DOI Heft:
No. 285 (December 1916)
DOI Artikel:Whitley, William Thomas: Arts and crafts at the Royal Academy, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0130
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition
!THE POND" BY G. W. LAMBERT
ARTS AND CRAFTS AT THE
ROYAL ACADEMY.
L {Second Article.')
In spite of an unfortunate beginning, the eleventh
exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society has been
a pronounced success, and great credit is due to
the President and the members who worked with
him for overcoming the difficulties caused by want
of time and the unavoidable lack of labour. The
rooms at Burlington House, in a state of chaos
at the Press view, were by unremitting energy
brought in a few days to order and completeness,
and the Society was rewarded by what has probably
been a record attendance of visitors curious to see
Mr. Wilson's interesting scheme of reconstruction
and decoration, and the thousand and one objects
of art and industry displayed on all sides in the
galleries.
The exhibition was a large one, and the catalogue
entries were twice as numerous at least as at the
first exhibition of 1888, where Burne-Jones, who
at the beginning had little hope of the success of
the scheme, found "some beautiful things, de-
lightful to look at." There were beautiful things
120
also at Burlington House last month, but the
character of the exhibitions of 1888 and 1916 was
curiously different. In 1888 there was an over-
whelming display of wall papers, and a quantity
of that work in copper, brass, and wrought iron,
the making of which was a favourite pastime of
the amateur of a generation ago. But there was
no jewellery in the first exhibition, and only one
example of writing and illumination, and the
silversmith's work was negligible. Furniture was
represented almost entirely by two or three
examples from the workshops of Morris, who was,
too, almost the only exhibitor of textiles.
Textiles were well represented at Burlington
House, to which the firm founded by Morris con-
tributed some attractive tapestries, as well as two
looms, which when at work were always sur-
rounded by a small crowd. Among many beautiful
fabrics shown in this room should be mentioned
the damask in purple and dull gold (82), and the
"Orchard" tapestry (78) shown by Mr. Edmund
Hunter; the hand-woven silk bedspread in rose
and gold by Miss Inez E. Skrine (5), and the
hand-woven fabric (27) designed by Mr. Reginald
Warner and exhibited by the Gainsborough Silk
!THE POND" BY G. W. LAMBERT
ARTS AND CRAFTS AT THE
ROYAL ACADEMY.
L {Second Article.')
In spite of an unfortunate beginning, the eleventh
exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society has been
a pronounced success, and great credit is due to
the President and the members who worked with
him for overcoming the difficulties caused by want
of time and the unavoidable lack of labour. The
rooms at Burlington House, in a state of chaos
at the Press view, were by unremitting energy
brought in a few days to order and completeness,
and the Society was rewarded by what has probably
been a record attendance of visitors curious to see
Mr. Wilson's interesting scheme of reconstruction
and decoration, and the thousand and one objects
of art and industry displayed on all sides in the
galleries.
The exhibition was a large one, and the catalogue
entries were twice as numerous at least as at the
first exhibition of 1888, where Burne-Jones, who
at the beginning had little hope of the success of
the scheme, found "some beautiful things, de-
lightful to look at." There were beautiful things
120
also at Burlington House last month, but the
character of the exhibitions of 1888 and 1916 was
curiously different. In 1888 there was an over-
whelming display of wall papers, and a quantity
of that work in copper, brass, and wrought iron,
the making of which was a favourite pastime of
the amateur of a generation ago. But there was
no jewellery in the first exhibition, and only one
example of writing and illumination, and the
silversmith's work was negligible. Furniture was
represented almost entirely by two or three
examples from the workshops of Morris, who was,
too, almost the only exhibitor of textiles.
Textiles were well represented at Burlington
House, to which the firm founded by Morris con-
tributed some attractive tapestries, as well as two
looms, which when at work were always sur-
rounded by a small crowd. Among many beautiful
fabrics shown in this room should be mentioned
the damask in purple and dull gold (82), and the
"Orchard" tapestry (78) shown by Mr. Edmund
Hunter; the hand-woven silk bedspread in rose
and gold by Miss Inez E. Skrine (5), and the
hand-woven fabric (27) designed by Mr. Reginald
Warner and exhibited by the Gainsborough Silk