DOI Heft:
No. 261 (December 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0218
Studio- Talk
"PAINTING" AND " CRAFTSMANSHIP " : LUNETTES FOR DECORATING THE DOME OF THE NEW CENTRAL HALL
OF 'DUE ROYAL WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY. BY WALTER CRANE, R.W.S.
Mr. Peppercorn, and Mr. Anning Bell's Offering to there were some exquisite decorative paintings by
Ceres, must be recorded. Mr. George Sheringham, water-colours of much
- excellence by Mr. P. W. Steer, Mr. A. W. Rich,
The Autumn Exhibition which was opened at Mr. A. Ludovici, Mr. W. B. E. Ranken, and Mr.
the Goupil Gallery at the beginning of November F. E. James, and sound drawings by Mr. M. D.
took the place oi the annual Goupil Gallery Salon. Burns and Mr. W. Shackleton.
It was arranged, as the preface to the catalogue -
explained, " in order to offer to those artists who Recently in the large studio of Leighton House
have loyally supported us in the past an oppor- were exhibited two lunettes by Mr. Walter Crane
tunity to exhibit and especially to test the possi- illustrating Sculpture and Architecture, destined for
bility of still realising their works" at a time when the decoration of the dome in the central hall of
necessarily the art market has become disorganised. the Royal West of England Academy at Bristol,
The show was on a smaller scale than the Salon and with them were shown two small sketches of
exhibitions, but in its general character it bore another pair, previously executed and placed in
much resemblance to them. A great deal of able position. Mr. Crane's designs were selected in an
and interesting work was included in it, most of the open competition in which Professors Lethaby,
artists who usually exhibit at the gallery being Moira, and Beresford Pite acted as assessors. The
adequately represented, and the impression made paintings, which are each 24 feet long and 7 feet
by the collection as a whole was distinctly agree- high, have been executed in matt oil-colour, a
able. Among the more important canvases shown purified petrol spirit being used as a medium, and
were a delightful landscape, High Barn, and an the original studies have been much improved
admirable still-life group, The Lustre Vase, by Mr. upon in the finished paintings. A brief reference
W. Nicholson, Versailles Garden, a very clever to the symbolism of these lunettes may not be out
technical exercise by Mr. A. Jamieson, The Elm of place. In Sculpture the figures of Grief and
on the Hill by Mr. W. Graham Robertson, and Fame and Love are given prominent positions to
Reading Aloud on the Moors, the best of a group of the right and left of the central figure of the
small pictures, by Mr. A. E. John. In the section Genius of Sculpture, who holds in her hand a small
devoted to water-colours, pastels, drawings, &c, golden statuette of Victory, as being the principal
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"PAINTING" AND " CRAFTSMANSHIP " : LUNETTES FOR DECORATING THE DOME OF THE NEW CENTRAL HALL
OF 'DUE ROYAL WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY. BY WALTER CRANE, R.W.S.
Mr. Peppercorn, and Mr. Anning Bell's Offering to there were some exquisite decorative paintings by
Ceres, must be recorded. Mr. George Sheringham, water-colours of much
- excellence by Mr. P. W. Steer, Mr. A. W. Rich,
The Autumn Exhibition which was opened at Mr. A. Ludovici, Mr. W. B. E. Ranken, and Mr.
the Goupil Gallery at the beginning of November F. E. James, and sound drawings by Mr. M. D.
took the place oi the annual Goupil Gallery Salon. Burns and Mr. W. Shackleton.
It was arranged, as the preface to the catalogue -
explained, " in order to offer to those artists who Recently in the large studio of Leighton House
have loyally supported us in the past an oppor- were exhibited two lunettes by Mr. Walter Crane
tunity to exhibit and especially to test the possi- illustrating Sculpture and Architecture, destined for
bility of still realising their works" at a time when the decoration of the dome in the central hall of
necessarily the art market has become disorganised. the Royal West of England Academy at Bristol,
The show was on a smaller scale than the Salon and with them were shown two small sketches of
exhibitions, but in its general character it bore another pair, previously executed and placed in
much resemblance to them. A great deal of able position. Mr. Crane's designs were selected in an
and interesting work was included in it, most of the open competition in which Professors Lethaby,
artists who usually exhibit at the gallery being Moira, and Beresford Pite acted as assessors. The
adequately represented, and the impression made paintings, which are each 24 feet long and 7 feet
by the collection as a whole was distinctly agree- high, have been executed in matt oil-colour, a
able. Among the more important canvases shown purified petrol spirit being used as a medium, and
were a delightful landscape, High Barn, and an the original studies have been much improved
admirable still-life group, The Lustre Vase, by Mr. upon in the finished paintings. A brief reference
W. Nicholson, Versailles Garden, a very clever to the symbolism of these lunettes may not be out
technical exercise by Mr. A. Jamieson, The Elm of place. In Sculpture the figures of Grief and
on the Hill by Mr. W. Graham Robertson, and Fame and Love are given prominent positions to
Reading Aloud on the Moors, the best of a group of the right and left of the central figure of the
small pictures, by Mr. A. E. John. In the section Genius of Sculpture, who holds in her hand a small
devoted to water-colours, pastels, drawings, &c, golden statuette of Victory, as being the principal
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