DOI issue:
No. 255 (July 1914)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0158
Studio- Talk
but it is rare indeed that it finds expression side by manuscripts was held recently at Messrs. Sangorski
side with so conscious a concern with pattern as and Sutcliffe's studio in Poland Street. The
Mr. Gregory exhibits. bindings represented the works designed and
- executed by the late Francis Sangorski and George
After being shown in Paris at the exhibition of Sutcliffe, and there were also included a certain
the Societe des Peintres Orientalistes Francais a number of examples carried out, under their
large collection of works by Indian artists of the direction, by apprentices and young journeymen at
New Calcutta School was shown in the Indian the Northampton Institute and the Camberwell
Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum during School of Arts and Crafts. Amongst the exhibits
April and May, and with a further series of works was an illuminated manuscript of some poems by
lent for the occasion by Mr. E. B. Havell and John Keats in an elaborate jewelled binding con-
I)r. A. K. Coomaraswamy afforded, if we an- not taining over one thousand precious stones, and
mistaken, the first opportunity which the London some interesting examples of the cleaning and
public has yet had of making first hand acquaintance restoration of old books and manuscripts,
with the productions of this school, As stated in -
the introduction to the catalogue, the school Among other recent exhibitions Mr. T. L.
"represents the development which has taken place Shoosmith's at the Ryder Gallery should be'noted,
since 1896, when Mr. E. B. Havell reorganised for in Mr. Shoosmith's art there survives a tradition
the instruction given in the Calcutta School of Art of water-colour as it was understood by the contenti-
on Indian lines," but most of our readers are poraries of De Wint.
already familiar with the
work of its chief represen-
tatives from numerous re-
productions which have
appeared in our pages at
various times during the
past dozen years. Mr. A.
N. Tagore, who succeeded
Mr. Havell as principal of
the School of Art in
Calcutta, is the most promi-
nent member of the group
and he was represented in
the exhibition by a series
of sixty works, including
the drawings he made for
an edition of Omar Khay-
yam published by us three
or four years ago. He was
supported by Nanda Lai
Bose, Ishwara Prasad,
Surendra Nath Ganguly,
Satyendra Narayan 1 hitt,
Asit Kumar Haldar, most
if not all of them his
pupils, and the collec-
tion as a whole served
as an effective demonstra-
tion of the pictorial aims
and ideals of the new
School. _
An exhibition of book-
bindings and illuminated "stiu.-life" (New English Art Club) by edward buttar
138
but it is rare indeed that it finds expression side by manuscripts was held recently at Messrs. Sangorski
side with so conscious a concern with pattern as and Sutcliffe's studio in Poland Street. The
Mr. Gregory exhibits. bindings represented the works designed and
- executed by the late Francis Sangorski and George
After being shown in Paris at the exhibition of Sutcliffe, and there were also included a certain
the Societe des Peintres Orientalistes Francais a number of examples carried out, under their
large collection of works by Indian artists of the direction, by apprentices and young journeymen at
New Calcutta School was shown in the Indian the Northampton Institute and the Camberwell
Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum during School of Arts and Crafts. Amongst the exhibits
April and May, and with a further series of works was an illuminated manuscript of some poems by
lent for the occasion by Mr. E. B. Havell and John Keats in an elaborate jewelled binding con-
I)r. A. K. Coomaraswamy afforded, if we an- not taining over one thousand precious stones, and
mistaken, the first opportunity which the London some interesting examples of the cleaning and
public has yet had of making first hand acquaintance restoration of old books and manuscripts,
with the productions of this school, As stated in -
the introduction to the catalogue, the school Among other recent exhibitions Mr. T. L.
"represents the development which has taken place Shoosmith's at the Ryder Gallery should be'noted,
since 1896, when Mr. E. B. Havell reorganised for in Mr. Shoosmith's art there survives a tradition
the instruction given in the Calcutta School of Art of water-colour as it was understood by the contenti-
on Indian lines," but most of our readers are poraries of De Wint.
already familiar with the
work of its chief represen-
tatives from numerous re-
productions which have
appeared in our pages at
various times during the
past dozen years. Mr. A.
N. Tagore, who succeeded
Mr. Havell as principal of
the School of Art in
Calcutta, is the most promi-
nent member of the group
and he was represented in
the exhibition by a series
of sixty works, including
the drawings he made for
an edition of Omar Khay-
yam published by us three
or four years ago. He was
supported by Nanda Lai
Bose, Ishwara Prasad,
Surendra Nath Ganguly,
Satyendra Narayan 1 hitt,
Asit Kumar Haldar, most
if not all of them his
pupils, and the collec-
tion as a whole served
as an effective demonstra-
tion of the pictorial aims
and ideals of the new
School. _
An exhibition of book-
bindings and illuminated "stiu.-life" (New English Art Club) by edward buttar
138