DOI issue:
No. 276 (March 1916)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21261#0138
Studio- Talk
and mixing medicinal herbs for her medicine-chest.
Carved “ sweetheart spoons ” in walnut bring in a
touch of romance, but a very different picture is
suggested by an ancient “ducking-stool.” Other
phases of old-time life are recalled by the beautiful
old spinning-wheels and the carved press for the
“lynen napperie,” a pillow for lace-making re-
minding us that Flemish refugees taught our an-
cestors this and many other valuable industrial
arts. The old leaden tobacco box and a snuff
box may not have been sacred to the good-
man alone, for in those days women and even
young children smoked—it is even said that
children took pipes to school and that a pause was
allowed for smoking ! B. L. A.
BRADFORD.—Mr. Frederick C. Jones,
whose etching Potato Fields is repro-
duced opposite, was until recently a
student at the City of Bradford School of
Art, where his aptitude for drawing and etching
has been recognised by the award of medals.
The son of a landscape painter, whose pictures
are frequently to be seen on the walls of the
Royal Academy, and whose feeling for landscape
he has inherited, he began to practise etching
while still in his teens, and though still not far
advanced in his twenties, he has accomplished a
considerable amount of work in this branch of art.
Some of his dry-points have been accepted by the
City of Bradford Art Gallery.
NEW YORK.—The lead-pencil drawings
of New York streets and Columbia
University of which reproductions are
here given are by Mr. Louis H. Ruyl,
whose work is familiar to newspaper readers in
America, the artist having for some years made
drawings for several important papers in which
illustration is a special feature, such as the “World,”
the Philadelphia “Press,”and the Boston “Herald.”
His talent in this field of work was recognised by
editors during the Spanish-American War, when
he was sent on behalf of several papers to Cuba.
His predilection, however, is for architecture, and
with a view to studying it under a variety of
aspects for which material was not available in the
New World he made an extensive tour of Europe
three or four years ago, gleaning much valuable
help and inspiration therefrom.
THE LIBRARY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
PENCIL DRAWING BY LOUIS H. RUYL
133
and mixing medicinal herbs for her medicine-chest.
Carved “ sweetheart spoons ” in walnut bring in a
touch of romance, but a very different picture is
suggested by an ancient “ducking-stool.” Other
phases of old-time life are recalled by the beautiful
old spinning-wheels and the carved press for the
“lynen napperie,” a pillow for lace-making re-
minding us that Flemish refugees taught our an-
cestors this and many other valuable industrial
arts. The old leaden tobacco box and a snuff
box may not have been sacred to the good-
man alone, for in those days women and even
young children smoked—it is even said that
children took pipes to school and that a pause was
allowed for smoking ! B. L. A.
BRADFORD.—Mr. Frederick C. Jones,
whose etching Potato Fields is repro-
duced opposite, was until recently a
student at the City of Bradford School of
Art, where his aptitude for drawing and etching
has been recognised by the award of medals.
The son of a landscape painter, whose pictures
are frequently to be seen on the walls of the
Royal Academy, and whose feeling for landscape
he has inherited, he began to practise etching
while still in his teens, and though still not far
advanced in his twenties, he has accomplished a
considerable amount of work in this branch of art.
Some of his dry-points have been accepted by the
City of Bradford Art Gallery.
NEW YORK.—The lead-pencil drawings
of New York streets and Columbia
University of which reproductions are
here given are by Mr. Louis H. Ruyl,
whose work is familiar to newspaper readers in
America, the artist having for some years made
drawings for several important papers in which
illustration is a special feature, such as the “World,”
the Philadelphia “Press,”and the Boston “Herald.”
His talent in this field of work was recognised by
editors during the Spanish-American War, when
he was sent on behalf of several papers to Cuba.
His predilection, however, is for architecture, and
with a view to studying it under a variety of
aspects for which material was not available in the
New World he made an extensive tour of Europe
three or four years ago, gleaning much valuable
help and inspiration therefrom.
THE LIBRARY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
PENCIL DRAWING BY LOUIS H. RUYL
133