DOI Heft:
No. 275 (February 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21261#0062
Studio-Talk
of the ordinary Country Holiday funds, the number
of youthful visitors was larger than usual, and with
the energetic co-operation of Miss Spiller, Secretary
of the Art Teachers’ Guild, and other ladies, it
proved quite successful. In the recent Christmas
holidays the experiment was renewed on a rather
more extensive scale. A room was set apart for
the special exhibition of objects chosen with a view
to interesting boys and girls ; for the former there
-were casts of the models of Cromwellian soldiers
in Cromwell House, Highgate, objects illustrating
the Napoleonic wars, and other items connected
with warfare at various periods; and for the latter
models of costumes of various periods and nation-
alities, completely furnished dolls’ houses, Princess
Mary’s set of Japanese dolls used in connection
with the Girls’ Festival in Japan, and so forth.
Demonstrations of spinning and weaving and
elementary instruction in the stencilling and block
printing of textiles formed part of the programme,
in the carrying out of which a number of ladies and
gentlemen volunteered their services as guides.
EDINBURGH.—During the later portion
of 1915 the public of Edinburgh had the
opportunity of seeing three Art Exhibi-
tions, two of them to some extent
contemporaneous, and all opening within a short
time of one another. The first in point of time was
unique in that it was the only occasion on which
Scottish sculptors have exhibited together inde-
pendently of painters. The Exhibition was held
in Messrs. Doig, Wilson & Wheatley’s Galleries and
consisted of a collection of small bronzes, mainly
autographs by the cire perdue process, a facsimile
casting from the artist’s wax model. Altogether
nineteen sculptors exhibited, showing 58 works.
The leading work was that by Dr. Macgillivray
whose La Flandre, already illustrated inTHESTUDio,
was such an inspiring feature of the last Scottish
Academy Exhibition. In addition to this Dr.
Macgillivray showed The Wife of Flanders and La
France, symptomatic of the artist’s keen sympathy
with the events that are proceeding in the western
theatre of war. In other exhibits he showed his
“the awakening, 1914”
56
(Society of Scottish Artists)
BY PETEK WISHART
of the ordinary Country Holiday funds, the number
of youthful visitors was larger than usual, and with
the energetic co-operation of Miss Spiller, Secretary
of the Art Teachers’ Guild, and other ladies, it
proved quite successful. In the recent Christmas
holidays the experiment was renewed on a rather
more extensive scale. A room was set apart for
the special exhibition of objects chosen with a view
to interesting boys and girls ; for the former there
-were casts of the models of Cromwellian soldiers
in Cromwell House, Highgate, objects illustrating
the Napoleonic wars, and other items connected
with warfare at various periods; and for the latter
models of costumes of various periods and nation-
alities, completely furnished dolls’ houses, Princess
Mary’s set of Japanese dolls used in connection
with the Girls’ Festival in Japan, and so forth.
Demonstrations of spinning and weaving and
elementary instruction in the stencilling and block
printing of textiles formed part of the programme,
in the carrying out of which a number of ladies and
gentlemen volunteered their services as guides.
EDINBURGH.—During the later portion
of 1915 the public of Edinburgh had the
opportunity of seeing three Art Exhibi-
tions, two of them to some extent
contemporaneous, and all opening within a short
time of one another. The first in point of time was
unique in that it was the only occasion on which
Scottish sculptors have exhibited together inde-
pendently of painters. The Exhibition was held
in Messrs. Doig, Wilson & Wheatley’s Galleries and
consisted of a collection of small bronzes, mainly
autographs by the cire perdue process, a facsimile
casting from the artist’s wax model. Altogether
nineteen sculptors exhibited, showing 58 works.
The leading work was that by Dr. Macgillivray
whose La Flandre, already illustrated inTHESTUDio,
was such an inspiring feature of the last Scottish
Academy Exhibition. In addition to this Dr.
Macgillivray showed The Wife of Flanders and La
France, symptomatic of the artist’s keen sympathy
with the events that are proceeding in the western
theatre of war. In other exhibits he showed his
“the awakening, 1914”
56
(Society of Scottish Artists)
BY PETEK WISHART