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#0132
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition
Weaving Company. Fans, lace, and needlework objects, ranging from jewellery, silversmith's work,
of all kinds were shown in the cases, and a few and steel dies, to embroidery and designs for
good pieces of pottery were also to be seen in stained glass. It was in every way creditable to
the room, among them a shapely vase of bluish- Birmingham, and it is a pity that there were no
green exhibited by the Pilkington Tile and Pottery representative groups from such great London
Company, and some large two-handled vases schools of the applied arts as the Central and
designed by A. H. and Louise Powell. Camberwell, whose students, however, gave valuable
The old Water-Colour Gallery at Burlington assistance in the decoration of the galleries.
House was transformed into five rooms, the In the room occupied by the Royal College of
largest of which was devoted, so far as the walls Art the work of the embroidery class alone was
were concerned, chiefly to lithography, designs for represented, and among the many articles shown
stained glass, and drawings of various kinds. In by Mrs. A. H. Christie's clever pupils the sampler
the cases were examples by Miss Gwen White, was very much in evidence, as it was, too, in other
Miss Lucia B. Bergner, Miss Louisa Benjamin, parts of the exhibition. Apparently there is a
Miss Gertrude De la Mare, and others, of that revival of the fashion for the sampler, in executing
work in stained wood which is practised with so which the modern girls show themselves to be as
much success at the Regent Street Polytechnic, skilful as their forebears of bygone centuries,
and of which numerous articles were recently Some of those from the Royal College of Art are
reproduced in this Magazine. In the Lithograph topical, and should be interesting, if preserved, to
Room also were placed two of Mrs. Phoebe future generations. Such are Miss C. N. Crew's
Stabler's capital designs in lead for the adorn- War Sampler (189), and Miss H. Wheeler's
ment of gardens, the little figure of a girl carrying London Town, 1916.
a huge garland of fruit and flowers (91), and the Most of the metal work and jewellery at the
ingeniously contrived Bird Bath (152) which we exhibition was arranged in the small gallery
have already illustrated. Some of the smaller familiar to visitors to the Royal Academy as the
apartments on either side of this room were occu- Black and White Room. Here was a fine group
pied by the Royal College of Art and the Birming- of enamels by Mr. Harold Stabler, small decora-
ham Municipal School of Art, the only institutions tive plaques remarkable for originality of design
of this kind that showed collective exhibits. The as well as for their colour. In a case close by was
Birmingham group contained more than 120 the casket of silver, gold, and enamel made by the
SIDEBOARD IN ENGLISH WALNUT AND EBONY, DESIGNED BY ERNEST W. GIMSON, EXECUTED BY E. SMITH AND H. DAVOLL
(Lent by Allan Tangye, Esq.)
Weaving Company. Fans, lace, and needlework objects, ranging from jewellery, silversmith's work,
of all kinds were shown in the cases, and a few and steel dies, to embroidery and designs for
good pieces of pottery were also to be seen in stained glass. It was in every way creditable to
the room, among them a shapely vase of bluish- Birmingham, and it is a pity that there were no
green exhibited by the Pilkington Tile and Pottery representative groups from such great London
Company, and some large two-handled vases schools of the applied arts as the Central and
designed by A. H. and Louise Powell. Camberwell, whose students, however, gave valuable
The old Water-Colour Gallery at Burlington assistance in the decoration of the galleries.
House was transformed into five rooms, the In the room occupied by the Royal College of
largest of which was devoted, so far as the walls Art the work of the embroidery class alone was
were concerned, chiefly to lithography, designs for represented, and among the many articles shown
stained glass, and drawings of various kinds. In by Mrs. A. H. Christie's clever pupils the sampler
the cases were examples by Miss Gwen White, was very much in evidence, as it was, too, in other
Miss Lucia B. Bergner, Miss Louisa Benjamin, parts of the exhibition. Apparently there is a
Miss Gertrude De la Mare, and others, of that revival of the fashion for the sampler, in executing
work in stained wood which is practised with so which the modern girls show themselves to be as
much success at the Regent Street Polytechnic, skilful as their forebears of bygone centuries,
and of which numerous articles were recently Some of those from the Royal College of Art are
reproduced in this Magazine. In the Lithograph topical, and should be interesting, if preserved, to
Room also were placed two of Mrs. Phoebe future generations. Such are Miss C. N. Crew's
Stabler's capital designs in lead for the adorn- War Sampler (189), and Miss H. Wheeler's
ment of gardens, the little figure of a girl carrying London Town, 1916.
a huge garland of fruit and flowers (91), and the Most of the metal work and jewellery at the
ingeniously contrived Bird Bath (152) which we exhibition was arranged in the small gallery
have already illustrated. Some of the smaller familiar to visitors to the Royal Academy as the
apartments on either side of this room were occu- Black and White Room. Here was a fine group
pied by the Royal College of Art and the Birming- of enamels by Mr. Harold Stabler, small decora-
ham Municipal School of Art, the only institutions tive plaques remarkable for originality of design
of this kind that showed collective exhibits. The as well as for their colour. In a case close by was
Birmingham group contained more than 120 the casket of silver, gold, and enamel made by the
SIDEBOARD IN ENGLISH WALNUT AND EBONY, DESIGNED BY ERNEST W. GIMSON, EXECUTED BY E. SMITH AND H. DAVOLL
(Lent by Allan Tangye, Esq.)