DOI Heft:
No. 225 (December 1911)
DOI Artikel:Art School notes
DOI Artikel:Reviews and notices
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0272
Reviews and Notices
another for a vigorous painting of a child in sunlight.
The examples of applied art included some good
jewellery by Mr. R. O. Pearson and a plaque by
Mr. J. Adams ; and the prizes for etching were taken
by Mr. W. Keesey and Mr. F. C. Richards.
At the exhibition of works by members of the
Camberwell Sketch Club, held at the South London
Art Gallery, Mr. George W. Lambert criticised the
paintings and models and awarded the prizes. Mr.
Lambert, who declared that the exhibition was the
best sketch-club show he had seen, in a brief
address urged the importance of truthful definition
of form, and warned the students that it was not
artistic. to smother drawing or to splash about in
paint or any other medium in the hope that some-
thing might come of it by chance. Prizes were
awarded to E. C. De Celle, A. R. Laird, L. L.
Richards, W. D. Jones, E. H. Whydale, Diana
Tyson, Evelyn Bousfield, and Mary D. Stiles.
A class for instruction in the art of colour-
printing has recently been started by Mr. W. Lee
Hankey and Mr. Nelson Dawson, at 26 St. Peter's
Square, Hammersmith, W., and is probably the
only one of its kind in the country. In this class
the student is given .an opportunity of learning
and practising the art of printing in colour from
engravings on metal. The curriculum includes
designing and preparing suitable drawings, en-
gravings, and getting ready the plates by etching,
aquatint, soft ground, &c, the preparation and
treatment of colours, the paper and other materials
used. The studios are fully equipped for the
purpose of colour-printing; advice will be given as
to any other materials required by the student.
The class is intended solely for artists who are
desirous of practising this art in a purely personal
way, and who, not merely content to design and
engrave subjects upon the plates, also recognise
the necessity for doing the printing themselves.
W. T. W.
DINBURGH.—The Arts and Crafts Club,
from whose triennial exhibition two
pieces of work have been selected for
illustration, is a vigorous and well-directed
organisation intended to foster the artistic activities
of its members in various methods of applied
decorative art. Its membership at present, about
sixty, practically consists of women, and the classes
study enamelling, wood-carving, metal-work and
jewellery, lace-making, embroidery, bookbinding
and design, while classes are formed in some
250
other subjects as the need arises. The lace and
embroidery sections constituted an important part of
the last exhibition. The former included examples
of Maltese, Brussels, Limerick, Carrickmacross,
Bedford, and various point laces, while in the
design section for embroidery a specially attractive
panel worked in a light scheme of colour was the
prize exhibit of Miss Betty MacPherson, Glasgow.
Altogether the exhibition showed that the club is
filling a distinct place in the art education of the
Scottish Metropolis. A. E.
REVIEWS AND NOTICES.
Etchings. By Frederick Wedmore. (London :
Methuen and Co.) 25^. net. — When so able
a critic as Mr. Wedmore writes upon a subject to
which he has for many years given especial attention,
his words are sure to be welcomed by all those to
whom the particular subject may appeal, albeit
that at times they may not entirely agree with his
premises or his conclusions. In the present work his
effort has been directed to the consideration of the
older as well as of living painter-etchers—"not to
exalt the old at the expense of the novel, or the novel
at the expense of the old, or the celebrity at the cost
of the man of genius who has not reached fame."
To this end he gives a running commentary upon
the genius of many artists, from Rembrandt to
Anders Zorn, and in this he displays a keen ob-
servation and a reasonable criticism. That some
names of note and worth should have been omitted
by him is perhaps natural when we consider the
extent of ground he has attempted to cover in a
not over-voluminous text; but we think some space
might still have been accorded more especially to
certain contemporary German etchers of undoubted
originality and ability, such as Unger, Miiller,
and Max Pietschmann—to name but three among
many worthy artists—and also to the younger
American artists, such as D. S. Maclaughlan,
Herman A. Webster, John Marin, and Lester
Hornby. Mr. Wedmore's book is illustrated by
some excellent collotype reproductions from notable
examples.
Illuminated Manuscripts. By T. A. Herbert.
(London: Methuen and Co.) 25j-.net.—Embody-
ing as it does a vast amount of trustworthy in-
formation culled from a great variety of sources
and enriched as it is with more than fifty-five
reproductions of typical MSS. ranging in date
from classic times to the sixteenth century, Mr.
Herbert's new volume is certainly one of the most
fascinating of the series to which it belongs. It
another for a vigorous painting of a child in sunlight.
The examples of applied art included some good
jewellery by Mr. R. O. Pearson and a plaque by
Mr. J. Adams ; and the prizes for etching were taken
by Mr. W. Keesey and Mr. F. C. Richards.
At the exhibition of works by members of the
Camberwell Sketch Club, held at the South London
Art Gallery, Mr. George W. Lambert criticised the
paintings and models and awarded the prizes. Mr.
Lambert, who declared that the exhibition was the
best sketch-club show he had seen, in a brief
address urged the importance of truthful definition
of form, and warned the students that it was not
artistic. to smother drawing or to splash about in
paint or any other medium in the hope that some-
thing might come of it by chance. Prizes were
awarded to E. C. De Celle, A. R. Laird, L. L.
Richards, W. D. Jones, E. H. Whydale, Diana
Tyson, Evelyn Bousfield, and Mary D. Stiles.
A class for instruction in the art of colour-
printing has recently been started by Mr. W. Lee
Hankey and Mr. Nelson Dawson, at 26 St. Peter's
Square, Hammersmith, W., and is probably the
only one of its kind in the country. In this class
the student is given .an opportunity of learning
and practising the art of printing in colour from
engravings on metal. The curriculum includes
designing and preparing suitable drawings, en-
gravings, and getting ready the plates by etching,
aquatint, soft ground, &c, the preparation and
treatment of colours, the paper and other materials
used. The studios are fully equipped for the
purpose of colour-printing; advice will be given as
to any other materials required by the student.
The class is intended solely for artists who are
desirous of practising this art in a purely personal
way, and who, not merely content to design and
engrave subjects upon the plates, also recognise
the necessity for doing the printing themselves.
W. T. W.
DINBURGH.—The Arts and Crafts Club,
from whose triennial exhibition two
pieces of work have been selected for
illustration, is a vigorous and well-directed
organisation intended to foster the artistic activities
of its members in various methods of applied
decorative art. Its membership at present, about
sixty, practically consists of women, and the classes
study enamelling, wood-carving, metal-work and
jewellery, lace-making, embroidery, bookbinding
and design, while classes are formed in some
250
other subjects as the need arises. The lace and
embroidery sections constituted an important part of
the last exhibition. The former included examples
of Maltese, Brussels, Limerick, Carrickmacross,
Bedford, and various point laces, while in the
design section for embroidery a specially attractive
panel worked in a light scheme of colour was the
prize exhibit of Miss Betty MacPherson, Glasgow.
Altogether the exhibition showed that the club is
filling a distinct place in the art education of the
Scottish Metropolis. A. E.
REVIEWS AND NOTICES.
Etchings. By Frederick Wedmore. (London :
Methuen and Co.) 25^. net. — When so able
a critic as Mr. Wedmore writes upon a subject to
which he has for many years given especial attention,
his words are sure to be welcomed by all those to
whom the particular subject may appeal, albeit
that at times they may not entirely agree with his
premises or his conclusions. In the present work his
effort has been directed to the consideration of the
older as well as of living painter-etchers—"not to
exalt the old at the expense of the novel, or the novel
at the expense of the old, or the celebrity at the cost
of the man of genius who has not reached fame."
To this end he gives a running commentary upon
the genius of many artists, from Rembrandt to
Anders Zorn, and in this he displays a keen ob-
servation and a reasonable criticism. That some
names of note and worth should have been omitted
by him is perhaps natural when we consider the
extent of ground he has attempted to cover in a
not over-voluminous text; but we think some space
might still have been accorded more especially to
certain contemporary German etchers of undoubted
originality and ability, such as Unger, Miiller,
and Max Pietschmann—to name but three among
many worthy artists—and also to the younger
American artists, such as D. S. Maclaughlan,
Herman A. Webster, John Marin, and Lester
Hornby. Mr. Wedmore's book is illustrated by
some excellent collotype reproductions from notable
examples.
Illuminated Manuscripts. By T. A. Herbert.
(London: Methuen and Co.) 25j-.net.—Embody-
ing as it does a vast amount of trustworthy in-
formation culled from a great variety of sources
and enriched as it is with more than fifty-five
reproductions of typical MSS. ranging in date
from classic times to the sixteenth century, Mr.
Herbert's new volume is certainly one of the most
fascinating of the series to which it belongs. It