DOI Heft:
No. 337 (April 1921)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21392#0176
STUDIO-TALK
NAME SIGN IN PIERCED BRASS
WITH DURALUMIN BACKING
EXECUTED BY THE BIRMING-
HAM GUILD FOR MESSRS.
GLYN AND CO., LONDON
series of paintings' executed by con-
temporary artists for the walls of the
Royal Exchange. It was presented). by
the Royal Exchange Assurance in com-
memoration of the bi-centenary of their
incorporation (1720) and was unveiled
by the Lord Mayor in February. 0 a
Two additions to the ranks of the Royal
Academicians were made at a General
Assembly held on March 1, the artists
accorded this distinction being Sir John
Lavery, painter, who had been an Associate
since 1911, and Mr. William Strang, who
was elected an Associate Engraver in 1906
and has now been promoted in the same
category. Mr. Strang is President of the
International Society of Sculptors, Painters,
and Gravers. Mons. Besnard was at the
same time elected Honorary Foreign Royal
Academician. e> a a a 0
BIRMINGHAM—The metal working
industry has been centred in Birm-
ingham for many centuries—it is said,
indeed, that many of those relics of hoary
antiquity (!) which travellers bring back as
curios from the ancient seats of civiliza-
160
tion in the East have had their origin
in the Midland metropolis, but as to
that, of course, it is with modern Birm-
ingham that the secret lies, and any obscure
reputation her metal craftsmen may have
thus gained, certainly does not detract
from her world-wide fame as the principal
seat of one of our most important in-
dustries. In days gone by, before machine
production became general, the metal
workers of Birmingham were celebrated
for their skill of hand and alertness of
vision, and though so far as the bulk of
her production is concerned the hand
has largely given place to the machine,
the old traditions of craftsmanship are
still kept alive and find an outlet in the
best class of work. And nowhere are they
followed and respected more than in the
workshops of the Birmingham Guild,
which, established over 25 years ago
SHIP IN BRONZE, FORMING
PART OF MEMORIAL FOR THE
WHITE STAR SHIPPING COM-
PANY'S OFFICES IN LONDON
EXECUTED BY THE BIRMING-
HAM GUILD
NAME SIGN IN PIERCED BRASS
WITH DURALUMIN BACKING
EXECUTED BY THE BIRMING-
HAM GUILD FOR MESSRS.
GLYN AND CO., LONDON
series of paintings' executed by con-
temporary artists for the walls of the
Royal Exchange. It was presented). by
the Royal Exchange Assurance in com-
memoration of the bi-centenary of their
incorporation (1720) and was unveiled
by the Lord Mayor in February. 0 a
Two additions to the ranks of the Royal
Academicians were made at a General
Assembly held on March 1, the artists
accorded this distinction being Sir John
Lavery, painter, who had been an Associate
since 1911, and Mr. William Strang, who
was elected an Associate Engraver in 1906
and has now been promoted in the same
category. Mr. Strang is President of the
International Society of Sculptors, Painters,
and Gravers. Mons. Besnard was at the
same time elected Honorary Foreign Royal
Academician. e> a a a 0
BIRMINGHAM—The metal working
industry has been centred in Birm-
ingham for many centuries—it is said,
indeed, that many of those relics of hoary
antiquity (!) which travellers bring back as
curios from the ancient seats of civiliza-
160
tion in the East have had their origin
in the Midland metropolis, but as to
that, of course, it is with modern Birm-
ingham that the secret lies, and any obscure
reputation her metal craftsmen may have
thus gained, certainly does not detract
from her world-wide fame as the principal
seat of one of our most important in-
dustries. In days gone by, before machine
production became general, the metal
workers of Birmingham were celebrated
for their skill of hand and alertness of
vision, and though so far as the bulk of
her production is concerned the hand
has largely given place to the machine,
the old traditions of craftsmanship are
still kept alive and find an outlet in the
best class of work. And nowhere are they
followed and respected more than in the
workshops of the Birmingham Guild,
which, established over 25 years ago
SHIP IN BRONZE, FORMING
PART OF MEMORIAL FOR THE
WHITE STAR SHIPPING COM-
PANY'S OFFICES IN LONDON
EXECUTED BY THE BIRMING-
HAM GUILD