Studio: international art (65.1915)

Studio-Talk

Impressions of Spain, 1914. Gifted with a facility
of handling and pleasant sense of colour he renders
the sunny scenes of Italy and Spain with much
vivacity and brilliance. The examples gathered
together here were somewhat unequal in merit, as
is inevitable in } an exhibition comprising one
hundred and twenty-five pictures, and for the most
part the early works com-
pared favourably with
those more recently exe-
cuted. Of the Spanish
sketches, Seville: the
Guadalquivir and Tria?ia
was one of the best, and
a good work was a draw-
ing in pen and ink and
wash, Aqueduct and Walls
of the Alhambra.

whom were represented by excellent furniture, the
Artificers’ Guild, and Mr. and Mrs. Stabler, who
exhibited some enamels and statuettes. Miss D.
Brooke-Clarke sent a case of jewellery, good in
design and craftsmanship ; and very interesting was
the furniture for a dining-room designed simply
and effectively by Mr. Fred Rowntree and carried
out in the Hampshire
House Workshops. Men-
tion should also be made
of some attractive painted
frames by Lola Frampton.
A section of pictures con-
tained contributions by
well-known artists, and
some beautiful stained
glass by Mr. Christopher
Whall and Mr. Edward
Woore was one of the best
features of the exhibition.

An exhibition of Eng-
lish and Belgian work by
craftsmen and artists in
Hammersmith, held in
June at the Hampshire
House Club, Hampshire
Hog Lane, included some
examples emanating from
the Hampshire House
workshops. These “ have
been established for carry-
ing on handicrafts in a
group of small workshops,
giving opportunity to men,
women, and apprentices
to master a craft of their
own choosing. . . . Each
workshop is under the
direction of an experi-
enced master craftsman,
and the goods being sold
direct from the workshop
the expensive agency of the
middleman is avoided.”

This scheme, worthy of “war”

all encouragement, may,

we trust, achieve much success, started as it has
been in quite the right milieu. Since the time of
Morris, Hammersmith has always contained a colony
of sincere artists and craftsmen, and in this exhi-
bition, besides productions of the workshops and
by some Belgian craftsmen, were to be seen con-
tributions by such well-known artists as Mr. A.
Romney Green and Mr. C. Spooner, both of
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The Design and Indus-
tries Association, which
held its first meeting on
May 19, aims at the im-
provement of British
industry through the co-
operation of the manu-
facturer, the designer, and
the distributer; by en-
couraging a more vital
interest in design in its
widest sense it seeks to
augment that technical
excellence which is a
characteristic of British
products. As its pro-
moters point out, modern
industrial methods and
the great possibilities in-
herent in the machine,
demand the best artistic
no less than the best
by j. Davidson mechanical and scientific

abilities. Recognition of
that requirement was the motive which led to the
formation of the Deutscher Werkbund, about
which a good deal has been heard lately, and of
which we gave an account five years ago in The
Studio Year Book of Decorative Art for 1910, and
if the Design and Industries Association proves as
energetic as that organisation it will have amply
justified its existence.