DOI Heft:
No. 340 (July 1921)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0052
STUDIO-TALK
that remarkable north country master,
Old Cranke. The city's more modern
possessions carry on the history through
the Pre-Raphaelites (in which school
Liverpool is strong, being the home of
Rossetti's Dante's Dream, Millais' Lorenzo
and Isabella," and other notable works) to
the most recent purchases from the
Autumn Exhibitions. A splendid educa-
tion for a big commercial city's population,
and a matter upon which the Arts Com-
mittee may be congratulated. J. W. S.
EDINBURGH. — Lovers of animal
paintings, especially those of bird life,
found much to attract them in an exhibition
of the work of Miss Mabel Dawson, R.S.W.,
held earlier this year in the galleries of the
Petit Salon, Edinburgh. Water colour
deftly intermingled with body colour is the
medium she employs with marked ability,
notably in her pictures of pigeons and
ducks, which are uncommonly interesting.
The quaint characteristics, too, of her sub-
jects are ofttimes humorously as well as
lovingly observed, while her fascinating
titles give a certain clue to the joyous in-
terest she experiences and charmingly ex-
presses. The accompanying illustration of A
Little Grey Nun represents but one amongst
many drawings, all of which are personal
and equally captivating. E. A. T.
The poster designs reproduced on the
opposite page are the work of Mr. M. R.
Caird and Mr. W. R. Lawson, two young
artists who have established a studio in
Edinburgh and whose talent has already
elicited appreciation from advertisers who
recognise that, while a poster must attract
attention, it may do so through qualities of
design and fitness rather than through
clamour or vulgarity. The simplicity of
these designs is one of their most attractive
features, for the ordinary poster is such a
complex of irrelevant matter that its
message is either not seen or soon for-
gotten. The poster of the starving Serbian
mother made an almost irresistible claim in
support of one of the Serbian Relief Funds
and formed one of the outstanding posters
produced during the war. R. B,
that remarkable north country master,
Old Cranke. The city's more modern
possessions carry on the history through
the Pre-Raphaelites (in which school
Liverpool is strong, being the home of
Rossetti's Dante's Dream, Millais' Lorenzo
and Isabella," and other notable works) to
the most recent purchases from the
Autumn Exhibitions. A splendid educa-
tion for a big commercial city's population,
and a matter upon which the Arts Com-
mittee may be congratulated. J. W. S.
EDINBURGH. — Lovers of animal
paintings, especially those of bird life,
found much to attract them in an exhibition
of the work of Miss Mabel Dawson, R.S.W.,
held earlier this year in the galleries of the
Petit Salon, Edinburgh. Water colour
deftly intermingled with body colour is the
medium she employs with marked ability,
notably in her pictures of pigeons and
ducks, which are uncommonly interesting.
The quaint characteristics, too, of her sub-
jects are ofttimes humorously as well as
lovingly observed, while her fascinating
titles give a certain clue to the joyous in-
terest she experiences and charmingly ex-
presses. The accompanying illustration of A
Little Grey Nun represents but one amongst
many drawings, all of which are personal
and equally captivating. E. A. T.
The poster designs reproduced on the
opposite page are the work of Mr. M. R.
Caird and Mr. W. R. Lawson, two young
artists who have established a studio in
Edinburgh and whose talent has already
elicited appreciation from advertisers who
recognise that, while a poster must attract
attention, it may do so through qualities of
design and fitness rather than through
clamour or vulgarity. The simplicity of
these designs is one of their most attractive
features, for the ordinary poster is such a
complex of irrelevant matter that its
message is either not seen or soon for-
gotten. The poster of the starving Serbian
mother made an almost irresistible claim in
support of one of the Serbian Relief Funds
and formed one of the outstanding posters
produced during the war. R. B,