DOI issue:
No. 223 (October 1911)
DOI article:West, W. K.: Some recent monumental sculpture by Sir George Frampton, R. A.
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0061
Sir George Frampton, R.A.
RECUMBENT EFFIGY OF THE EIGHTH DUKE OF ARGYLL IN IONA CATHEDRAL. BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, R.A.
has remained flexible and spontaneous, and it produce is illustrated very definitely in the ex-
reflects in a very interesting way the response of amples of his more recent accomplishment which
his mind to the stimulus of fresh impressions, have been selected for reproduction here. The
Even in those applications of sculpture which have wall tablets particularly are instructive as instances
necessarily to be formal in character, even in those of the judicious varying of architectural forms and of
cases where he has to make his work accessory decorative ingenuity rightly exercised in the treat-
and complementary to that of the architect, he ment of things in which necessarily certain well-
does not adopt any stereotyped manner; he deals marked limitations have to be respected. He has
with each motive as the occasion seems to demand, not attempted any extravagant departures from
and uses each opportunity in the way that seems the formality which is desirable in this type of
to suit best his personal preferences as an artist. design, he has not substituted eccentricity for
This capacity for adapting himself to the special rational decoration, but while exercising a due
needs of the work which he is called upon to measure of artistic restraint he has missed none of
TABLET AT THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART IN HONOUR OF SIR JAMES FLEMING, CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNORS
BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, R.A.
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RECUMBENT EFFIGY OF THE EIGHTH DUKE OF ARGYLL IN IONA CATHEDRAL. BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, R.A.
has remained flexible and spontaneous, and it produce is illustrated very definitely in the ex-
reflects in a very interesting way the response of amples of his more recent accomplishment which
his mind to the stimulus of fresh impressions, have been selected for reproduction here. The
Even in those applications of sculpture which have wall tablets particularly are instructive as instances
necessarily to be formal in character, even in those of the judicious varying of architectural forms and of
cases where he has to make his work accessory decorative ingenuity rightly exercised in the treat-
and complementary to that of the architect, he ment of things in which necessarily certain well-
does not adopt any stereotyped manner; he deals marked limitations have to be respected. He has
with each motive as the occasion seems to demand, not attempted any extravagant departures from
and uses each opportunity in the way that seems the formality which is desirable in this type of
to suit best his personal preferences as an artist. design, he has not substituted eccentricity for
This capacity for adapting himself to the special rational decoration, but while exercising a due
needs of the work which he is called upon to measure of artistic restraint he has missed none of
TABLET AT THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART IN HONOUR OF SIR JAMES FLEMING, CHAIRMAN OF THE GOVERNORS
BY SIR GEORGE FRAMPTON, R.A.
39