DOI Heft:
No. 238 (January 1913)
DOI Artikel:The Arts and Crafts Society's exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery, [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0322
The Arts and Crafts Society s Exhibition
POT-POURRI BOWL-STAND AND COVER (WOOD),
CARVED, PAINTED, AND GILDED BY JOSEPH
ARMITAGE
in carved and gilded frame and a potpourri bowl
and cover of original and attractive design.
Mr. J. E. Southall’s mirror frame, The Schooner,
is delightful in shape, and the little picture of the
harbour with its white-sailed ship relieves the plain
gold surface in a happy fashion. An excellent
piece of work of its kind is an engraved and
painted screen panel of cedar-wood contributed
by Mr. Allan F. Vigers. The panel is de-
corated with an intricate incised and coloured
design showing in the lower portion an arcade
with quaint figures of heraldic animals. It
is, however, in the frieze above the arcade
that the best work of Mr. Vigers is to be
found in the shape of a procession of fifteenth-
century ladies and their attendants in robes and
trains of gold and vermilion. Miss de la Mare’s
panel for an overmantel illustrating The Marriage
of Griselda is gay and bright in colour but seems
too important as a decoration for the humble fire-
place of red brick it is intended to surmount. Mr.
Heywood Sumner’s water-colour Thickets—Bury
is a landscape treated decoratively but with a
sufficient measure of realism to make it attractive
as a picture. The subdued colour of the copses
and water-meadows is at once pleasant and
harmonious.
A notable abstention from the furniture section
of the present exhibition is Mr. Ernest W. Gimson,
whose sole exhibit is a competitive design for the
Federal Capital of Australia, whereas on the last
occasion he was represented by more than a score
of items. Mr. Gimson stands in the very front
rank of our workers in wood, and the absence of
any examples of his mature and agreeable crafts-
manship detracts from the interest of this section
at the Grosvenor Gallery. Mr. C. F. Voysey, who
PANEL FOR OVERMANTEL: “THE MARRIAGE OK GRISELDA
3°°
BY MISS G. A. DE LA MARE
POT-POURRI BOWL-STAND AND COVER (WOOD),
CARVED, PAINTED, AND GILDED BY JOSEPH
ARMITAGE
in carved and gilded frame and a potpourri bowl
and cover of original and attractive design.
Mr. J. E. Southall’s mirror frame, The Schooner,
is delightful in shape, and the little picture of the
harbour with its white-sailed ship relieves the plain
gold surface in a happy fashion. An excellent
piece of work of its kind is an engraved and
painted screen panel of cedar-wood contributed
by Mr. Allan F. Vigers. The panel is de-
corated with an intricate incised and coloured
design showing in the lower portion an arcade
with quaint figures of heraldic animals. It
is, however, in the frieze above the arcade
that the best work of Mr. Vigers is to be
found in the shape of a procession of fifteenth-
century ladies and their attendants in robes and
trains of gold and vermilion. Miss de la Mare’s
panel for an overmantel illustrating The Marriage
of Griselda is gay and bright in colour but seems
too important as a decoration for the humble fire-
place of red brick it is intended to surmount. Mr.
Heywood Sumner’s water-colour Thickets—Bury
is a landscape treated decoratively but with a
sufficient measure of realism to make it attractive
as a picture. The subdued colour of the copses
and water-meadows is at once pleasant and
harmonious.
A notable abstention from the furniture section
of the present exhibition is Mr. Ernest W. Gimson,
whose sole exhibit is a competitive design for the
Federal Capital of Australia, whereas on the last
occasion he was represented by more than a score
of items. Mr. Gimson stands in the very front
rank of our workers in wood, and the absence of
any examples of his mature and agreeable crafts-
manship detracts from the interest of this section
at the Grosvenor Gallery. Mr. C. F. Voysey, who
PANEL FOR OVERMANTEL: “THE MARRIAGE OK GRISELDA
3°°
BY MISS G. A. DE LA MARE