DOI issue:
No. 256 (August 1914)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0262
Studio-Talk
the exhibition and to call much of it the Arts and to me to have been wasted on ungainly shapes
Crafts of Great Britain is erroneous. If there is an and senseless ornamentation. Amongst the most
effect there must have been a cause, and I have no unique examples of research and attainment
doubt that the system of granting bursaries to the exhibits of Messrs. Pilkington are unrivalled,
School of Art students so that they can tour and there are also some particularly interesting
Europe and send back monthly instalments of their examples by William de Morgan and W. Howson
cribbings to qualify for their monthly allowance has Taylor, while in table glass there is nothing to quite
much to do with the ultimate harvest England reaps, compare with that shown by James Powell and Sons.
- But if one were to predict any decided influence
Technically there is little in the exhibition that thai may be the outcome of the exhibition in France
one can find fault with; the craftsmanship is it would be from the section devoted to printing. In
delightfully perfect and in the smaller work, such it are shown many exhibits of uncommon interest,
as the jewellery and enamels, most admirable, though one feels that in the illuminated pages and
especially attractive being some necklaces and decorations mediaeval influence is too pronounced,
enamel triptychs by Mrs. Traquair, the remarkably If French design does dip largely into the past
fine cloisonne enamels of Harold Stabler, various it has a certain independent character of its own,
examples of jewellery by Henry Wilson and and it is the independence of Britain's designers
fascinating silver work by J. Paul Cooper, and one would have liked to see more of in the
those interested in needlework and embroidery will exhibition. E. A. T.
find much to attract them in the knowledge
displayed in the unfinished panel Orphte by Miss J "V ERLIN.—The Schulte Salon has been
Moxton and the panel entitled Gloria by Miss Ann I J showing the work of the Munich painter
Macbeth. Then there is a little room one must | Edmund Steppes. An inborn How of
not forget which contains some delicately decorative * J feeling tinged with a shade of melancholy
water-colourdrawings on vellum by Mrs. Mackintosh: pervades this work, whether the human figure or
and in this room, too, the
work of Jessie M. King
could not be shown to
better advantage for light
and arrangement. Here
also is an excellent display
of fans and decorative
paintings on silk by George
Sheringham, pen and ink
drawings by Miss Annie
French and some remark-
ably good loan examples
of the work of Charles
Conder, while in the ad-
joining rooms one can fully
satisfy one's early delight
in the work of Walter
Crane. Amongst the more
recent work shown I was
especially attracted by four
little simple coloured wood
engravings by Maxwell Arm-
field, the prints of Allen W.
Sc. i by and F. Morley Flet-
cher, and the lithographs
of G. Spencer Pryse.
In pottery a good deal
, "MOUNTAIN STREAM BY ED
of energy and colour appear (SekulU Salon, Berlin ; Photo F. Hocfle, Augsburg)
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the exhibition and to call much of it the Arts and to me to have been wasted on ungainly shapes
Crafts of Great Britain is erroneous. If there is an and senseless ornamentation. Amongst the most
effect there must have been a cause, and I have no unique examples of research and attainment
doubt that the system of granting bursaries to the exhibits of Messrs. Pilkington are unrivalled,
School of Art students so that they can tour and there are also some particularly interesting
Europe and send back monthly instalments of their examples by William de Morgan and W. Howson
cribbings to qualify for their monthly allowance has Taylor, while in table glass there is nothing to quite
much to do with the ultimate harvest England reaps, compare with that shown by James Powell and Sons.
- But if one were to predict any decided influence
Technically there is little in the exhibition that thai may be the outcome of the exhibition in France
one can find fault with; the craftsmanship is it would be from the section devoted to printing. In
delightfully perfect and in the smaller work, such it are shown many exhibits of uncommon interest,
as the jewellery and enamels, most admirable, though one feels that in the illuminated pages and
especially attractive being some necklaces and decorations mediaeval influence is too pronounced,
enamel triptychs by Mrs. Traquair, the remarkably If French design does dip largely into the past
fine cloisonne enamels of Harold Stabler, various it has a certain independent character of its own,
examples of jewellery by Henry Wilson and and it is the independence of Britain's designers
fascinating silver work by J. Paul Cooper, and one would have liked to see more of in the
those interested in needlework and embroidery will exhibition. E. A. T.
find much to attract them in the knowledge
displayed in the unfinished panel Orphte by Miss J "V ERLIN.—The Schulte Salon has been
Moxton and the panel entitled Gloria by Miss Ann I J showing the work of the Munich painter
Macbeth. Then there is a little room one must | Edmund Steppes. An inborn How of
not forget which contains some delicately decorative * J feeling tinged with a shade of melancholy
water-colourdrawings on vellum by Mrs. Mackintosh: pervades this work, whether the human figure or
and in this room, too, the
work of Jessie M. King
could not be shown to
better advantage for light
and arrangement. Here
also is an excellent display
of fans and decorative
paintings on silk by George
Sheringham, pen and ink
drawings by Miss Annie
French and some remark-
ably good loan examples
of the work of Charles
Conder, while in the ad-
joining rooms one can fully
satisfy one's early delight
in the work of Walter
Crane. Amongst the more
recent work shown I was
especially attracted by four
little simple coloured wood
engravings by Maxwell Arm-
field, the prints of Allen W.
Sc. i by and F. Morley Flet-
cher, and the lithographs
of G. Spencer Pryse.
In pottery a good deal
, "MOUNTAIN STREAM BY ED
of energy and colour appear (SekulU Salon, Berlin ; Photo F. Hocfle, Augsburg)
242