DOI Heft:
No. 287 (February 1917)
DOI Artikel:Whitley, William Thomas: Arts and crafts at the Royal Academy, [4]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24576#0035
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition
ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR EMBROIDERY, “THE APPLE TREE.” BY WILLIAM MORRIS
{By courtesy of Messrs. Morris and Co., Ltd.)
(18) or Avalon as the artist himself called it.
This picture occupied his thoughts and atten-
tion for many years, and was still unfinished at
the time of his death. It represents King Arthur
sleeping in the happy Isle of Avalon :
Where falls not hail, or rain or any snow,
Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies
Deep meadow’d, happy, fair with orchard lawns
And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea;
to which, after his last battle, he was carried
in the mystic barge by the three queens, who
with their attendants guard and watch over
him until the time when he shall awake from
his long slumber and come into his own again.
The beautiful tapestry which Burne-Jones de-
signed for the Morris firm was destroyed in the
hre at the Brussels Exhibition of 1910.
From the little group of artists and craftsmen
of the sixties whose work was shown in the
Retrospective Room has developed the Arts and
Crafts Exhibition Society, by which much has
been accomplished and much is being done.
With the new developments initiated at the
recent exhibition at Burlington House still
greater possibilities in the way of influencing
and improving public
taste lie before the
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Society, whose utmost
efforts will no doubt be
directed towards these
desirable ends. But
artists are not always
men of business, and if
the Arts and Crafts move-
ment grows in range and
strength as its friends
desire, a Warington
Taylor will be as neces-
sary to the Society as it
was to the firm of Morris,
Marshall, Faulkner and
Co. A permanent official
accustomed to the
management of exhibi-
tions should be ap-
pointed, from whom
information could be
readily and speedily ob-
tained. It would then be
impossible for the repre-
sentatives of a journal
whose attitude towards
the Arts and Crafts
Society has always been wholly sympathetic
to have to wait more than three weeks for
a reply to one urgent communication, and in
the case of others to receive no answer of any
kind. W. T. Whitley.
Third Red Cross Art Sale at Christie’s.
For the third year in succession the British Red
Cross Society and the Order of St. John are
appealing to the public to help them in making
a success of a great art sale by Messrs. Christie,
who have again generously promised to under-
take the work free of all remuneration. The
sale is fixed for the end of March and it is hoped
that contributions will be sent without delay ;
but in view of the serious depletion of Messrs.
Christie’s staff through the war, and their
inability to allocate to the sale more than a
limited number of days, the joint War Com-
mittee of the two institutions ask that bene-
factors should aim at sending objects of high
individual quality and value, even if few in
number. All gifts should be sent to the Red
Cross Sale Depot, 48 Pall Mall, Fondon, S.W.
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ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR EMBROIDERY, “THE APPLE TREE.” BY WILLIAM MORRIS
{By courtesy of Messrs. Morris and Co., Ltd.)
(18) or Avalon as the artist himself called it.
This picture occupied his thoughts and atten-
tion for many years, and was still unfinished at
the time of his death. It represents King Arthur
sleeping in the happy Isle of Avalon :
Where falls not hail, or rain or any snow,
Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies
Deep meadow’d, happy, fair with orchard lawns
And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea;
to which, after his last battle, he was carried
in the mystic barge by the three queens, who
with their attendants guard and watch over
him until the time when he shall awake from
his long slumber and come into his own again.
The beautiful tapestry which Burne-Jones de-
signed for the Morris firm was destroyed in the
hre at the Brussels Exhibition of 1910.
From the little group of artists and craftsmen
of the sixties whose work was shown in the
Retrospective Room has developed the Arts and
Crafts Exhibition Society, by which much has
been accomplished and much is being done.
With the new developments initiated at the
recent exhibition at Burlington House still
greater possibilities in the way of influencing
and improving public
taste lie before the
3
Society, whose utmost
efforts will no doubt be
directed towards these
desirable ends. But
artists are not always
men of business, and if
the Arts and Crafts move-
ment grows in range and
strength as its friends
desire, a Warington
Taylor will be as neces-
sary to the Society as it
was to the firm of Morris,
Marshall, Faulkner and
Co. A permanent official
accustomed to the
management of exhibi-
tions should be ap-
pointed, from whom
information could be
readily and speedily ob-
tained. It would then be
impossible for the repre-
sentatives of a journal
whose attitude towards
the Arts and Crafts
Society has always been wholly sympathetic
to have to wait more than three weeks for
a reply to one urgent communication, and in
the case of others to receive no answer of any
kind. W. T. Whitley.
Third Red Cross Art Sale at Christie’s.
For the third year in succession the British Red
Cross Society and the Order of St. John are
appealing to the public to help them in making
a success of a great art sale by Messrs. Christie,
who have again generously promised to under-
take the work free of all remuneration. The
sale is fixed for the end of March and it is hoped
that contributions will be sent without delay ;
but in view of the serious depletion of Messrs.
Christie’s staff through the war, and their
inability to allocate to the sale more than a
limited number of days, the joint War Com-
mittee of the two institutions ask that bene-
factors should aim at sending objects of high
individual quality and value, even if few in
number. All gifts should be sent to the Red
Cross Sale Depot, 48 Pall Mall, Fondon, S.W.
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