Studio: international art (67.1916)

Studio-Talk

should have found in the
recent exhibition few other
than genuine specimens of
the past along with a number
of rare examples of present-
day work was therefore rather
surprising.

Throughout the various
exhibits of elementary and
advanced pupils were to be
found many charming designs
and essays in craftsmanship
in which the character and
personality of the worker had
not been lost in extreme
technicalities, and with them

superiority in comparison
with similar Continental
displays. That such an ex-
hibition should have been
organised and held in
Glasgow is especially in-
teresting when one recalls
the energetic enthusiasm
shown by Mrs. Newbery as
long ago as 1894 by her
formation of an embroidery
class when the school was
then situated in less palatial
buildings in 3 Rose Street.
In the best work shown by
past and present pupils
her spirited influence in
design, colour and thought
was clearly manifest as the
dominant note. Design,
in those early days in
Glasgow, had to contend
with much commercial
opposition, and with few
exceptions no enterprise
was shown by firms whose
status could easily have
withstood the lack of en-
couragement—one notable
exception being the firm of
Wylie & Lockhead, whose
staff of designers were
free to display an untram-
melled interest in any
progressive decorative
movement. That one

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