DOI issue:
No. 262 (January 1915)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0301
Studio- Talk
Burlington House has been organised in aid of the
funds of the Red Cross Society and the Artists'
General Benevolent Institution, both of which
have many calls on their resources at the present
moment. Each member of the various " Royal"
academies and societies, the International Society,
the National Portrait Society, the New English
Art Club, the Chelsea Arts Club, and the Senefelder
Club, was invited to offer one work, to be exhibited
and sold at a price fixed by him, the chief part, or
if he so desires the whole, of the proceeds to be
divided equally between the two institutions named.
There is also on view a collection of works by
Belgian artists to be sold in aid of the funds for
the relief of the artists of that country who are now
in straitened circumstances.
We reproduce a tapestry which was exhibited at
the Autumn exhibition of the International Society
at the Grosvenor Gallery, from the design of that
inventive and subtle illustrator, Mr. Edmund Dulac.
The piece was woven by Leo Belmonte, who
possesses a reputation for his restoration work and
care of tapestries in the museums of Europe. The
panel Circe is an exceptional specimen of design
accommodated to the method to be employed.
This is notable in the simplification of foliage and
the expressively outlined animals.
Charming things like fans, with a history and
secrets of their own, their glamour increased by
designs by some great artist—these things, whisper-
ing of idleness and of unthreatened times of peace,
now find themselves, with everything else, used
as advocates for a war fund. With admirable
generosity Mrs. Frank Gibson has recently placed
her collection of eighteenth-century fans in an
exhibition at Messrs. Colnaghi and Obach's held
in aid of the Australian Section of The Queen's
"Work for Women" Fund. The exhibition also
contained, through the generosity of Mr. Edmund
Davis, Mr. Arnold Bennett, and other owners, a
remarkable collection of fans and drawings on silk
by Conder, whose memory has not always been so
well served by those who rush to exhibit fragments
in his name. Some charming fans by Mary Davis,
two exquisite water-colours by Whistler, completed
the first part of Messrs. Colnaghi's exhibition.
But in their main gallery was shown a great work
by Rembrandt, apparently untampered by the
hand of the restorer, vital as in the moment in
which it was executed, from a collection where it
Burlington House has been organised in aid of the
funds of the Red Cross Society and the Artists'
General Benevolent Institution, both of which
have many calls on their resources at the present
moment. Each member of the various " Royal"
academies and societies, the International Society,
the National Portrait Society, the New English
Art Club, the Chelsea Arts Club, and the Senefelder
Club, was invited to offer one work, to be exhibited
and sold at a price fixed by him, the chief part, or
if he so desires the whole, of the proceeds to be
divided equally between the two institutions named.
There is also on view a collection of works by
Belgian artists to be sold in aid of the funds for
the relief of the artists of that country who are now
in straitened circumstances.
We reproduce a tapestry which was exhibited at
the Autumn exhibition of the International Society
at the Grosvenor Gallery, from the design of that
inventive and subtle illustrator, Mr. Edmund Dulac.
The piece was woven by Leo Belmonte, who
possesses a reputation for his restoration work and
care of tapestries in the museums of Europe. The
panel Circe is an exceptional specimen of design
accommodated to the method to be employed.
This is notable in the simplification of foliage and
the expressively outlined animals.
Charming things like fans, with a history and
secrets of their own, their glamour increased by
designs by some great artist—these things, whisper-
ing of idleness and of unthreatened times of peace,
now find themselves, with everything else, used
as advocates for a war fund. With admirable
generosity Mrs. Frank Gibson has recently placed
her collection of eighteenth-century fans in an
exhibition at Messrs. Colnaghi and Obach's held
in aid of the Australian Section of The Queen's
"Work for Women" Fund. The exhibition also
contained, through the generosity of Mr. Edmund
Davis, Mr. Arnold Bennett, and other owners, a
remarkable collection of fans and drawings on silk
by Conder, whose memory has not always been so
well served by those who rush to exhibit fragments
in his name. Some charming fans by Mary Davis,
two exquisite water-colours by Whistler, completed
the first part of Messrs. Colnaghi's exhibition.
But in their main gallery was shown a great work
by Rembrandt, apparently untampered by the
hand of the restorer, vital as in the moment in
which it was executed, from a collection where it