Studio: international art (78.1919)

THE SCULPTURE OF ERNEST COLE

“STUDY OF HEADS”
DRY-POINT BY ERNEST
COLE

(From a print lent by Prof.
Selwyn Image)

sented by famous works in bronze and
marble, and close to them, in the same
gallery, are two small bronze decorative
groups by Ernest Cole—and bravely they
stand the ordeal. These, designed as
parts of stone groups for the new County
Council Hall, were done in 1914, before the
war ; indeed one has had no opportunity
as yet of seeing anything by this young
sculptor since the end of his military
service released him for his art. Since
then, of course, he has resumed work on
the sculptures for the Council Hall, and
been occupied with his designs for the
Kitchener Memorial which has been en-
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trusted to him—a commission of supreme
importance. But the few examples of his
sculptures shown in our reproductions
represent only the early phases of his work.
He could scarcely have been more than
seventeen when he carved the delicate and
lovely marble relief—a posthumous por-
trait of Miss Elizabeth Powell, Mrs.
Laurence Binyon's sister—so tenderly vivid
in presentment. A year later came the
noble bust of the Reverend Stewart Head-
lam, with all the strongly marked character
expressed with fine dignity in the plastic
disposition of the planes, and the sensitive,
if boldly accented, modelling. Like the