Studio: international art (53.1911)

Decorative Panels by George Sheringham

SOME DECORATIVE PANELS BY sense is guided by the soundest taste, and he has
GEORGE SHERINGHAM. already, young as he is, acquired a wonderfully

sure command over refinements of technical prac-
The series of wall panels executed by Mr. tice. Hitherto, he has chiefly confined himself to
George Sheringham, for a room in the country things on a comparatively small scale, to fans and
house of His Honour Judge Evans, deserves to be small fanciful compositions which have offered him
noted as an unusually attractive example of well- scope for the display of his power as a colourist and
considered decorative work. During the past two as a sensitive and graceful draughtsman; and in
or three years Mr. Sheringham has made for his management of work of this character—which
himself a very definite place among the younger demands the greatest possible daintiness of inven-
artists who have the inclination and the capacity tion and delicacy of handling—he has proved
to deal with problems of decoration ; and by the himself to be quite exceptionally accomplished,
admirable quality of his achievement he has These panels, however, were scarcely capable 01
gained the sincere approval of those art lovers who the same kind of treatment that could appropriately
can appreciate the value of a personal outlook be applied to his smaller paintings; they are fairly
and manner of expression in art practice. He has, large and they have called for greater breadth of
indeed, a very real talent as a designer; his execution as well as a bigger view of decorative
originality is unquestionable and his decorative responsibilities. But he has been quite equal to

the occasion; he has
'i"iCW 4 ••'2)*tff' realised fully how to ex-

pfiv , " pand his methods so as

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f^L^s. . i lation between the scale

| ^JjiL^' M M~\3L of his handling and the

/% <£K . . ' :'V -^M^ space he had to fill, and

.,w he has avoided with ex-

'W; 1 Jk cellent judgment any

§ /--sh tendency towards small-

'- | |:,;> m f'$4js ness °^manner or trivi-

P ffV ality of detail. The way

j Ml' in which the panels are

1 ' HE • r *'Mm ■■' ~K imagined, their quaint-

{ i » ' ness of design and their

t \i tw*-^^it subtlety of colour, and

nl particularly their mas-

K * 'ft JJ:' culine simplicity, can be

* '= | ' - - sincerely commended;

f6^ ; -v to the manner in

^r*' ' y which they have been

| \ '*jim '. 0 §■„_..r thought out they owe

"SI much of their fascina-

if, • * */ - ' ~"\ 1 tion.

"'• ' v | , '. . , But as technical ex-

i "j/":-' ' "■• - ?*, amples, also, they are

: J** Vi of very real interest.

I ^fV^.^........';. 'S^^. | They are painted on

. ...r^*-W>£.- , ! * i -• — r *W, j silk in water-colour, and

' ^ - P™.1 j Mr. Sheringham has

| "V: - -r -— ~?Jgr-if* I '-. overcome with note-

'jjX? I ' worthy skill the diffi-

} ; j culties which are

- . ' • -— -"'•sg. inevitable in the ap-

plication of the water-

DECORATIVE PANELS TAINTED IN WATER-COLOUR ON SILK BY GEORGE SHERINGHAM r

( The Property of His Honour Judge Evans) coloui medium on

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