, and the in translating popular paintings in black-and-white,
atmosphere of the exhibition and the standard of Mr. Pennell's work is, of course, distinct from
work were thoroughly professional
throughout. _
At the Fine Art Society there
was held last month an exhibition
of some brilliantly effective water
colours by Yoshio Markino, and
drawings for Kings ley's North
Devon and Water Babies, by
Warwick Goble. Mr. Warwick
Goble has a gift of some charm in
water colours, though where for the
purposes of illustration he has had
, .. . laf.MMMwWBmi^F^WPvw .o'er the cartk .\nd »ca,
recourse to line, he exhibits charac- HKvftvHv WBP5C»fel'uxt"l,"vcal'c*t kou.-ofHe.wen
, • i , nj- ; (ItxKMti ^SroSsw^^SS^ilK^i' worthiest thai
tenstics ol style invented by Mr. Ifflfflg .MaTBBSlh^* Wth. hour!..
Rackham. If not, then, quite • MSSmMBI^^ th.clim«,tk<»pot.wh««UiifSt*
^ ll^RSi'i. ' ' ' *l H»v fett thAt meoKirt in its fullest (www-
Original always in method, he has tSm^v K«^3r* Sinko*«-tkcearth«• beautifulxndtoft.
.. . . lALlMMErf .V»il lUkiU »WIU«* the tlMp Wll iR Hw elUtutf
i towC l>
liveliness and skilfulness as a de-
signer of fanciful figures. In this ' fBSHTg^Wn <T T4fs ^'"Z1fejtcft .
0 o : 1 • v.Jf /IkB >*Sgri m ^■ndnotAbrcAthcrcpt thre*uoiitlierosy,ttr,|
connection, for a similar kind of iBsiB^ / /C' ^*, -W«itkcft>rc>tt«vessccm'ci3tirr;clr
....', . mf? lltWfjCW ■ <S»®Xfe««hprayers \
illustration -though running more W"Uj/^flK mimm Utftwofpr^'^S
in a humorous vein—we might 3C«M VMW A«MAri»rti»thchiur<f low! ^fij^
. 0 \m!*Mrmmr™0Bfi AverUrul may our spirits cUre.-Z^^sx^
here mention Mr. W. H. Walker's Sd^SmPK Look up to tkinc .-ma to thy Soil's above 1
.exhibition at the Walker gallery. J«Bfi ^t^^t^Sl^^^
The artist had struck a note of (f)^^J^^^^M^M^-^^.^^dx^c--i
v (ilkai though 'tis but .1 pictured inur>e strike!
fantasy similar to that which Mr. Ch*t pointing u no wW;u» too Uke.<j
Rackham brought into fashion long
before that artist's work was so
well known; for that note of
fantasy, though he has not Mr.
Rackham's power and skill as a
designer, his work made a pleasant
•exhibition. _
„ , . , illumination designed and executed by frederick vigers
On this page we reproduce an black letters by m. c. oliver
147.