DOI issue:
No. 284 (November 1916)
DOI article:Whitley, William Thomas: Arts and crafts at the Royal Academy, [1]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0076
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition
" It may seem," he added, " that I have been
saying hard things of the Royal Academy. Well,
here is a splendid opportunity of proving the
reality of its new grand enthusiasm for the arts
and crafts. Why not lend the noble galleries at
Burlington House to the Society I represent, for
the Exhibition of Arts and Crafts we are going to
hold again next autumn ? I throw out this as a
suggestion."
Crane knew well enough that his suggestion
would not be adopted, or for a moment considered
seriously, for it was unthinkable at that time that
the exclusive and all-powerful Academy would lend
its galleries for an exhibition of the work of another
Society—a Society, too, whose aims and ambitions
were not in agreement with those of the majority
of the Academy's members. But Crane's proposal,
extravagant as it seemed twenty-eight years ago,
was never entirely lost sight of, and the idea of
its adoption in some form has been revived more
LANCASTRIAN LUSTRE VASE.
DESIGNED AND PAINTED BY G. M. FORSYTH
(PILKINGTONS)
Leighton's appreciatory comments were
gratifying, as may be imagined, to the
members of the newly founded Arts and
Crafts Society, who attended the Liverpool
Congress in considerable numbers. Four
of them, Walter Crane, William Morris,
Lewis F. Day and Mr. Cobden-Sanderson,
read papers at the Congress, and the
President of the Arts and Crafts Society
acknowledged—perhaps with a shade of
cynicism—the gracious things that had
been said of the work of himself and his
fellows. Crane's address to the Congress
on the Applied Arts included some criti-
cisms on the tendencies of the teaching of
Burlington House, and he followed these
by thanking Leighton for " at least the
verbal recognition" extended to the arts
and crafts of design and the claim of
those who work in them to the title of
LANCASTRIAN LUSTRE VASE. DESIGNED BY WALTER CRANE.
artlSt. PAINTED BY W. S. MYCOCK (PILKINGTONS)
68
" It may seem," he added, " that I have been
saying hard things of the Royal Academy. Well,
here is a splendid opportunity of proving the
reality of its new grand enthusiasm for the arts
and crafts. Why not lend the noble galleries at
Burlington House to the Society I represent, for
the Exhibition of Arts and Crafts we are going to
hold again next autumn ? I throw out this as a
suggestion."
Crane knew well enough that his suggestion
would not be adopted, or for a moment considered
seriously, for it was unthinkable at that time that
the exclusive and all-powerful Academy would lend
its galleries for an exhibition of the work of another
Society—a Society, too, whose aims and ambitions
were not in agreement with those of the majority
of the Academy's members. But Crane's proposal,
extravagant as it seemed twenty-eight years ago,
was never entirely lost sight of, and the idea of
its adoption in some form has been revived more
LANCASTRIAN LUSTRE VASE.
DESIGNED AND PAINTED BY G. M. FORSYTH
(PILKINGTONS)
Leighton's appreciatory comments were
gratifying, as may be imagined, to the
members of the newly founded Arts and
Crafts Society, who attended the Liverpool
Congress in considerable numbers. Four
of them, Walter Crane, William Morris,
Lewis F. Day and Mr. Cobden-Sanderson,
read papers at the Congress, and the
President of the Arts and Crafts Society
acknowledged—perhaps with a shade of
cynicism—the gracious things that had
been said of the work of himself and his
fellows. Crane's address to the Congress
on the Applied Arts included some criti-
cisms on the tendencies of the teaching of
Burlington House, and he followed these
by thanking Leighton for " at least the
verbal recognition" extended to the arts
and crafts of design and the claim of
those who work in them to the title of
LANCASTRIAN LUSTRE VASE. DESIGNED BY WALTER CRANE.
artlSt. PAINTED BY W. S. MYCOCK (PILKINGTONS)
68