DOI issue:
No. 234 (September 1912)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21157#0341
Studio-Talk
Mackintosh, Mrs. Herbert MacNair—all leaders
in the new movement, each still , actively en-
gaged in it-^surely forfeited claim to being truly
representative. Still, so far as it went it was
certainly interesting, demonstrating as it did that
Scottish art and craft have still the vigour and
versatility of youth. Not only were the principal
educational and other institutions and companies,
such as the Glasgow School of Art, the Edinburgh
College of Art, the Royal Technical College, Glas-
gow, the Scottish Guild of Handicraft, and
McCulloch and Co., effectively represented, but
numerous individual artists of acknowledged talent
contributed work which fully redeemed the display
from any charge of mediocrity. Mrs. Traquair, Mr.
Thomas Hadden, Miss Lewthwaite Dewar, Miss
Marion Wilson, Mr. A. Strachan, Mr. J. C. Watt
were among those who showed metal-work of
various kinds, and enamels ; Miss Ann Macbgth
was prominent in the embroidery section, in which
also some good work was shown by Miss M.
Morgan; and in the design and hand tooling of
book-covers Miss Macbeth was again in evidence,
with Miss Jessie M. King, Mr. John Macbeth, Mr.
George Turnbull, and others. These are but a few
of the artists whose work figured in the exhibition.
Altogether close on nine hundred examples of
art and craft were shown, a striking indication of
the activity of the modern artist and craftsman, and
CHIMNEYPIECE. BY STUDENTS OF THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE, GLASGOW
lecture, and sat with his young student host far
into the night discussing ideals, even he with his
big mind and hopeful temperament must have
failed to grasp the length to which a decade or two
of earnest art teaching and practice would carry
the new movement. Glasgow has been in the van
all the time; she has reared a vigorous band of
individualists, and there is neither likelihood nor
indication that a return will be made to the supine
practices that made a past generation so undis-
tinguished. It is quite true, however, that some
recent exhibitions of Scottish arts
and crafts have given the impres-
sion that progress is not being
maintained. The display of decora-
tive work at the exhibition held
here last year, for instance, dis-
appointed many, but if such was
the case it was due to the non-
representative character of the col-
lection of work gathered together.
A'Scottish exhibition of such work
without examples of the art of Chas.
R- Mackintosh, George Walton,
Oscar Paterson, E. A. Taylor,
Mrs. Newbery, Mrs. Macdonald
WROUGHT-IRON CROSS. BY THOMAS
HADDEN
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Mackintosh, Mrs. Herbert MacNair—all leaders
in the new movement, each still , actively en-
gaged in it-^surely forfeited claim to being truly
representative. Still, so far as it went it was
certainly interesting, demonstrating as it did that
Scottish art and craft have still the vigour and
versatility of youth. Not only were the principal
educational and other institutions and companies,
such as the Glasgow School of Art, the Edinburgh
College of Art, the Royal Technical College, Glas-
gow, the Scottish Guild of Handicraft, and
McCulloch and Co., effectively represented, but
numerous individual artists of acknowledged talent
contributed work which fully redeemed the display
from any charge of mediocrity. Mrs. Traquair, Mr.
Thomas Hadden, Miss Lewthwaite Dewar, Miss
Marion Wilson, Mr. A. Strachan, Mr. J. C. Watt
were among those who showed metal-work of
various kinds, and enamels ; Miss Ann Macbgth
was prominent in the embroidery section, in which
also some good work was shown by Miss M.
Morgan; and in the design and hand tooling of
book-covers Miss Macbeth was again in evidence,
with Miss Jessie M. King, Mr. John Macbeth, Mr.
George Turnbull, and others. These are but a few
of the artists whose work figured in the exhibition.
Altogether close on nine hundred examples of
art and craft were shown, a striking indication of
the activity of the modern artist and craftsman, and
CHIMNEYPIECE. BY STUDENTS OF THE TECHNICAL COLLEGE, GLASGOW
lecture, and sat with his young student host far
into the night discussing ideals, even he with his
big mind and hopeful temperament must have
failed to grasp the length to which a decade or two
of earnest art teaching and practice would carry
the new movement. Glasgow has been in the van
all the time; she has reared a vigorous band of
individualists, and there is neither likelihood nor
indication that a return will be made to the supine
practices that made a past generation so undis-
tinguished. It is quite true, however, that some
recent exhibitions of Scottish arts
and crafts have given the impres-
sion that progress is not being
maintained. The display of decora-
tive work at the exhibition held
here last year, for instance, dis-
appointed many, but if such was
the case it was due to the non-
representative character of the col-
lection of work gathered together.
A'Scottish exhibition of such work
without examples of the art of Chas.
R- Mackintosh, George Walton,
Oscar Paterson, E. A. Taylor,
Mrs. Newbery, Mrs. Macdonald
WROUGHT-IRON CROSS. BY THOMAS
HADDEN
3r9