DOI issue:
Nr. 246 (September 1913)
DOI article:Whitley, William Thomas: The National Competition of Schools of Art, 1913
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21159#0316
The National Competition of Schools of Art, igij
STAINED WOOD JEWEL-BOX
Grace M. Roberts of Leeds (Vernon Street) School
of Art, were among the many things worthy of
mention in the department of illustration.
A charming idea, not unsuccessfully carried out,
was the design for a painted panel by Miss Ada C.
Sargent of Ipswich which illustrated “ the kingdom
so close to our workaday world where children
dwell.” In Miss Sargent’s
painting the children were
shown in their kingdom
of fairyland, joyful in the
actual society of Dick
Whittington, the Sleeping
Beauty, Cinderella, and the
rest. The everyday world
of labour, which has its
own poetry and romance,
was depicted in some
capital designs for another
piece of decoration, a
painted frieze by Mr.
George Noble of Leicester.
From Camberwell came
several large square panels
in colour by different
hands, illustrating various
historical subjects; excel-
lent work for students to
attempt, even if their
present powers do not
permit them to carry it to
a successful conclusion.
296
The Polytechnic (Mary-
lebone) School of Art
showed several good ex-
amples of the work in
stained wood that has been
a feature of several recent
competitions, and gold
medals were given to Miss
Hester M. Wagstaff for a
card-table top, and to Miss
Gwen White for a panel for
the decoration of a book-
case. Miss Wagstaff’s de-
sign, which was carried out
in rich warm tones, was
based on the playing-card,
with the kings and queens
and knaves disposed
against a landscape back-
ground. Miss Gwen
White’s panel, attractive in
colour, was a fanciful
arrangement of seventeenth-century figures grouped
in a garden. It was excellent as a picture but
hardly fit for the special decorative purpose for
which it was designed. These two examples of
stained wood were submitted some time ago to the
Queen and have since been accepted by Her
Majesty as a gift from the Polytechnic School.
BY MABEL BRIGGS (LEEDS, VERNON STREET)
DESIGN FOR WOVEN TAPESTRY HANGING. BY ELDRED WARD1.E MACCLESFIELD)
STAINED WOOD JEWEL-BOX
Grace M. Roberts of Leeds (Vernon Street) School
of Art, were among the many things worthy of
mention in the department of illustration.
A charming idea, not unsuccessfully carried out,
was the design for a painted panel by Miss Ada C.
Sargent of Ipswich which illustrated “ the kingdom
so close to our workaday world where children
dwell.” In Miss Sargent’s
painting the children were
shown in their kingdom
of fairyland, joyful in the
actual society of Dick
Whittington, the Sleeping
Beauty, Cinderella, and the
rest. The everyday world
of labour, which has its
own poetry and romance,
was depicted in some
capital designs for another
piece of decoration, a
painted frieze by Mr.
George Noble of Leicester.
From Camberwell came
several large square panels
in colour by different
hands, illustrating various
historical subjects; excel-
lent work for students to
attempt, even if their
present powers do not
permit them to carry it to
a successful conclusion.
296
The Polytechnic (Mary-
lebone) School of Art
showed several good ex-
amples of the work in
stained wood that has been
a feature of several recent
competitions, and gold
medals were given to Miss
Hester M. Wagstaff for a
card-table top, and to Miss
Gwen White for a panel for
the decoration of a book-
case. Miss Wagstaff’s de-
sign, which was carried out
in rich warm tones, was
based on the playing-card,
with the kings and queens
and knaves disposed
against a landscape back-
ground. Miss Gwen
White’s panel, attractive in
colour, was a fanciful
arrangement of seventeenth-century figures grouped
in a garden. It was excellent as a picture but
hardly fit for the special decorative purpose for
which it was designed. These two examples of
stained wood were submitted some time ago to the
Queen and have since been accepted by Her
Majesty as a gift from the Polytechnic School.
BY MABEL BRIGGS (LEEDS, VERNON STREET)
DESIGN FOR WOVEN TAPESTRY HANGING. BY ELDRED WARD1.E MACCLESFIELD)