DOI article:
Wall tablets and memorials by British sculptors
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JVall Tablets and Memorials
MARBLE RELIEF, LIFE SIZE, AT GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY, WASHINGTON, CONNNECTICUT. BY A BERTRAM PEGRAM
verges on the commonplace and the elaboration
that would be out of keeping with the monumental
purpose of his performance.
^_That is why the really successful small memorial
of the wall tablet type must be accounted an artistic
achievement of considerable importance. It has
to be undertaken in a spirit of real restraint and it
must be carried through from beginning to end with
unceasing watchfulness lest at any moment it should
get decoratively out of hand. Not only the main
design but every detail to the very smallest must
receive the most exact attention and the whole
thing must be built up part by part with a taste and
judgment that need to be kept always in the most
perfect balance. An initial mistake, apparently
trivial enough, has a way of becoming accentuated
as the work progresses towards completion, and a
well-conceived intention can easily be robbed of
half its significance by an error in the application
of the accessories which are added to make it more
convincing; and again, as the scale of the work is
small, there must be delicacy and sensitiveness in
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CENTRE PANEL OF MEMORIAL IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY TO THE BANDSMEN WHO
WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC. BY PAUL R. MONTFORD
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MARBLE RELIEF, LIFE SIZE, AT GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY, WASHINGTON, CONNNECTICUT. BY A BERTRAM PEGRAM
verges on the commonplace and the elaboration
that would be out of keeping with the monumental
purpose of his performance.
^_That is why the really successful small memorial
of the wall tablet type must be accounted an artistic
achievement of considerable importance. It has
to be undertaken in a spirit of real restraint and it
must be carried through from beginning to end with
unceasing watchfulness lest at any moment it should
get decoratively out of hand. Not only the main
design but every detail to the very smallest must
receive the most exact attention and the whole
thing must be built up part by part with a taste and
judgment that need to be kept always in the most
perfect balance. An initial mistake, apparently
trivial enough, has a way of becoming accentuated
as the work progresses towards completion, and a
well-conceived intention can easily be robbed of
half its significance by an error in the application
of the accessories which are added to make it more
convincing; and again, as the scale of the work is
small, there must be delicacy and sensitiveness in
■ :
vsrtovW.>.1!. ,
OOlNik
»/.V - ... ■;
CENTRE PANEL OF MEMORIAL IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY TO THE BANDSMEN WHO
WENT DOWN WITH THE TITANIC. BY PAUL R. MONTFORD
191