Studio: international art (57.1913)

The Arts and Crafts Society's Exhibition








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CUPBOARD IN VERNIE I’OLIE (SHOWN OPEN AND CLOSED)

(Lent by Miss Gundrea Trotter)

BY MRS. ALYS TROTTER

contributed work in metal and wood on the last
occasion, sends nothing this time.

The large gallery at the Arts and Crafts Exhibi-
tion suffers from a superfluity of designs for stained
glass. Some of these, however, are very good, and
among the best are the cartoons for a window in
Abbotsbury Church designed by Mr. Robert
Anning Bell.

There is only one contribution from the firm
founded by William Morris but it ranks with the
finest things in the exhibition. It is a large panel
of Arras tapestry designed by Mrs. Adrian Stokes
and executed by Mr. B. J. Martin. Some good
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tapestry of a more modest kind is shown by Mr.
Edmund Hunter. Mrs. M. Dibdin Spooner’s
unfinished panels for the altar-piece of St.
Christopher’s Church, Haslemere, are notable for
the individuality of the heads in the designs.
They look like portraits and are in any case a
welcome departure from the conventionality of the
heads in the ordinary church picture.

In the next article reference will be made to the
other classes of work on view at the Arts and
Crafts Exhibition, such as pottery, glass, metal-
work, &c., and a further series of illustrations will
be given. \v. T. Whitley.