DOI issue:
No. 338 (May 1921)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21392#0210
STUDIO-TALK
exemplifies admirably the exercise of the
decorative instinct with which this artist
is endowed. It is this instinct which has
enabled her to introduce the various
symbols and names of places associated
with the famous regiment in such a way
as to play an effective part without de-
tracting from the decorative quality of the
design as a whole, a 0 a e>
Signor Ettore Cosomati, the author of
the two woodcuts reproduced here, exhi-
bited a collection of his prints at the head-
quarters of the Art Workers' Guild in
Bloomsbury last year. A Neapolitan by
birth, he began his art career as an etcher,
and his plates number several hundred.
From etching he turned his attention to
the wood block, and a large number of
prints testify to his accomplishment in this
art. Of late years, and particularly since
he settled down in Zurich, he has been
energetic as a painter of landscapes, still-
life, and portraiture, and during the present
month he is showing a collection of his
pictures at the ^olian Hall in New Bond
Street. Among the honours awarded to
him are a Bronze Medal at the St. Louis
Exposition of 1904, and a Gold Medal at
Barcelona in 1911, and his work is re-
presented in several public galleries on
the Continent. 0000
The general question of the influence
of art in everyday life, and in particular
the bearing of art on our manufactures,
has on many occasions been discussed in
these pages, and we are glad to see that
attention is being called to its importance
at the present moment by the leading
organs of public opinion. In the same
connection a lecture recently delivered
before the Royal Society of Arts by Pro-
fessor William Rothenstein, who some
194
"ZURICH." WOODCUT
BY ETTORE COSOMATI
exemplifies admirably the exercise of the
decorative instinct with which this artist
is endowed. It is this instinct which has
enabled her to introduce the various
symbols and names of places associated
with the famous regiment in such a way
as to play an effective part without de-
tracting from the decorative quality of the
design as a whole, a 0 a e>
Signor Ettore Cosomati, the author of
the two woodcuts reproduced here, exhi-
bited a collection of his prints at the head-
quarters of the Art Workers' Guild in
Bloomsbury last year. A Neapolitan by
birth, he began his art career as an etcher,
and his plates number several hundred.
From etching he turned his attention to
the wood block, and a large number of
prints testify to his accomplishment in this
art. Of late years, and particularly since
he settled down in Zurich, he has been
energetic as a painter of landscapes, still-
life, and portraiture, and during the present
month he is showing a collection of his
pictures at the ^olian Hall in New Bond
Street. Among the honours awarded to
him are a Bronze Medal at the St. Louis
Exposition of 1904, and a Gold Medal at
Barcelona in 1911, and his work is re-
presented in several public galleries on
the Continent. 0000
The general question of the influence
of art in everyday life, and in particular
the bearing of art on our manufactures,
has on many occasions been discussed in
these pages, and we are glad to see that
attention is being called to its importance
at the present moment by the leading
organs of public opinion. In the same
connection a lecture recently delivered
before the Royal Society of Arts by Pro-
fessor William Rothenstein, who some
194
"ZURICH." WOODCUT
BY ETTORE COSOMATI