DOI Heft:
No. 235 (October 1912)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: A notable decorative artist: George Sheringham
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0033
George Sheringhcim
“THE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE FAN
PAINTED ON SILK BY GEORGE SHERINGHAM
(In the possession of William Caine, Esq.)
“TIIE KAKEMONO FAN
PAINTED ON SILK BY GEORGE SHERINGHAM
designing and black-and-white work, and he had
two exhibitions of landscape subjects in water-
colours, one at the Brook Street Gallery and the
other at the Ryder Gallery. But finally he aban-
doned realistic painting entirely and decided to
devote himself solely to the decorative work which
by that time he had convinced himself was what
he was by temperament and inclination most fitted
to do.
One of the first fruits of this decision was an
exhibition of fans at the Ryder Gallery, an exhi-
bition which showed in a way that did not admit
of dispute how right he had been in his judgment
ol his own capacities. This exhibition and a
second one held in the same gallery a little later on
revealed him as a designer with something to say
that no one had said before quite in the same way,
and proved him to be an artist whose technical
skill was as exquisite as his fancy was dainty and
graceful in expression. They brought him at once
into prominence, and established him in a position
which has been confirmed and made more secure
by the exhibition of several other fans and decora-
tive paintings, and of the delightful series of wall-
panels painted for Judge Evans. All these have
appeared at the Ryder Gallery, the director of
“THE ITALIAN LANDSCAPE FAN
PAINTED ON SILK BY GEORGE SHERINGHAM
(In the possession of William Caine, Esq.)
“TIIE KAKEMONO FAN
PAINTED ON SILK BY GEORGE SHERINGHAM
designing and black-and-white work, and he had
two exhibitions of landscape subjects in water-
colours, one at the Brook Street Gallery and the
other at the Ryder Gallery. But finally he aban-
doned realistic painting entirely and decided to
devote himself solely to the decorative work which
by that time he had convinced himself was what
he was by temperament and inclination most fitted
to do.
One of the first fruits of this decision was an
exhibition of fans at the Ryder Gallery, an exhi-
bition which showed in a way that did not admit
of dispute how right he had been in his judgment
ol his own capacities. This exhibition and a
second one held in the same gallery a little later on
revealed him as a designer with something to say
that no one had said before quite in the same way,
and proved him to be an artist whose technical
skill was as exquisite as his fancy was dainty and
graceful in expression. They brought him at once
into prominence, and established him in a position
which has been confirmed and made more secure
by the exhibition of several other fans and decora-
tive paintings, and of the delightful series of wall-
panels painted for Judge Evans. All these have
appeared at the Ryder Gallery, the director of