DOI Heft:
No. 334 (January 1921)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The Society of Graphic Art
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21392#0036
THE SOCIETY OF GRAPHIC ART
"THE FUGITIVES." BY
D. W. HAWKSLEY, R.I.
come into being. But the list of honorary Society far more than can their exclusively
members, I must confess, gives me pause, academical honorary membership. It is
There are seventeen of them, and every reasonable that this official compliment
one is a member of the Royal Academy, should be offered to the Presidents of
albeit there are graphic artists of fine and the Royal Academy, the Royal Society
vital talent and wide repute outside the of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and
academic fold. Among these honorary the other artistic royal societies; but,
members are, of course, artists of un- even accepting the wholly academic
questioned power and distinction, and character of the honorary members, one
certainly it is well that they should all looks in vain among the two hundred and
belong to a representative British Society twenty-four original members, including
of Graphic Art; but why should they as these do artists of high degree in-their
not associate themselves with it as active various modes of graphic utterance, for
exhibiting members, thus helping to further any of those artists who have identified
its aims i Their individual merits would themselves with the so-called " advanced '
add to the prestige and influence of the movements, artists, as a matter of fact,
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"THE FUGITIVES." BY
D. W. HAWKSLEY, R.I.
come into being. But the list of honorary Society far more than can their exclusively
members, I must confess, gives me pause, academical honorary membership. It is
There are seventeen of them, and every reasonable that this official compliment
one is a member of the Royal Academy, should be offered to the Presidents of
albeit there are graphic artists of fine and the Royal Academy, the Royal Society
vital talent and wide repute outside the of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and
academic fold. Among these honorary the other artistic royal societies; but,
members are, of course, artists of un- even accepting the wholly academic
questioned power and distinction, and character of the honorary members, one
certainly it is well that they should all looks in vain among the two hundred and
belong to a representative British Society twenty-four original members, including
of Graphic Art; but why should they as these do artists of high degree in-their
not associate themselves with it as active various modes of graphic utterance, for
exhibiting members, thus helping to further any of those artists who have identified
its aims i Their individual merits would themselves with the so-called " advanced '
add to the prestige and influence of the movements, artists, as a matter of fact,
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